Electing judges still works for N.C.

Obama Appoints Architecht of Roe v. Wade to Appeals Court

Evidence Mounts Against Justice Kagan For Recusal In ObamaCare Suit

NY Times: “Filibustering Nominees Must End”

Chris Christie’s “gay” judicial nominee wrote an e-mail supporting marriage redefinition

Senate weighs state Supreme Court justice’s federal court nomination to 9th Circuit

ABA vetting shows White House wants Pryor for 11th Circuit, Cohen for district court; senators want opposite

Rick Perry’s Supreme Court Idea : 18 Year Terms for the Justices

Regal Office in Brooklyn Is Envy of Judges

GA Senators send White House names for 11th Circuit vacancies  

Senate Republicans Won’t Sue Over Obama Recess Appointments

Magistrate Judge Robert E. Bacharach nominated for 10th Circuit

Phyllis Schlafly: Unconstitutional Recess Appointments

    Phyllis Schlafly at Townhall: Barack Obama’s latest unconstitutional action is his attempt to make four so-called recess appointments to high-level, well-paying jobs in the federal bureaucracy when the Senate was not in recess. He appointed three people to the National Labor Relations Board, plus Richard Cordray to head the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, even though the Senate had declined to confirm his nomination.


  • Posted: 01/24/2012
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  • Category: Miscellaneous
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  • Source: townhall.com

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Administration nominees awaiting next move by GOP

“Gov. Christie nominates two for state Supreme Court, including gay African-American mayor”

Santorum: Romney’s record of judicial capitulation

Obama’s recess appointments might not hold up in court

GOP rep threatens to sue Obama over recess appointments

Brookings report: Judicial Nominations and Confirmations after three years – Where do things stand?

    Russell Wheeler at Brookings Institute: Overall, from President Jimmy Carter’s administration to that of President George W. Bush, confirmation rates for circuit nominees have declined steadily (counting someone who was renominated in the same or different Congresses as a single nominee). District nominees’ confirmation rates, though, have hovered around the 90 percent mark (President George H.W. Bush’s district judge figures are misleading +).


  • Posted: 01/16/2012
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  • Category: Bench & Bar
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  • Source: www.brookings.edu

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Report on D.C. Courts: Nominating Process ‘Unpredictable’

Obama recess appointments face legal challenge

U.S. Rep. Robert Menendez right to meet with blocked judge

US Chamber Head: Won’t Sue ‘Today’ To Block Cordray Appointment

DOJ Memo: Lawfullness of Recess Appointments During a Recess of the Senate Notwithstanding Periodic Pro Forma Sessions

Obama Nominees Cool Heels as Divided Senate Stalls on Confirmation Votes

Justice memo argues Obama recess appointments were legal

White House mum over possible appointment legal advice

Bruce Ackerman: Recess Appointments—Release the Legal Advice | WSJ.com

Gonzalez sworn in as new WA Supreme Court Justice

Michael McConnell: Democrats and Executive Overreach | WSJ.com

Obama’s abuse of power threatens to shut down Senate

Sen. Menendez, a Democrat, blocks federal judge’s appointment to 3rd Circuit

Ron Paul on Cordray appointment: ‘The president is not a dictator or a king’

Santorum says Senate should sue over Obama appointments

Santorum: “States Do Not Have the Right to Do Wrong”

Santorum Soundbites on the Judiciary, 10th Amendment

White House confident recess appointments were constitutional

Rep. Capito says Cordray’s recess appointment a blow against accountability

McConnell blasts Obama’s Cordray non-recess recess appointment

Obama’s DOJ says ‘recess’ appointment illegal

Recess Appointment of Richard Cordray Despite Pro Forma Sessions

U.S. Senator Scott Brown: “Gingrich off base on the judiciary” | The Boston Globe

    U.S. Senator Scott Brown at The Boston Globe: GOP PRESIDENTIAL hopeful Newt Gingrich recently made disturbing comments regarding the judiciary. He proposed that Congress should be able to impeach judges whose decisions he believes to be wrong. If elected, he would abolish courts that displease him, ignore Supreme Court decisions he doesn’t approve of, and order US marshals to arrest judges to force them to explain their decisions to Congress.


  • Posted: 01/04/2012
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  • Category: Bench & Bar
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  • Source: bostonglobe.com

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Obama to bypass Senate GOP, recess-appoint key nominee

Obama under strong pressure to break precedent on recess appointments

MD: Governor O’Malley Appoints Judges to the Court of Appeals, Court of Special Appeals, Circuit Courts

What lies beneath those robes? Politics?

Romney: Gingrich’s idea about judges not practical

Senate GOP to Obama: Don’t make recess appointments to NLRB

Senators block Oklahoma City federal prosecutor from judge post

Senate approves nomination of former Planned Parenthood attorney, Morgan Christen, to 9th Circuit

GOP debate: Candidates weigh reining in the courts

Ohio federal magistrate has a shot at 10th Circuit appeals court position, sources say

Romney’s record on judicial and legal appointments

“Failure to name judge threatens to hamper” 1st Circuit Court of Appeals

Advocates call on Obama to make a recess appointment for consumer agency nominee

Nominee for Tax-Enforcement Position Clears Judiciary Committee

D.C. Circuit Nomination Fails Cloture Test

Judges: Key appeals court nominee faces test vote today – Caitlin Halligan

Boston Globe Editorial on the Halligan nomination to the D.C. Circuit : “Outrage machine grinds away”

Senate Republicans Stop Another Obama Pro-Abortion Judge

D.C. Cir.: Cloture filed on Halligan nomination

ABA Rejects Many Obama Prospects for Judgeships

4th Circuit: Conservative federal appeals court shifts left: Recent opinions reveal a possible liberal leaning

Senate to take up judicial nominations after break

Longtime Appellate Lawyer Nominated For D.C. Court of Appeals

Obama Withdraws Nomination of Charles Day for Maryland District Court

Today – Senate expected to confirm Stephen Higginson to the Fifth Circuit

Colorado Supreme Court candidates say they’re not politically active

The Ugliness Started with Bork

“S.F. federal court vacancy gives Obama an opening”

Powell sworn in as Virginia Supreme Court justice