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Stalled Judicial Nominations Move Forward Following Agreement by Reid, McConnell
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyIn one of the first efforts at bipartisan goodwill -- or just plain cooperation -- the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday agreed to move forward 11 judicial nominations that had been languishing since the last session of Congress. Though all of the nominees were deemed "noncontroversial," the move was seen as the first step in a deal made late last month between Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), in the hope of creating a less divided, more efficient upper house. Reform-minded advocates in the Senate have been pressing for official rules ...
Judge John Roll's Successor Declares 'Judicial Emergency' in Arizona
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyChief U.S. District Judge John M. Roll may have stopped by to say hello to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords at that Tucson Safeway on Jan. 8 -- a simple gesture that cost him his life -- but he was there mostly so he could talk business with the federal lawmaker and her staff about what he called a "tsunami" of criminal cases battering Arizona's federal courts. There were, he had often said to anyone who would listen, just too many felony cases for too few judges with too little resources, especially in Tucson. In fact, just six weeks before his death, Roll asked his bosses at the 9th U.S. Circuit ...
Roberts Casts Blame on Both Parties for Judicial Nomination Gridlock
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting federal judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both sides for the political gridlock of judicial nominations in the Senate. "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of judicial nominations, depending on their changing political fortunes," Roberts said Friday in his year-end report. "This has created acute difficulties for some judicial districts. Sitting judges in those districts have been burdened with extraordinary caseloads." There ...
With State Justice Systems Reeling, Chief Justice Roberts Praises Supreme Court's Frugality
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailySupreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. wrote all the right things Friday in his annual state-of-the-judiciary remarks. He noted the 75th anniversary of the high court's current building (without acknowledging that security concerns in 2010 forced the closure of its front doors to the public). He praised the dogged work of federal judges and the legions of administrators who help make our courts functioning. He promoted a strategic plan for growth and innovation proposed by the Judicial Conference of the United States and, in comments certain to reverberate through Capitol Hill and ...
Freshman Republican Says Senate Shouldn't Filibuster Judicial Nominees
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyFreshman Republican Mike Lee, elected in Utah with support from the tea party movement, says the Senate should do away with filibusters against judicial nominees, scrapping a stalling tactic when it is used in confirmation debates. Sen.-elect Lee told a radio interviewer, "I think we can make a strong argument that the filibuster ought not apply with respect to judicial nominees," according to the liberal website Thinkprogress.org and the Washington Post. "Perhaps out of this discussion will come a rule clarifying that point. If so, I'll be happy." Democrats were not happy in 2005 when ...
Jim Morrison Pardoned, Judge Porteous Impeached: The Law at Work
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyWho says the Congress stalls on matters involving federal judges? After a trial that lasted only a day, the Senate sure voted quickly to oust impeached U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous, Jr., didn't it? There wasn't even the hint of a whiff of a filibuster when members of the august chamber voted 96-0 (on the first of four charges) to convict and remove just the eighth federal judge in American history to be laid low by "high crimes and misdemeanors." The judge's defenses -- that the bribes came mostly when he was a state judge and that there are few legal ethics in Louisiana -- ...
Mitch McConnell Warns Barack Obama on Judicial Nominees
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe top Senate Republican, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), told a conservative legal group that Senate Republicans would hold President-elect Barack Obama's nominees for federal judgeships to time honored standards of judicial temperament and qualification. McConnell was careful to say that Republicans would not resort to "extra-Constitutional" means to block Obama's appointees, as Democrats did to more than a dozen of President Bush's judicial nominees. But he did signal that the smaller Senate Republican caucus has no intention of allowing Obama to fill the courts with his judges ...
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