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NYT: Obama Abandoned Plans To Nominate Top Voting Rights Scholar To Federal Appeals Court
Last last week, the New York Times‘s Charlie Savage published a characteristically excellent piece detailing the calculations and miscalculations that led to President Obama appointing far fewer judges to the federal bench than his two predecessors — and no judges who stand out as “assertive liberals who might stand as ideological counterpoints to some of [...]
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Republican Blockade Ends: Senate Confirms An Appeals Court Judge For The First Time In Eight Months
Yesterday, the Senate voted 88-12 to confirm Judge William Kayatta Jr. to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Kayatta, who President Obama nominated for this job more than a year ago, is the first federal appel... Read Post
In Less Than One Term, Obama Appointed Nearly As Many Women Judges As Bush Did In Two
According to data from the Federal Judicial Center, President Obama appointed just one fewer women to the federal bench during his four years in office than President George W. Bush did in eight. Obama appointed 70 judges to lifetim... Read Post
President Obama Has Now Quadrupled The Number Of Openly Gay Judges On The Federal Bench
Earlier this afternoon, the Senate confirmed Judge Michael Fitzgerald to a federal court in California by a 91-6 vote. Fitzgerald is President Obama’s fourth openly gay nominee to the federal courts, although one of these four nomin... Read Post