Pretty surprising news announced late Friday afternoon — Julie Carnes, appointed by President Obama in 2014, is retiring. This will give President Trump his third appointment to the 11th Circuit (Newsom, Branch) and a real opportunity to shape the small court.
It also shows a big difference between Obama and Trump. If the measure is quickly filling openings with young judges who share your judicial philosophy on courts, Obama was slow and ineffective with his judicial appointments, while Trump has been very successful. He has been aggressive, appointing young Federalist Society members in a relatively quick manner. The Julie Carnes seat, for example, was open for quite some time before Obama cut a deal to put a right-leaning judge on the court, who only stayed for a few years. Say what you will about Trump, he has been much more effective for his party on judicial appointments.
Carnes says she is going to “render substantial judicial service as a senior judge.” That’s very nice, but she is also giving Trump an opportunity to replace her with a judge who will sit on the court for a long long time.
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This analysis completes ignores the Republican hypocrisy on blue slips. President Obama nominated Jill Pryor for the 11th Circuit in February 2012, and her nomination was blocked for two years because the GA Senators refused to return their blue slips--without merit or reason, by the way, as evidenced by her 97-0 confirmation 935 days after she was nominated. The GA Senators used their blue slips to insist on a package that included Julie Carnes.
ReplyDeleteToday, Chairman Grassley has allowed nominees to move forward without blue slips for Trump--even though he demanded them during the Obama administration.
The "big difference" between Obama and Trump on judges: Republican willingness to change the rules to allow for maximum obstruction of Democratic nominees and ease of confirmation for Republican ones.
I'm surprised you haven't covered Chief Judge Ed Carnes leaving to become National Security Advisor. Seems like a bigger story.
ReplyDeleteOh my:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.cnn.com/2018/03/26/us/noor-salman-pulse-trial-fbi-informant/index.html
WTF is the government doing?
Government is doing what they always do.
ReplyDeleteI assume Julie Carnes felt her loyalty was to GOP (Bush put her on district court).
Obama DOJ 101.
ReplyDeleteIf your informant does something wrong, deny knowlege or supervision and hope to cover up it from coming out under Brady.
Next they'll argue the investigation is proteções by Privacy or Privilege.
Au contraire, mes amis! It's the obstructionism of the Senate Democrats that is unprecedented. As PowerLineBlog's John Hinderaker pointed out on March 19, "...the Democrats’ obstruction been? It has violated all historical norms: Today, the Senate has had 79 cloture votes in the first 14 months of [the Trump] administration. Seventeen, over the last four administrations, versus seventy-nine in the first 14 months of our administration. That is roughly five times the number of the last four administrations combined."
ReplyDelete-Jefferson Knight