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Laments about judicial vacancies and federal criminal justice stats in Chief's year-end report

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this New York Times piece, "Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. called on President Obama and the Senate on Friday to solve what he called 'the persistent problem of judicial vacancies.'"  Here's more: The plea, in the chief justice?s annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, was an echo of one from his predecessor, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who made front-page news on New Year?s Day in 1998 by criticizing the Senate for failing to move more quickly on President Bill Clinton?s judicial nominees. Both chief justices were appointed by Republican presidents, and both said that their interest was not in particular appointees but in a judiciary functioning at something like full strength. ?We do not comment on the merits of individual nominees,? Chief Justice Roberts wrote on Friday...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 01, 2011 (boomark / email).