Congratulations to the judge and his family. What a great addition to the 11th Circuit. He will be missed on the trial bench...
Glenn Sugameli has all of the scoop here, here, and here.
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9 comments:
Sorely missed. At least he gets a raise.
Fantastic news!
Blunt (R-MO)
DeMint (R-SC)
Lee (R-UT)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
And your excuse is ??????
In a way, I'm sad. I guess this means a lull in the endless repetition of judicial nomination talking points on this blog. (The endless links to ever-temperate, never hyperbolic Glenn Sugameli left me uncertain as to whether Republicans are wicked, dirty obstructionists, but the copy/paste of the Leahy press release set me straight.) Are you telling me I have to cut out the middleman and go straight to Media Matters for this now?
"Blunt (R-MO)
DeMint (R-SC)
Lee (R-UT)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)"
All Republicans....as a Cuban-American, I'm always perplexed by "my people's" fascination with the Republican party.
12:45 - you nailed it on the head; they are wicked obstructionists
FYI: those five are voting against all Obama admin nominees in response to Obama's unconstitutional recess appointment of Richard Cordary to the Consumer Finance Protection Board. Mike Lee did vote for Judge Jordan in committee. But note that aside from these five, Republicans overwhelmingly voted to confirm Judge Jordan a mere six months after his nomination. Given the Democrats' treatment of Bush's nominees, that's practically a rubber stamp.
I know a lot of folks around here want to dispense with committee and floor votes entirely and just have Obama's nominees immediately assume the bench without any scrutiny, but let's all just relax a bit. Judge Jordan has a lifetime appellate appointment, and he got it in six months. Not too shabby.
11:37: The numbers don't lie. On average, it takes 253 days for Obama judicial nominees to be confirmed by the Senate, but it only took Pres. G.W. Bush an average of 146 days from nomination to get his judicial nominees confirmed. (See http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2011/0104_judicial_nominations_wheeler/0104_judicial_nominations_wheeler.pdf at page 6)
Mind you, as you drill down, neither party is without fault. But your comment boarders on the ridiculous (or simply tragically uninformed).
Following up on the nomination to confirmation numbers I posted above, those are just for Circuit appointments. District appointments are taking Obama about 351 days, while only averaging about 290 days for G.W. Bush.
There is no rubber stamp on Obama's judicial nominations.
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