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President Biden Names Seventh Round of Judicial Nominees

These choices also continue to fulfill the President’s promise to ensure that the nation’s courts reflect the diversity that is one of our greatest assets as a country — both in terms of personal and professional backgrounds.

For example, this slate includes:

Three new Latino judicial nominees with diverse professional experiences.

A nominee who would be the first Korean-American woman to serve as a federal appellate judge and the second AAPI woman to serve on the Ninth Circuit from California.

A nominee who would be the first Black woman to serve on the Ninth Circuit from California, as well as the second Black woman to ever serve on the Ninth Circuit.

A nominee who would be the only active Black woman district court judge in any of California’s four federal district courts.

This is President Biden’s seventh round of nominees for federal judicial positions, bringing the number of announced federal judicial nominees to 43.
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Senate confirms Vermont’s Beth Robinson to Second Circuit Court of Appeals

Robinson’s confirmation makes history. She will be the first openly LGBTQ+ woman to serve on a federal appellate court. She is well-known for her advocacy to legalize same-sex marriage in Vermont years before it was legal nationwide — a legacy that her supporters tout as evidence of her commitment to equal rights, but her detractors have used to question her capability as an impartial judge.

In a Monday night statement following the Senate vote, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., called Robinson’s confirmation “momentous.”

In 2000, Robinson famously served as co-counsel in Baker v. State of Vermont, a case that resulted in the country’s first civil union law in 2000. As an advocate, she then led the Vermont Freedom to Marry Task Force, which successfully lobbied for the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2009.
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CNN)The US Senate overnight confirmed more than three dozen of President Joe Biden's nominees to ambassador posts, ending a months-long Republican-led blockade on quick consideration of the diplomatic nominations.

Rahm Emanuel, the former mayor of Chicago and White House chief of staff for President Barack Obama, was confirmed early Saturday as the US ambassador to Japan. The vote was 48-21, with 31 senators not voting.

Progressive Democrats had objected to Emanuel's nomination, citing his record as Chicago mayor, specifically his handling of the 2014 police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. Three Democratic senators -- Elizabeth Warren, Ed Markey and Jeff Merkley -- voted against Emanuel's confirmation.

Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz had for months refused to allow quick confirmation on diplomatic nominations to protest the Biden administration's policy on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. Cruz wants the administration to toughen its policy on the major pipeline that will deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea, arguing that the pipeline would strengthen Russia and make Germany beholden to the country. Some Republican senators, however, had expressed concern that the hold up on the nominations would impact America's diplomacy and influence around the world.
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Trumpers and Republicans haven't caught on to this yet... even many Democrats. We have to hold the Senate in 2022 and keep this going.




Senate Confirms Biden’s 40th Judge, Tying a Reagan-Era Record
President Biden saw more of his judicial nominees confirmed in his first year than any president since Ronald Reagan. The Senate confirmed 18 federal judges in Donald Trump’s first year.
President Biden has set a rapid pace in filling vacancies on the federal bench.
By Catie Edmondson Dec. 18, 2021 Updated 6:49 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed President Biden’s 40th federal judicial nominee early on Saturday morning, the most judges confirmed in a president’s first year in the last 40 years. In a pre-dawn mad dash before leaving Washington for the holidays, lawmakers confirmed 10 district court judges, bringing the year-end total to 40 and notching an achievement not seen since former President Ronald Reagan. It underscored how the White House has set a rapid pace in filling vacancies on the federal bench, even besting the records set by the Trump administration, which maintained a laser focus on reshaping the judiciary.
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The Senate confirmed 18 circuit and district court judges in President Donald J. Trump’s first year in office, and 12 in President Barack Obama’s inaugural year. Mr. Biden, a former chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, pledged to counter the Trump era’s aggressive efforts to transform the judiciary with young right-wing judges who are mostly white and male. Since January, the president has sent the Senate an extraordinarily diverse roster of nominees, both in terms of ethnic background and professional experience. Many of the nominees confirmed were “firsts” — including the first Muslim American federal judge and the first openly lesbian judge to serve on any federal circuit court. And Mr. Biden’s administration has also taken pains to nominate not just corporate attorneys, but public defenders and civil rights attorneys.

“Because of the commitment to restoring the federal judiciary by President Biden and Senate Democrats,” said Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the majority leader, “it is no longer a bench that is simply prosecutors, partners in large law firms — but rather many, many others from walks of life with different and needed perspectives on the federal bench, such as public defenders, civil rights lawyers, election experts and more.” Mr. Biden and Mr. Schumer “not only shepherded more confirmations in Biden’s first year than any president in recent history; they have led a revolution in the way Democrats think about who should serve as judges by selecting lawyers who have represented everyday people,” said Christopher Kang, the chief counsel of Demand Justice, a progressive advocacy group that was created after the 2016 presidential election and the Republican stonewalling of Mr. Obama’s final Supreme Court nominee.

The rapid speed of confirmations this year came despite an evenly divided Senate, with Vice President Kamala Harris serving as a tiebreaker. But like Mr. Biden’s legislative agenda, his judicial agenda is also facing challenges of its own. Democrats have overwhelmingly racked up judicial victories in states represented by two Democratic senators. They are facing stronger headwinds in states represented by at least one Republican senator. Tennessee Republicans have already raised objections to Mr. Biden’s pick for an influential appeals court there, the administration’s first judicial nominee from a state represented by two Republican senators. Beyond Republican-led efforts to slow-walk such nominees, Mr. Biden is also facing limited appellate vacancies from Republican appointees — which means he has little room to reshape the ideological balance of the courts. Of the appellate nominees Mr. Biden has named, only three of 10 would replace Republican appointees.

At the moment, the vacancies Mr. Biden is facing in the appeals courts are those created by Democratic appointees, said Russell Wheeler, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies the federal courts. “So far, the percentage of Republican appointees on the court of appeals is almost unchanged from when Biden took office,” he said. The greatest threat the administration’s effort may face, however, is the risk of losing control of the Senate in the 2022 midterm elections. Mr. Wheeler noted that Mr. Trump had nominated 54 circuit court judges over four years with a Republican-controlled Senate. “If Biden loses the Senate, it’s not going to be talking about ‘How many appointees,’” Mr. Wheeler said. “It’s going to be talking about whether there’s going to be any at all.” In total, Mr. Biden has sent 71 judicial nominees to the Senate for consideration.
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Jennifer Sung recently was confirmed to the 9th. Barely.

In 2018, she signed a letter in opposition to Kavanaugh's SCOTUS nomination that said he was an "intellectually and morally bankrupt ideologue," and people would die if he was confirmed. Sung's own nomination stalled in committee, so the Democrats moved the nomination out of committee by bringing a motion in the full Senate, which prevailed only by virtue of the veep's tie-breaking vote. And Sung was confirmed on a 50-49 vote (a Republican didn't vote).
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The turds are out in force in the Senate...
Jennifer Bendery @jbendery wrote: Ted Cruz just told a judicial nominee in her Judiciary Committee hearing -- a 20-year lawyer for the Innocence Project -- that "skyrocketing crime rates, homicide rates, burglary rates, carjacking rates" are ALL the direct result of policies she's spent her life advocating.

This nominee, Nina Morrison, has been lead or co-counsel in cases that have freed more than 30 innocent people from prison and death row.
Jennifer Bendery @jbendery wrote: "Murders," "throwing rocks," "gasoline," "assault," "looters," "rioting"...

Hawley over here just saying a string of scary words about crimes as Morrison sits there.

"I cannot support your nomination" or anyone else who is soft on crime, Hawley dramatically declares, because it is a "pattern with this administration."

We are talking about an Innocence Project attorney here. Who has helped free 30+ innocent people from prison and death row.
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The president has announced 96 Article III judicial nominations since taking office Jan. 20, 2021.

As of June 1, 2022, the Senate had confirmed 66 of President Biden's judicial nominees—49 district court judges, 16 appeals court judges, and one Supreme Court justice.

Comparison of Article III judicial appointments over time by president (1981-Present)

Presidents have appointed an average of 50 judges through June 1 of their second year in office.
Biden made the most appointments through June 1 of his second year with 66, followed by President Bill Clinton (D) with 59. President Barack Obama (D) made the fewest with 26.
President Donald Trump (R) made the most appointments through four years with 234. President Reagan made the fewest through four years with 166.
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Read the Politico article. It’s very interesting.
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Move Heaven. Move Earth. Change the rules. Stay after school. Make every alteration necessary, but fill those damn seats come hell or high water. This isn't the time for standing on tradition and pacing of confirmations.
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raison de arizona wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 2:28 pm Move Heaven. Move Earth. Change the rules. Stay after school. Make every alteration necessary, but fill those damn seats come hell or high water. This isn't the time for standing on tradition and pacing of confirmations.
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After what was done to Obama in the last year of his presidency, why in the hell would Biden make any deal with McConnell on federal judgeship.
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AndyinPA wrote: Wed Jun 29, 2022 8:51 pm After what was done to Obama in the last year of his presidency, why in the hell would Biden make any deal with McConnell on federal judgeship.
Well, shirely this time McConnell will keep his word.
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Yeah, I'm still not happy with that other thing, but I like this.
What Biden Has Done @What46HasDone wrote: Today Pres Biden nominated Tamika Renee Montgomery-Reeves, 41, the first ever black Delaware SC Justice, to the 3rd Circuit Court.

You heard nothing about that, but the site filled unbridled rage about an alleged nomination deal to a district court for a non-existent opening.
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The White House @WhiteHouse wrote: President Biden has appointed 84 federal judges – more than any president since President Kennedy. Of the 143 nominations he’s made, 68% have been women, and 66% have been people of color.
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raison de arizona wrote: Fri Sep 30, 2022 7:26 pm https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse/status/1 ... 8576376842
The White House @WhiteHouse wrote: President Biden has appointed 84 federal judges – more than any president since President Kennedy. Of the 143 nominations he’s made, 68% have been women, and 66% have been people of color.
How does that match with this Wiki quote:
The total number of Trump Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by the United States Senate was 234, including three associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, 54 judges for the United States courts of appeals, 174 judges for the United States district courts, and three judges for the United ...
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:shrug: :confuzzled: Maybe by this point in the term?
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Announcement of 29th round, next four: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo ... -nominees/
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Dems consider break with tradition to get Biden more judges

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Thu, February 23, 2023 at 6:07 AM GMT+1

WASHINGTON (AP) — Even as Democrats celebrated the 100th judicial confirmation of Joe Biden's presidency, they are clamoring for more — and some are flirting with ending a century-long Senate practice to help make it happen.

The rising friction over what in Washington parlance is known as the “blue slip” is creating tensions on the Senate panel that handles judicial nominations and prompting stern warnings from Republicans about a dangerous escalation in the partisanship that already dominates the judicial confirmation process.

The clash over Senate procedure could have major ramifications for Biden as he seeks to fill as many court vacancies as possible during the final two years of his term. Aghast at the speed with which Republicans approved judges during the Trump era, Democrats have made the confirmation to the courts a top priority, vowing to fill every seat possible. Their focus on the nominations is even greater now that Republicans control the House and can stall much of Biden's broader legislative agenda.




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Does this Biden nominee qualify for the position nominated for ?

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pjhimself wrote: Thu Mar 23, 2023 3:55 pm Does this Biden nominee qualify for the position nominated for ?
So: Kato Crews has been a federal magistrate judge since 2018. Before that, he was a partner in a civil law firm. There have been nominees with less experience and qualifications.

Brady is a seminal criminal law case, one that is taught in law school. Crews graduated nearly 23 years ago.

On one hand, it is a gotcha question because it is inquiring about something outside of Crews' experience, as he works in civil (not criminal) law. It would be akin to asking a career prosecutor about summary-judgment motions, or a cardiologist about cancer. No one reasonably expects a nominee to be proficient in every area of the law; rather, the discerning issue is how good will they be at learning and then ruling.

On the other hand, it is a seminal case. Of the hundreds of cases taught in law school, some believe Brady is one of the few that should have stuck in your brain, even decades later.

Especially with "exculpatory" being the right wing's word of the month. As in, a little hearing prep might have done a long way. Doubly so knowing that these zingers have become more common at hearings and (at this point) should be anticipated.
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On the other hand, it is a seminal case. Of the hundreds of cases taught in law school, some believe Brady is one of the few that should have stuck in your brain, even decades later.
That is one of my takeaways. Could he have forgotten? Sure.

Like many, I watch the TV and movie legal thrillers and understand the principle. Didn’t know the “Brady” label.
Should he have remembered???? Gotcha ??? Could be……

The question of how to deal with the number of reversals is unknown without serious analysis of each of the references, not part of the exchange/video. And are some of these “gotchas” ? We don’t know.

Tx for the response.
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Julia Claire @ohJuliatweets wrote: Dianne Feinstein has missed 58 Senate votes in the last month because of illness/being 89 years old. Biden can't confirm any federal judges without all Dems present on the Judiciary Committee. She's given no indication of a return date.

Now that she is my Senator I finally feel even more emboldened to say: RESIGN. Do you know how many lifetime-appointed judges Trump was able to push through (like the one who just invalidated the FDA approval of mifepristone)? This is an emergency.
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raison de arizona wrote: Tue Apr 11, 2023 1:20 pm https://twitter.com/ohJuliatweets/statu ... 74499?s=20
Julia Claire @ohJuliatweets wrote: Dianne Feinstein has missed 58 Senate votes in the last month because of illness/being 89 years old. Biden can't confirm any federal judges without all Dems present on the Judiciary Committee. She's given no indication of a return date.

Now that she is my Senator I finally feel even more emboldened to say: RESIGN. Do you know how many lifetime-appointed judges Trump was able to push through (like the one who just invalidated the FDA approval of mifepristone)? This is an emergency.
But her absence gives Chuck Schumer more excuses for doing fuck-all NOTHING in the Senate. When I think of the power the Senate wields, just lying there moribund. Schumer: the black hole of democracy.
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ABC: Sen. Feinstein asks for temporary Judiciary Committee replacement amid calls for her resignation:
Senator Dianne Feinstein on Wednesday said that she plans to temporarily step aside from the Senate Judiciary Committee as she continues to recover from shingles. The announcement came after a small but growing number of Democrats called for the 89-year-old to resign from the Senate arguing her absence was stalling the confirmation of President Biden's judicial nominees.

In a statement released by Feinstein's office, the California senator said her return to Washington D.C. has been delayed due to complications related to her shingles diagnosis.

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There's no word yet on who may be selected to temporarily fill Feinstein's seat, and the process of choosing that person may not be easy. According to the Congressional Research Service, an appointee to a standing committee -- which would include the Judiciary Committee -- must be elected by the entire Senate.
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And the republicans are going to agree? :think:
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