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| POTUS nominates 51 judges at once, enough to fill one-third of all court vacancies |
| 2019-01-25 |
| [Wash Examiner] In a sweeping move to further influence federal courts with conservative picks, President Trump on Wednesday renominated 51 judges who saw no action in the last Congress. The list showed 37 nominees to district courts, nine to circuit courts, two each to the International Trade and Federal Claims courts, and one to the Military Commission Review. One, Naomi Rao, was picked to replace the opening left when federal appeals court Judge Brett Kavanaugh won a seat on the Supreme Court. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said in a statement, "I truly appreciate the prompt attention President Trump and his White House team have shown to judicial nominations. I also appreciate the list of 51 impressive judicial nominations to fulfill the Senate’s constitutional role in advice and consent." He added that his panel will try to "confirm as many as possible, as soon as possible." The president is already on a historic pace to change the courts and fill vacancies with conservative picks. According to one tally, he has put 30 judges on the United States courts of appeals and 53 judges for the United States district courts. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #2 Renominate all 70 and tell the Senators, since they don't seem to have anything else to do (Shut Down, ehh?), start the hearings. |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-01-25 19:18 |
| #1 70 nominations were returned after the last Congress ended. All Trump has done is renominate 51 of them. We still have something like 140 vacancies -- more than when Trump first took office. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2019-01-25 10:32 |