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The Election's Impact on the Federal Judiciary

From the Standdown blog :The Election's Impact on the Federal Judiciary http://standdown.typepad.com/weblog/ National Law Journal has a web-only article, "Election's outcome could have seismic effect on federal courts," reported by Pamela MacLean. Republican Presidents have appointed more than half of the current 179 federal appellate judges, but that could rise dramatically to 74% if Senator John McCain wins the presidency, or give Democrats a 56% majority in appointments if Senator Barack Obama prevails, according to a Brookings Institution report issued on Wednesday.In addition, the report by Russell Wheeler at Brookings, predicts that in four years of an Obama presidency, his appointments could shift Republican dominance on 10 of 11 circuits, to give Democrat appointees a majority in seven circuit courts...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).