Judicial Nominations
July 30, 2010
The American Constitution Society has a new website tracking judicial nominations. It’s called judicialnominations.org. You can see bench vacancies and seats where nominations are pending. There are 98 current vacancies in the federal courts across the country and another 21 upcoming retirements. Yet there are only 49 pending nominees—which means that, no matter how broken the confirmation process is in the Senate, the administration and perhaps the entire Democratic legal community bear some blame for the failure to fill the vacancies. For whatever reason—probably too much vetting all around, says Jonathan Bernstein—the President just hasn’t offered up nominees or applied serious or thorough enough pressure to get the Senate do its job.
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