Now, Chief Judge Moreno has written letters to Senator Mitch McConnell and Senator Harry Reid urging confirmation by the full Senate of Kathy Williams and Bob Scola before the August recess. The intro from the letters:
As Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, I urge you to expedite the Senate's confirmation of Kathleen Williams and Robert Scola to the positions of district judges in our district. I understand that the Judiciary Committee has sent both nominations by unanimous voice vote and is awaiting a vote by the full Senate. Ms. Williams, our district's Federal Public Defender, has been awaiting confirmation for the longest period of any present nominee to the district court in the entire country. State Judge Robert Scola's nomination is of a more recent vintage but the litigants are eagerly awaiting his confirmation.
The judgeship Ms. Williams has been nominated to fill has been vacant for two years! At the present time, our district has three vacancies. Unfilled positions in our Court present an undue hardship on the citizens residing in the Southern District of Florida, particularly those with cases pending in the affected division of the Court. Our district is huge and heavily populated. It includes the most populous counties in Florida, Miami-Dade, Broward (where Fort Lauderdale is located) and Palm Beach Counties. The district also includes Monroe, St. Lucie, Highlands, Okeechobee, Martin, and Indian River Counties.
Now it's our turn. Please follow Judge Moreno's lead and send letters now to get Williams and Scola confirmed.
12 comments:
Love the Chief
He is seriously the best. Wow.
Great letter. Go to judicialnominations.org for the sad story of the how poorly Congress has performed on this issue.
Apparently white men sail through the process. Some things never change.
Letter going out today.
10:06: Judge Scola is Hispanic. Also, plenty of Bush's white male nominees faced rocky confirmation paths (William Pryor, William Haynes, Terrence Boyle, Peter Keisler, and Michael Wallace, just to name a few). Give your wrist some time to heal from whipping out the race card so quickly.
Meeester Markus....let sleeping nominees lie.!!!!
The circuit judge and district judge confirmation processes couldn't be more different. Rarely, if ever, will one see a dissenting vote for a district judge. Cf. Pryor confirmation (53-45). Pryor's awesome, though.
12:43,
It wasn't the race card; it was the gender card. Check the stats about confirmation waits for women vs men.
6:11 -- Nice "cf."
your Compassionate!
letter writing
Scola is Italian not Hispanic
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