Posted on 05/08/2019 8:17:59 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump, who already has had a mammoth impact on America’s judicial system by appointing over 100 judges and flipping the Pennsylvania-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals to majority Republican appointees, is posed to flip another Circuit Court of Appeals: The Second Circuit. There are 13 Circuit Courts of Appeals in the U.S.
As Bloomberg Law reports, on Wednesday the Senate confirmed Joseph Bianco to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Another judge, Michael Park, is expected to be confirmed later this week. Bloomberg noted, “When Trump makes additional appointments for vacancies that will be left by two judges who recently announced their retirements, Dennis Jacobs and Christopher Droney, the 13-member court will be majority Republican-appointed.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer supported Bianco’s confirmation to the district court in 2005, asserting, “I am proud to support someone as outstandingly qualified and well respected as Mr. Bianco,” but he opposes Bianco’s promotion now that he could change the balance on the Second Circuit. In March, Schumer issued a statement that said of Bianco and Park:
Another day, another partisan push by Senate Republicans for hard-right nominees to get lifetime appointments on the federal bench. One day after Senate Republicans elevated to the Sixth Circuit an attorney who proclaimed pre-existing condition protections are unconstitutional, Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans voted to advance the nominations of Michael Park and Joseph Bianco for the Second Circuit, despite objections from Senator Gillibrand and me.
Mr. Park has spent much of his career working in opposition to civil rights and seeking to advance the far-right agenda. He has been on the front lines of efforts to dismantle affirmative action policies in education, strike down our health care law, and is currently defending the Trump administration's effort to insert a...
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Bill Kristol is still disappointed
More winning, amigos.
I am not sure that the terms democrat & republican apply to President Trump’s nominees and appointments.
The political label comparison doesn’t impress as much as ‘original interpreter’ or ‘living constitutionalist’
I’ll side with the originalists, thank you very much,Mr. President
Booyah
Bloomberg noted, “When Trump makes additional appointments for vacancies that will be left by two judges who recently announced their retirements, Dennis Jacobs and Christopher Droney, the 13-member court will be majority Republican-appointed.”
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And the WONDERFUL thing is that Droney is an Obama appointed judge. THAT has got to hurt the prideful Obama as he sees yet another little piece of his pathetic “legacy” melt away.
Excellent!
38 Confirmed on the Circuit Courts with a few more vacancies to go. Obama appointed 55 to the Circuit Courts so there is still a ways to go to counterbalance all the damage he did its been a very encouraging first two years for Trump.
It’d be awfully nice now if one of the Gang of Four’s seats came open on the Supreme Court this year.
What the Dim/socialists call "hard-right" are actually Constitutional adherents.
amen
I love winning and I’m not tired of it yet.
This is excellent news about the 2nd Circuit.
Partly personal, we’ve a case that’s been stalled, in the 2nd circuit for a couple of years, now we should see some progress. And payout.
Is the 2nd the DC circuit ? Muy importanto
WE NEEDED THIS AFTER ALL OF TODAY’S NEWS!!
HOPE YOU ARE WELL!
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
(2d Cir.)
Seal of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.svg
2nd Circuit map.svg
Location Thurgood Marshall U.S. Courthouse
(New York City. New York)
Appeals from
District of Connecticut
Eastern District of New York
Northern District of New York
Southern District of New York
Western District of New York
District of Vermont
Established June 16, 1891
Judges 13
Circuit Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
President Trump, please stop all this winning... I can’t take any more. I’m sleepy and tired of all this winning.
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Just kidding, I’m just sleepy.
It’d be a shame if Roberts and Ginsburg went dancing and were hit head-on by a garbage truck on the way home.
Even the Ninth Circuit Court gets on right now once in a while.
The most recent was yesterday or the day before ruling that Trump could make illegals wait in Mexico while their amnesty cases were reviewed (or some such, close to that).
It was a remarkable ruling for a court that gets over-ruled all the time.
And the ninth circuit surprised me with their ruling this week...WINNING...
“It’d be awfully nice now if one of the Gang of Four’s seats came open on the Supreme Court this year.”
There is an open seat on SCOTUS. Has anyone knocked on Ginsburg’s door to see if she is still alive?
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