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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Senior means “retired as active, but can hear cases.”
The Ninth Circus is not the private court of the two jackals from California. They also have jurisdiction over Alaska, Arizona, and Hawaii. Two red states and two blue cesspools. Did anyone poll the senators from the other states?
So here we have the Ninth Circus with a total of 40 Judges of all flavors, 18 of whom are “senior” but only 7 of them want out?
Winning for decades to come.
that makes no sense, if a judge is retired, he/she needs to be at home do anything other than hearing cases.
a retired judge should be replaced immediately.
Freaking awesome. GO TRUMP!!
Exactly. That is 20% of the nation’s population.
There was a time when the Senate was something to be respected. But now the Democrats have made it an adjunct to their mob and thugs with support from left wing media allies. They are beholden to Soros, Blumenthal, Steyer and Silicon Valley tyrants.
Best President Evahhh:-)
There’s a dumbass on my street who has a slew of ‘rat supporting signs in their yard. One for “Beto”, and several for other ‘rat candidates. The funniest one reads: “Had enough? Vote DEMOCRATIC”. Sorry, but I have not “had enough” of winning yet.
Now McConnell has to ram and jam them through before Christmas. Do it!!!!
This Court has 29 seats? Isn’t that a bit excessive?
Good move, Mr. President.
29 judges? This circuit needs to be broken up!!!
It’s not a full retirement (there is that option), only that they’re available to hear cases if active duty judges on that circuit are unable to.
Those that go from active duty to senior status (or full retirement) are replaced as soon as possible.
The Ninth Circuit map I found shows: California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, and Hawaii. The Court of Appeals locations are all blue states except for Alaska.
Take your blue slip.... where the sun doesn’t shine.
“Instead of ‘working with our office’to identify consensus nominees for the 9th Circuit, the White House continues to try to pack the courts with partisan judges who will blindly support the President’s agenda, instead of acting as an independent check on this Administration,”...... Lily Adams, Harris’ communications director, said in a statement.....
Your office didn’t win the election...you’re not needed nor wanted.
They're still expected to work a minimum of a 1/4 caseload. Many senior judges do far more than the minimum. The statute for it is here: 28 U.S.C. § 371(e)(1)
Also, moving into senior status does create a vacancy for the President to fill, IIRC.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Did it make their eyes pop out? Dang...nominate some more!
Yes.
“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.”
Not correct. Clarence Thomas was confirmed 52 to 48. Filibusters were not used in USSC processes until GW Bush tried to nominate Estrada. The history of the USA is that a simple majority is all that was/is needed.
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