Trump set to unveil judicial nominees

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By SEUNG MIN KIM and JOSH GERSTEIN 05/07/17 11:07 PM EDT

President Donald Trump is poised to roll out his first major tranche of judicial nominees on Monday, capitalizing on the successful confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court last month and an unusually high number of court vacancies that will allow him to remake the federal judiciary.

Two of the nominees who will be unveiled Monday were on the list of Trump’s potential Supreme Court justices and will likely come under scrutiny by Democrats because of that inclusion: Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan Larsen, who will be nominated to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice David Stras, who sits on the Minnesota Supreme Court and is Trump’s pick to sit on the 8th Circuit.

Trump will name three other nominees to the appellate courts: Amy Coney Barrett to the 7th Circuit, John Bush to the Sixth Circuit and Kevin Newsom to the 11th Circuit. The president also plans to name four federal District Court nominees: Dabney Friedrich in the District of Columbia, Terry Moorer in Alabama, David Nye in Idaho and Scott Palk in Oklahoma, as well as Damien Schiff to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. The list of judicial nominees was first reported by the New York Times, and confirmed to POLITICO by a Trump adviser.

Conservative allies of the Trump administration say White House officials have worked diligently since Trump’s inauguration in January to comb through suggested nominees, vet them and prepare them for nomination.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/07/judges-trump-238095

[trusty elf]

1. I feel sick.

[Auntie Bush]

2. Me too! NT

[JudyM]

11. Me too. Instant stomach turn.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. No appointments. tRump is in the last year of his Presidency. . . nt

[chelsea0011]

4. Ha Ha

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Seriously. . . . nt

[chelsea0011]

5. ASre these all the empty seats that Obama couldn't get any votes on?

[Calista241]

7. Obama appointed 329 judges to various courts over his two terms.

Trump has a long way to go to even begin to catch up. There are only 120ish opens seats. I think another 30 or so have indicated they will retire or move to senior status which will allow Trump to make another appointment.

[OnDoutside]

9. That's reassuring, thanks.

[DK504]

8. Will the Senate do their fucking jobs

and reseach these zombies and vote against them. Probably not, but it's time for the Dems to raise 10 kinds of hell on this.

[not fooled]

10. AKA dump read the list

handed to him by the kochs-Heriturd Foundation--Fuckderalist Society.

[jmowreader]

12. Amy Coney Barrett is a law professor at Notre Dame

http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/447404/who-amy-coney-barrett

Her BA is from Rhodes College (magna cum laude) and her JD is from Notre Dame (summa cum laude). She was executive editor of the Notre Dame Law Review.

She teaches federal courts, constitutional law and statutory interpretation at Notre Dame, and has been there since 2002.

She clerked for Laurence Silberman from 1997 to 1998, and Scalia from 1998 to 1999.

In 2014, she wrote a fairly interesting article explaining why the president shouldn't have the power to suspend habeas corpus - a power Trump would dearly love to have. It's at http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2260&context=law_faculty_scholarship

She also co-authored this article on Catholic judges and the death penalty: http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1523&context=law_faculty_scholarship

Here are some other articles she wrote. https://works.bepress.com/amy_barrett/

The only explanation for why Trump chose her - someone who's never even served as a Justice of the Peace - for a federal appeals court seems to be the judges he clerked for and her appearance - she is pretty and young.