Obama Judicial Nominees

Let's Make a Deal: The Judicial Nominations Battle Is Not Over

Nan Aron | Posted 05.15.2012

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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.

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Harry Reid Forces Action On Stalled Judicial Nominees

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 03.12.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced Monday that he is moving forward with a package of stalled judicial nominees and ef...

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Who Will Republicans Choose When It Comes to the Nation's Courts?

April Carson | Posted 03.14.2012

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The battle over Mr. Cordray's nomination is over. It is time for Senate Republicans to take up the business of the nation's courts and address the nearly 200 million Americans living in jurisdictions with courts unable to function as designed.

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Filibustering A D.C. Circuit Court Judicial Nominee

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.08.2011

WASHINGTON -- This week's Republican filibustering of judicial nominee Caitlin Halligan brought to light a whole bunch of ironies. In Slate, Dahlia...

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Shameful: Partisan Politics Block Another Highly Qualified Judicial Nominee

Debra L. Ness | Posted 02.06.2012

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If an eminently qualified nominee like Caitlin Halligan cannot get an up-or-down vote in the Senate, how will any future nominee be seriously considered? And how will the nation get out of the judicial crisis we are facing?

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Obama Hits Senate Republicans For 'Obstructionism'

AP | By LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 12.06.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked President Barack Obama's nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, partly as payback for...

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Group Secretly Rating Obama Nominees Shrinks Number Of Women, Minorities For Judgeships

New York Times | Charlie Savage | Posted 11.23.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The American Bar Association has secretly declared a significant number of President Obama's potential judicial nominees "not qualified,...

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Making the Court a Priority for Progressives

Andrew Blotky | Posted 12.07.2011

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This Supreme Court term promises to be a significant one, with decisions affecting every American. The cases the court will decide this term alone highlight what's really at stake for all Americans, far beyond any single election or individual term in office.

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Obama Sets 'Non-Traditional' Record

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 11.13.2011

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

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Obama Nominates Fourth Openly Gay Judicial Candidate

Posted 09.19.2011

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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...

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Senate Confirms First Openly Gay Federal Judge

The Huffington Post | Alana Horowitz | Posted 09.18.2011

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The Senate confirmed the first openly gay U.S. federal judge on Monday. Paul Oetken, a New York City resident, was a former lawyer for the Clinton adm...

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White House Poised To Take On Judicial Vacancy 'Crisis'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 08.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In an incredibly rare public appearance in February, White House counsel Bob Bauer warned that the political standoff over judicial nomi...

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Democrats, Hoping To Break Through Impasse, Reach Deal On Three Judges

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In what Senate Democrats are hoping is a sign of forthcoming comity around the politics of filling judicial vacancies, Republicans have ...

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Obama's Chief Counsel: A Cold War Political Crisis Is Endangering Judicial Nominees

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In an extremely rare public appearance on Tuesday, White House Counsel Bob Bauer attributed the "pernicious" crisis over the state of co...

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Chief Justice John Roberts Urges Progress Naming Judges

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting federal judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blamin...

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Obama Left Largely Helpless As Judicial Vacancies Reach Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Obama administration is aware of the growing alarm over its inability to fill long-standing judicial vacancies. White House officials frequently v...

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RNC Accuses Obama Of Shredding Constitution, Nominating Sex-Offender Defenders

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Republican National Committee launched a new website on Wednesday that accuses the president of trying to shred the founding purposes of the Const...

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David Hamilton Filibuster Causes Rift Among Conservatives

The Hill | Alexander Bolton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Leading conservative activists are split over whether to filibuster Judge David Hamilton, whose nomination to the 7th Circuit will serve as a test cas...

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