............................... JANUARY 2017: 115th Congress Begins — DONALD TRUMP BECOMES PRESIDENT
890 authorized judgeships with 112 ACTUAL VACANCIES (12.58%)
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/archive-judicial-vacancies/2017/01/summary .....................................
JANUARY 2019: 115th Congress Ends — 116th Congress Begins (LINDSAY GRAHAM BECOMES CHAIR of Judiciary Committee)
890 authorized judgeships with 144 ACTUAL VACANCIES (16.17%)
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/archive-judicial-vacancies/2019/01/summary
........................................... MARCH 5, 2019: TODAY
890 authorized judgeships with 153 ACTUAL VACANCIES (17.19%) See NOTE below.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/archive-judicial-vacancies/2019/03/summary
NOTE: Trump Nominees Alison Jones Rushing and Chad Readler who were voted on today (March 5th) were nominated NOT to replace incumbents who were on the list of 153 ACTUAL VACANCIES but to replace two incumbents on the list of 17 KNOWN FUTURE VACANCIES. Those two incumbent judges will move from ACTIVE status to SENIOR status once replacements are confirmed and ready to take office.
Here’s the KNOWN FUTURE VACANCIES list:
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/future-judicial-vacancies
************************************************************************* For comparison purposes, the below shows the VACANCY Status at the end of GW Bush’s presidency.
JANUARY 2009: BUSH Presidency ends — Obama Presidency begins.
875 authorized judgeships with 53 ACTUAL VACANCIES (6.05%) with 26 Nominees Pending
Instead of today’s UNACCEPTABLE vacancy rate of 17.19% TRUMP and the SLOW-WALKING LINDSEY GRAHAM & US SENATE should strive to URGENTLY REDUCE THE VACANCY RATE to a more acceptable ONGOING rate of NO MORE THAN 5 or 6 percent. Republicans need to get serious and move faster, They also need to end the practice of allowing BLUE SLIPS TO BLOCK DISTRICT COURT NOMINEES.
‘Every Democrat present opposed her.”
Democrats always oppose those more intelligent and moral than they are.
“This is good news”
Bump!
I know this isn’t the whole picture. It actually makes the Turtle look likea stud at blocking libtard confirmations during prior administration.
Go Trump! Fill up those judicial posts!
Not guilty.
I do hope that people who claim that there is NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PARTIES understand what’s going on with these votes:
Even our WORST RINOS, Murkowski and Collins, along with the dozen or so other Rinos ALL VOTED FOR HER.
PLEASE THINK ABOUT IT, before you hand the Democrats seats in the Senate by sitting out elections, out of ‘principle’.
Excellent points...
This is why the Republicans controlling the Senate is more important than the Democrats controlling the House.
By the time Mozart was her age, he had been dead for four years.
Well, I was 37 once.
Bro you don’t have to put this into English for those of us that are dimwitted.
But ALL that you posted means nothing to me.
There must be a way to say what is going on that a dumb layman would understand. :)
“They also need to end the practice of allowing BLUE SLIPS TO BLOCK DISTRICT COURT NOMINEES”
It would also be nice if you would end the practice of beating up your CAPS lock key.
Other than that, good post.
From the article:
“Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who helped usher Rushing through the Senate confirmation process, defended her credentials.
“She is really considered one of the fast-rising stars in the legal profession,” he said. “She is clearly qualified to do this job.””
Senator Tillis has been doing a great job in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
yeah, no doubt about it: Trump sucks ... we’d have been SO much better off if Hillary had been elected ...
Second-term SCOTUS nominee?
Trump is doing a great job.
here is a list of appeals court vacancies and pending-nomination.
vacant 2.3.3.3.5.DC.9.9.9.9.9
pending 2.2.3.DC.9.9.9.9
No, the RINOs are waiting for a Dim to get into the White House so they can get partial credit for another commie judge can get into a life time position to turn the Republic over to the One Worlders.
I already love her.
I’d be curious to see what the political makeup/leanings of the jurists that are leaving. If Graham gets off his ass and does around 2 or 3 a week, he’d be able to make a serious dent in those numbers.