Trump Falling Behind on Filling Empty Judge Seats

[longknife]

Although he’s nominated 113 federal judges, Senators have stalled at every point. There were 104 vacancies when he took office but 118 today. And a lot of them are considered “emergency vacancies” due to massive case loads.

“These vacancies have jumped from an already historically high number of vacancies,” Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, told LifeZette. “It’s stunning.”

Severino, whose organization advocates for the appointment of originalist judges, told LifeZette that Democrats have plenty of opportunities to obstruct even without the filibuster and have not been shy about using them.

“They’ve been able to grind this down … They’ve been able to dramatically slow the process,” she said.

Federal judgeships have always been political, often paybacks for campaign donations. And what is amazing [not included in the article] is that nowhere does a law say that a judge has to be a lawyer – a member of a bar association. We have one Supreme Court Justice who has never, ever heard a case in a lower court as a judge.

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[Dan Stubbs]

Although he’s nominated 113 federal judges, Senators have stalled at every point. There were 104 vacancies when he took office but 118 today. And a lot of them are considered “emergency vacancies” due to massive case loads.

“These vacancies have jumped from an already historically high number of vacancies,” Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, told LifeZette. “It’s stunning.”

Severino, whose organization advocates for the appointment of originalist judges, told LifeZette that Democrats have plenty of opportunities to obstruct even without the filibuster and have not been shy about using them.

“They’ve been able to grind this down … They’ve been able to dramatically slow the process,” she said.

Federal judgeships have always been political, often paybacks for campaign donations. And what is amazing [not included in the article] is that nowhere does a law say that a judge has to be a lawyer – a member of a bar association. We have one Supreme Court Justice who has never, ever heard a case in a lower court as a judge.

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As you know Alabama has one Democrat in the office of Senator...C Jones. So far he likes his job and is voting yea on everyone of the Presidents Judges...like I say he likes his job.