Two Judges Confirmed This Week

[cotton1706]

This will be a weekly post.

Count is now 218 judges confirmed.

2 Trade Court judges

161 District Court judges

53 Circuit Court judges

2 Supreme Court justices

The Senate this week also confirmed a judge to the Court of Federal Claims (Article I judge, serves 15 years).

President Trump is expected to appoint Amy Coney Barrett later today to fill the Supreme Court vacancy resulting from the death last week of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

A Barrett confirmation would then leave a vacancy on the 7th Circuit. Should Trump appoint a replacement and the Senate confirm, that would be Trump's 54th Circuit court judge in less than four years. Obama had 55 in EIGHT years.

If Barrett is confirmed, Trump will be the first President since Reagan to have more than two Supreme Court justices confirmed (Reagan appointed O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, and elevated Rehnquist to Chief Justice).

Before Reagan there was Nixon, who had four Justices confirmed in a single term (Warren, Blackmun, Powell and Rehnquist).

The Judiciary has been reconstituted before our eyes over the past four years. Here's to four more!

[House Atreides]

Around 3,500 U.S. companies such as including Tesla Inc, Ford Motor Co, Target Corp, Walgreen Co and Home Depot have sued the Trump administration in the last two weeks over the imposition of tariffs on more than $300 billion in Chinese-made goods. These lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3887734/posts?page=11#11

There are currently TWO VACANCIES on the 9 member United States Court of International Trade. I don’t know what the “proclivities” of the 4 Obama appointees to the International Trade Court are but I worry about how they may intentionally rule to the detriment of the United States.

President Trump and Leader McConnell need to FILL THESE VACANCIES URGENTLY. Trump’s entire America First agenda may depend on it.

[House Atreides]

Around 3,500 U.S. companies such as including Tesla Inc, Ford Motor Co, Target Corp, Walgreen Co and Home Depot have sued the Trump administration in the last two weeks over the imposition of tariffs on more than $300 billion in Chinese-made goods. These lawsuits have been filed in the U.S. Court of International Trade.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3887734/posts?page=11#11

There are currently TWO VACANCIES on the 9 member United States Court of International Trade. I don’t know what the “proclivities” of the 4 Obama appointees to the International Trade Court are but I worry about how they may intentionally rule to the detriment of the United States.

President Trump and Leader McConnell need to FILL THESE VACANCIES URGENTLY. Trump’s entire America First agenda may depend on it.

[Qout]

A nominee for one of the open positions on the Court of International Trade, Stephen A. Vaden, was reported out of the Judicial Committee on January 16th. The ball is in Leader McConnell’s court.

[House Atreides]

“The ball is in Leader McConnell’s court.”
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Yes, I agree... and it’s been in his “court” for a long time. I worry about the 4 Obama appointed judges making up the majority of the 7 active judges sitting on this important court. McConnell needs to schedule Vaden for his confirmation vote and President Trump needs to submit a nominee for the 9th position on the court. And that needs to be done on a priority basis, IMHO.

It’s better to prevent problems than it is to try to remedy problems.

[bakkentom]

The infamous 7th circuit. Where three obstinate octogenarian judges refused to retire early to have Trump nominate with younger replacements. The three are 84, 82, and 82 and appointed by Reagan, Reagan, and Papa Bush.

If Trump loses or Rats regain the Senate there are four easy layups for new RGB types that will be there 40 years.

[trebb]

More good news - many think it was Obama’s laziness that left so many vacancies but McConnell and company opposed a lot of the Obama nominees and helped ensure vacancies for Trump to fill.

[kiryandil]

September 22 [Article I judge]:
Confirmed, 66-27: Executive Calendar #603 Edward Hulvey Meyers [Federalist Society member] to be a Judge of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims [Article I tribunal] for a term of fifteen years.

September 23 [Article III judge]:
Confirmed, 70-27: Executive Calendar #588 John Charles Hinderaker to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Arizona.

September 24 [Article III judge]:
Confirmed, 93-2: Executive Calendar #815 Roderick C. Young to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia.

[Deplorable American1776]

How many judges are waiting?

[zeestephen]

Both judges are a freaking disaster!

Hinderaker - Arizona - 24 Republicans voted “No”

Young - Virginia - 41 Democrats voted “Yes”

[newfreep]

The waiting is the hardest part.

[kiryandil]

The infamous 7th circuit. Where three obstinate octogenarian judges refused to retire early to have Trump nominate with younger replacements. The three are 84, 82, and 82 and appointed by Reagan, Reagan, and Papa Bush.

Here's the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit [as of July 4, 2020]:

Judges:	          11
Circuit Justice:  Brett Kavanaugh
Chief Judge:	  Diane S. Sykes

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Age	Title	        Judge	                Duty station	Born	Term of service	                Appointed by
63	Chief Judge	Diane S. Sykes	        Milwaukee, WI	1957	2004–present   &2020–present	G.W. Bush
84	Circuit Judge	Joel Flaum	        Chicago, IL	1936	1983–present   &2000–2006	Reagan
72	Circuit Judge	Frank H. Easterbrook	Chicago, IL	1948	1985–present   &2006–2013	Reagan
82	Circuit Judge	Michael Stephen Kanne	Lafayette, IN	1938	1987–present	—	—	Reagan
82	Circuit Judge	Ilana Rovner	        Chicago, IL	1938	1992–present	—	—	G.H.W. Bush
70	Circuit Judge	Diane Wood	        Chicago, IL	1950	1995–present   &2013–2020	Clinton
63	Circuit Judge	David F. Hamilton	Bloomington, IN	1957	2009–present	—	—	Obama
48	Circuit Judge	Amy Coney Barrett     * South Bend, IN	1972	2017–present	—	—	Trump
57	Circuit Judge	Michael B. Brennan    *	Milwaukee, WI	1963	2018–present	—	—	Trump
49	Circuit Judge	Michael Y. Scudder    # Chicago, IL	1971	2018–present	—	—	Trump
54	Circuit Judge	Amy J. St. Eve	        Chicago, IL	1965	2018–present	—	—	Trump

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94	Senior Circuit 	William Joseph Bauer	Chicago, IL	1926	1974–1994	1994–present	Ford    &1986–1993
77	Senior Circuit  Kenneth Francis Ripple	South Bend, IN	1943	1985–2008	2008–present	Reagan
78	Senior Circuit 	Daniel Anthony Manion	South Bend, IN	1942	1986–2007	2007–present	Reagan

& denotes Chief Judge of the Court
* denotes Federalist Society member
# denotes Federalist Society associate

Reagan judge Joel Flaum is Resistance - he's Left as the day is long.

Grabby Poppy [GHW Bush] judge Ilana Rovner appears to be Resistance, also.

[PAR35]

So the Black guy waltzes through 93-2, but the white guys have hard core opposition (27 sure no votes) from the Democrats.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Thanks for keeping us up to date!

[zeestephen]

Re: White guy gets 27 “NO” votes from Democrats.

If only!

24 Republicans voted “No” against Hinderaker.

Both of these judges have almost unanimous Democrat support.

[PAR35]

Thanks for the correction. I should have dug deeper.