**BREAKING -- I am being told that Bruce Reinhart has been selected as the new magistrate in West Palm Beach.
I am still waiting to hear who got it in Miami.
UPDATE -- Lauren Louis has been selected as the new magistrate in Miami.
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Monday, November 06, 2017
Shanieck Maynard investiture
Congrats to Shanieck Maynard on her investiture as Magistrate Judge in Ft. Pierce.
The judges will be selecting two new magistrates today for West Palm Beach and Miami from this list:
Miami:
Lynn Kirkpatrick, Lauren Louis, Gera Peoples, Steven Petri, and Erica Zaron
West Palm Beach:
Panayotta Agustin-Birch, Celeste Higgins, Stephanie Moon, Steven Petri, and Bruce Reinhart
Thursday, November 02, 2017
Federal Bar Association Dinner
It was a big night at the South Florida Chapter of the Federal Bar Association last night. Judge Donald Graham received the Ned Award, named after Judge Edward B. Davis. It's a very prestigious honor and one that Judge Davis would be very proud that it was awarded to Judge Graham. Also, Russell Koonin was installed as the new president of the organization. Ben Brodsky is the outgoing president. Here are some good pictures:
Wednesday, November 01, 2017
Give me a lawyer dog or Give me a lawyer, Dawg
Did the defendant say: Give me a lawyer dog or Give me a lawyer, Dawg. According to the Supreme Court of Louisiana, the defendant could have wanted some sort of weird animal called a lawyer dog:
The memes from the case have been funny. Here's one from Slate:
ABSURD!!In my view, the defendant’s ambiguous and equivocal reference to a “lawyer dog”does not constitute an invocation of counsel that warrants termination of the interview and does not violate Edwards v. Arizona, 451 U.S. 477, 101 S.Ct.1880, 68 L.Ed.2d 378 (1981).
The memes from the case have been funny. Here's one from Slate:
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Here come the (conservative) judges...
While everyone is focused on the Manafort indictment, the Senate is about to confirm 4 conservative appellate judges. From HuffPost:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is finally giving conservative groups what they want: a huge push on judicial confirmations.
McConnell has teed up votes this week on four of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees. That’s an incredible amount of activity on judges in one week. For some comparison, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) typically scheduled a vote on one nominee per week, at most.
“I never remember the Democrats ever doing anything comparable,” Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor and an expert on judicial nominations, told HuffPost on Monday.
With little fanfare, this week is shaping up to be one of Republicans’ biggest boosts to Trump’s agenda since Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was confirmed in April.
All four nominees are young (in their late 40s and early 50s), conservative and up for a lifetime post on a U.S. circuit court ― one level below the Supreme Court. None got a single Democratic vote when they were reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Two were recommended to Trump directly by the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation, both right-wing think tanks.
The Senate cleared a procedural step on Monday night for the first nominee in the batch, Amy Coney Barrett. She is now on track to be confirmed Tuesday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit.
Democrats have raised red flags with Barrett’s past writings on abortion, which include her questioning the precedent of Roe v. Wade and condemning the birth control benefit under the Affordable Care Act as “a grave infringement on religious liberty.” One Democrat, Al Franken (Minn.), called her out for taking a speaking fee from the Alliance Defending Freedom, a nonprofit that has defended forced sterilization for transgender people and has been dubbed a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Trump’s other court picks getting votes include Joan Larsen, a nominee to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals who is opposed by 27 LGBTQ advocacy groups and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; Allison Eid, a nominee to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals who is opposed by the AFL-CIO and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights; and Stephanos Bibas, a nominee to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
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