Yesterday Pres Obama renominated 54 of the 55 judicial nominees the Senate sent back to WH Dec 20th

[Tx4obama]

White House statement/release, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Barack_Obama

Full Judicial nominee LIST, here: http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=2&vote=00002

Obama had to also renominate all the Admin nominees that the Senate had sent back too.
Yesterday: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/06/presidential-nominations-sent-senate
Today: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/07/presidential-nominations-sent-senate

Asshole Republicans!

p.s. Robert L. Wilkins (D.C. Court of Appeals) was the only judicial nominee that had been held over and not sent back to the White House on Dec 20th.

p.s.s. William Thomas was the 'one' judicial nominee that was 'not' renominated - see below...

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White House Gives Up On William Thomas, Gay Black Judicial Nominee Blocked By Marco Rubio

WASHINGTON -- The White House has thrown in the towel in trying to confirm William Thomas to a federal court seat in Florida, signaling an end to a puzzling case of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) blocking his own judicial nominee.

In a pile of about 200 judicial nominees President Barack Obama resubmitted to the Senate at the start of the year, Thomas was noticeably absent. An administration official confirmed Tuesday that his resubmission isn't coming.

"The nomination of Judge William Thomas was returned by the Senate and Senator Rubio has made his objection clear, so the President chose not to renominate him," the official told The Huffington Post.

Thomas would have made history, if confirmed, as the first openly gay black man to serve as a federal judge.

Rubio has been single-handedly blocking Thomas for months, despite recommending him to Obama in 2012 as a nominee to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Rubio indicated in September he would not submit his "blue slip" to the Senate Judiciary Committee -- a courtesy, but not a hard rule, honored in the committee that allows a home-state senator to advance or hold up a nominee. Florida's other senator, Bill Nelson (D), submitted his blue slip months ago.

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Full article with more details here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/07/marco-rubio-judicial-nominee_n_4557185.html

[Gothmog]

1. This is good news

We need to fill as many of these judicial slots as possible

[BlueCaliDem]

2. I'm happy that he did.

I was upset that the Republicans stalled his nominations and they had to be sent back at the end of the year. I was hoping he would renominate them now that Republicans can't filibuster them anymore.

[LonePirate]

3. I hope most if not all are progressives in the vein of Elizabeth Warren

I also hope many of them are in their 40s so they will serve a good 20+ years.

[davidpdx]

4. Reid needs to ram all of these through at the beginning of the session

[Tx4obama]

5. Reid can NOT do that, because the nominees are now back at the Judiciary Committee level/phase

They will 'all'* have to have be voted out of committee first before they are sent over to Reid and the full Senate.

Now this is where it is going to get messy again.

The last three or four Judiciary Committee executive meetings didn't have a quorum and were canceled due to the Republicans refusing to show up.

Without a quorum there can be no Committee vote on the nominees.

Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Leahy will probably have to change the 'committee rules' otherwise the nominees will be stuck in committee.


*Currently only 'one' judicial nominee is pending at the 'full senate' level, Wilkins (DC Circuit Court of Appeals),
all the others are pending in Committee.

[davidpdx]

6. Which is why the Republicans will continue to play their games

At this rate maybe half will get an actual vote.