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Prioritizing judicial vacancies ? Obama virtually matching or passing Bush on successful judicial nominations

By Alliance Alert

Jason Mazzone writing at Balkinization: "With respect to nominations to the appellate courts, Obama has done very well. 10 Obama nominees have been confirmed to the federal circuit courts to date. At the same point in George W. Bush?s presidency (September 13, 2002), 13 of his nominees had been confirmed to the circuit courts. Going up the ladder, Obama has also placed two justices on the Supreme Court. George W. Bush secured appointments of two Supreme Court justices but not until his second term in office. I don?t know how many circuit court judges a Supreme Court justice is worth (five? ten?) but whatever the number, Obama has outpaced Bush at the appellate level overall." Via Orin Kerr at The Volokh Conspiracy.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on September 15, 2010 (boomark / email).