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Another justified complaint about the pace of Obama judicial nominations

By Douglas A. Berman

At Slate, Doug Kendall has this new commentary, headlined "Fill the Bench Now: Now is the time for Obama to move on judicial nominations," which take President Obama to task for the slow pace of his judicial nominations. Here are excerpts: By February 2002, President George W. Bush had nominated 89 judges to the lower federal courts. This week, Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy prodded President Obama, who has nominated just 42 federal judges to date, to "get up names as quickly as possible."  President Obama promised to make this "a priority."  He'd better. There are currently 102 vacancies on the federal bench. Of these, 31 constitute "judicial emergencies"? vacancies that have severely threatened a court's ability to handle its workload...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on February 06, 2010 (boomark / email).