Obama Judicial Nominations

Republicans have been engaged in relentless obstruction of Obama's judicial nominees at an unprecedented level. The 17 district court nominees at issue this week have been awaiting a final vote for a cumulative total of 3,628 days from the time they were proposed by the president until today.

Caitlin Halligan had been nominated to fill the 9th seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit -- which is now more than a quarter vacant -- and today's Republican filibuster is unwarranted and irresponsible.

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is moving at a historic pace to try to diversify the nation's federal judiciary: Nearly three of every four ...

President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that he is nominating Michael Walter Fitzgerald to serve as a judge on the federal court for the Central Di...

As a result of unprecedented Republican political gamesmanship, President Obama ends the first half of his first term with a smaller percentage of his nominees confirmed than any previous president.

Partisan "leaders" are now chosen, weeks ahead of the Republic's 112th Congress. Now is the time to confirm Executive Branch leaders for the next two...

Almost one in eight federal judgeships is vacant in the country and legal scholars warn that the increasingly politicized confirmation process threate...

How does a small group of Republican Senators manage to hold up the confirmation process? They continually refuse to vote on nominations, force cloture votes, and place anonymous holds on nominees.

The past year was grueling for Democrats trying to getting major legislation passed -- with most of the focus on health care reform. But 2010 will be ...

President Obama is increasingly frustrated with the slow pace of confirmation for his judicial and executive appointees, according to White House Pres...