Posted on 10/12/2018 9:43:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is about to become about ten percent less crazy. President Trump has nominated three new judges for the 29-seat circuit court, over the objections of the two senators representing their home state of California. Until Trump discarded the practice, home state senators were allowed to veto judicial nominations for courts in their states, a custom known as the "blue slip." That seems quaint these days, a relic of a bygone era in which actual qualifications, not ideology, were the issue in Senate confirmation votes that, anyway, required a filibuster-proof 60 votes.
As a result, President Trump and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are filling the federal bench with judges and justices who read and apply the Constitution instead of deciding which outcome they want ideologically and then finding a rationalization for it.
Emily Cadei and Kate Irby of the Sacramento Bee report:
After months of negotiations and delays, the White House is moving to fill California's three vacancies on the influential 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals – over the strenuous objections of the state's two Democratic senators.
White House officials had been negotiating with Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, both of whom sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, earlier in the year about filling these and other federal court vacancies in the state. But that dialogue collapsed this past summer, Senate aides said.
On Wednesday night, the Trump administration announced it was nominating three attorneys to the Ninth Circuit, the largest and busiest federal appeals court in the country. Among the thorny issues the court has tackled or could decide on are the legality of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, program for undocumented young people [sic] brought to the country as children, the president's travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries,
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This is winning - for decades to come.
Thank you Mr. President.
Anyone who says this is not winning, needs to get a life!
Gee, how did the 9th ever become a Circus?????
Who knew that the Dems’ “Resist Everything At Any Cost” strategy might have a few drawbacks?
With those two you can bet the voodoo dolls and potions are out and on the boil. Awwwww.
ChiSpyDiFi should never be listened to about anything.
Same for Willy Brown’s whore.
If the Trump administration ended right now, his legacy would be HUGE.
Influential? Did I read that right? Isn’t/wasn’t the 9th the most overturned court? Guess it depends on what one sees as influential.
excellent. GOP already automatically loses the 55 electoral votes from CA. No harm no foul.
Ram ‘em through!
There are 7 vacancies on the 9th circuit so this will not be the end of the Strict Constructionist judges President Trump will ram down the left coast socialists ‘ throats. #winning#
“ChiFi”!
I think they also have a record of issuing crazed, nationwide rulings that are not overturned or not overturned soon enough.
That makes them influential. It’s a power base for the ‘rats to legislate from the bench.
Defy? They are NOTHING. Let the demonrats vote no. They are not in the majority.
With 29 Judges, there should be at least one opening every year, so Trump may end up “packing” the Court with 17 Judges.
Darn tootin !
As far as I can tell, Federalist Society and Judicial Watch have become the best Constitutionalist / Conservative organizations in existence.
Oh no! Poor DiFi and Kamala!
Are these three among the 15 in today’s judges-for-recess deal?
Referring to this list:
https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/content/view_seniority_list.php?pk_id=0000000035
There are currently 18 judges listed as “Senior Circuit Judge.” I have been unable to find out why they are all listed, and what determines when they are replaced. I assume that the 7 “vacancies” you mention are among those listed as Senior Circuit Judge. Just what does it mean to be aSenior Judge? Do they participate or do they just stay on the payroll and get to keep their black robes?
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