Litigation

Election to Impact Judicial Nominations?

By Peter Hardin

Several weeks preceding Election Day, President Obama asked the Senate to step up confirmation of judicial nominees and avert “a crisis in the judiciary” (see Gavel Grab).

Now that Senate Republicans will add to their numbers in the Senate come January, the Democrats’ smaller majority “puts in doubt the confirmation prospects of various nominees who have attracted criticism from Republicans. It could also prompt the White House to seek more Republican input on future nominees,” a Greenwire report in the New York Times article said.

You can read about the federal judicial backlog, and concerns about its impact on the delivery of justice, in earlier Gavel Grab posts.

Full post as published by The Gavel on November 05, 2010 (boomark / email).