Current Judicial Appointments Data

Concerned Women For America ^ | 11/15/02 | Thomas Jipping

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Current Judicial Appointments Data

     11/15/2002

By Thomas Jipping

Updated November 15, 2002

	Court		Seats		Current Vacancies		Pending Nominees		Confirmed		Defeated		Before Judiciary Committee		Before Full Senate
	U.S. District Court		665		50		32		66		0		13		17
	U.S. Court of Appeals		179		28		16		14		2		15		1
	U.S. Supreme Court		9		0		0		0		0		0		0
	U.S. Court of Int'l Trade		9		1		1		0		0		1		0
	TOTALS		862		79		49		80		2		29		20

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

1. Current Vacancies: the latest vacancy list compiled by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.

2. Pending Nominees: the complete list of nominations compiled by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy (DOJ/OLP).

3. Confirmed: the complete list of confirmed nominees compiled by DOJ/OLP.

4. Click here for CWA’s full Judicial Appointments Data Sheet.

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Democrats continue killing Bush's judicial nominations

[fishbabe]

do you know where i can get info on the liberal judges that were confirmed in clintons time???????

[tsomer]

Ditto! I got into a discussion with a lib friend about this; he says its "payback".

[nicmarlo]

Bookmark and bttt

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http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/106nomin.htm

The above will get you the info on the Judicial Committees activities regarding nominations for 106th and 105th Congresses.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Marked.

So, the NPR (substitute) host on Saturaday said that Dasshole wasn't holding up judges????

Doesn't sound right.

Seems like 49 of 51 (2 were shutdown) are being held up in the Senate.

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Bttt

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Try here

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Here is some Carl Rove POLITICS on this issue

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Clinton Judicial Appointments

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Democrats continue killing Bush's judicial nominations

9/6/2002

By Tanya L. Green, J.D.

Senate Judiciary Committee rejected nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the U.S. Court of Appeals for 5th Circuit.

In a move that President Bush called “shameful,” the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the nomination of Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen to the U.S. Court of Appeals for 5^th Circuit.

Concerned Women for America had strongly supported Justice Owen throughout her arduous confirmation process and even demanded an apology from Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) for her slanderous statements about Justice Owen in the July 23 committee nomination hearing.

“The liberal attack against Justice Owen was based on lies, and Owen clearly refuted the false charges brought against her in the hearing,” Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women for America, said. “The Judiciary Committee should have rejected the defamatory and misleading accusations leveled against this decent, highly qualified woman of integrity.”

Attorney General John Ashcroft issued a statement following the committee’s vote, which said in part:

“Priscilla Owen's legal qualifications are well-established and unimpeachable—and today marks the first time in U.S. history that a judicial nominee who has been unanimously rated ‘well-qualified’ by the ABA was voted down. In failing to provide Justice Owen with a hearing for over a year, and then summarily killing her nomination, Senate Democrats have indicated an unfortunate trend toward unfairness against qualified women nominated by this Administration.”

Tom Jipping, CWA’s senior fellow in legal studies, agreed with the Attorney General, saying it is “absolutely unheard of” for the committee to reject a nominee who receives a unanimous “well-qualified” rating from the American Bar Association.

Sadly, Justice Owen is the second casualty of political maneuvering over Bush’s judicial nominees. In March, the Judiciary Committee rejected another highly qualified nominee for the 5^th Circuit, U.S. District Judge Charles Pickering.

This latest rejection further exacerbates the vacancy crisis in the federal judiciary. As Jipping noted, the Senate is lagging far behind in confirming appeals court nominees.

“The only proper comparison is confirmation rates, not confirmation totals, because presidents don’t make the same number of nominations,” Jipping said. “Previous presidents saw an average of 92 percent of their appeals court nominees confirmed in their first two years. So far, the rate for President Bush is just 41 percent.

“Those who support an impartial, independent judiciary must re-double our efforts to avoid the sort of partisan, ideological campaign against solid nominees like Justice Owen [and Judge Pickering],” Jipping said.

To read President Bush’s statement on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s rejection of Justice Priscilla Owen, go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020905-1.html.

CWA Confronts Leahy

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President Calls Senate Judiciary Committee Action "Shameful"

Statement by the President

The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted to deny the American people the service of an outstanding individual with a record of accomplishment and a brilliant legal mind. The Committee has voted down Justice Priscilla Owen, my nominee to serve as a Judge on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals and is preventing the full Senate from voting on her nomination.

I know Justice Owen well. She is an outstanding judge and a woman of integrity who has received outspoken bipartisan support. Based on her distinguished service with the Texas Supreme Court for seven years, the American Bar Association unanimously rated her, "well qualified," the highest rating the organization can bestow upon a nominee. She is known to be a fair and impartial judge who strives to interpret the law fairly.

What the Democrat members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have done to Justice Owen is shameful, even by Washington standards. They have distorted her record and misconstrued her opinions. They have determined that a nominee's experience, academic credentials, and character are inconsequential.

Justice Owen's nomination should be brought to the floor of the Senate for a vote. If the full Senate were to vote on her nomination today, I am confident she would be confirmed. The Democrats on the Judiciary Committee know this, and therefore, voted to prevent it.

As I have said before, today's vote is about more than one woman, or one seat on an individual court. The Committee's action today continues its pattern of obstruction at a time when there are too many vacancies in our federal courts, a problem that the Chief Justice of the United States has called "alarming." Today's action by this small group of Democrat Senators is wrong. It has harmed a good person, harmed our courts, and harmed the American people.

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[nicmarlo]

Thanks for your post...(however, that link doesn't work). Leahy and Daschole will one day get their due.....11/5 was hopefully only just the beginning.

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CWA Renews Calls for Apology From Feinstein to Judicial Nominee

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This link works, right?

[nicmarlo]

September 5, 2002, The Senate Judiciary Committee today voted to deny the American people the service of an outstanding individual with a record of accomplishment and a brilliant legal mind. The Committee has voted down Justice Priscilla Owen . . .

Works for me.

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