Republicans lose control of the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals as the Senate confirms Denny Chin

[usregimechange]

Denny Chin, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
(Justice Sotomayor's old seat)
55yo


Vote Count

YEAs 98
NAYs 0
Not Voting 2
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00123






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Meet Obama's New US Circuit Court Judicial Nominees: O. Rogeriee Thompson and Denny Chin (Tue Oct-06-09)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6711414

Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearing this Wed on Obama 2nd Circuit nominee Denny Chin (Sun Nov-15-09)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7017831

Senate Judiciary Committee sends Denny Chin's nomination to fill Sotomayor's seat to the full Senate (Thu Dec-10-09)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7199726

[drm604]

1. How did they get this past the Repubs?

Did they try to filibuster?

[usregimechange]

3. No, just delayed it for months apparently for no real reason, he was confirmed 98-0

other than, of course to be excellent partisan obstructionists.

[Dappleganger]

2. Nice! nt

[nankerphelge]

4. 3 more to go

[usregimechange]

5. two are already nominated...

Lohier Jr.,Raymond Joseph and
Chatigny,Robert Neil

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. The boilerplate language on all those financial contracts will soon be changed!

Get ready to meet all the corporate scum in America, Alabama. They'll be staying with you for the purpose of dealing with every single contract dispute and lawsuit in America.

[usregimechange]

7. Meaning corporations will move to a more pro-business circuit?

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Ayup

Most financial contracts specify the jurisdiction for adjudication of disputes. They almost uniformly say "2nd Circuit Court" today. I suspect that will change.

[usregimechange]

10. that may be, esp when Lohier gets sent up

[jody]

8. Good news for we Dems but the politicization of our judicial system has destroyed the checks &

balances in our Constitution.

[Tx4obama]

11. K&R n/t

[Tx4obama]

12. Off Topic, but I have to rant and rave about this somewhere :)

I just read an article on CNN regarding Obama vs. Bush regarding who has had it easier on court nominations.
The author of the article must be an idiot!

Excerpt:

Washington (CNN) - According to the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, President Obama has had an easier go than his predecessor when it comes to federal bench nominations.

A look at the record indicates that Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama is right, by two percent.

Wednesday, Sessions countered Democratic complaints about a slow-moving confirmation process when he said, "I do believe we ought not to unnecessarily delay persons, but I would want to say that the alacrity by which President Obama's nominations are moving far surpasses anything like the difficulties President Bush's nominees had. I've been here. I've seen it. I know that to be a fact."

As of the time he made that speech, 20 out of Obama's 60 nominations had been confirmed, coming out to 33 percent, according to records from the Library of Congress. Looking at the same point in the administration of George W. Bush, April 21, 2002, 45 out of 146 Bush nominees were confirmed, giving Bush a 31 percent batting average.

SNIP

"The time from vacancy to nomination during the first 14 months of the Obama administration is longer than under the Bush administration at the same point, especially for circuit nominees," says Brookings' Russell Wheeler.

Full article here: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2010/04/22/obama-vs-bush-who-had-it-easier-on-court-nominations/?fbid=0CG8YjNcju2#more-100852

FIRST of all, calculating the percentage of confirmations to total nominations is IRRELEVANT.

Secondly, the only numbers that matter are: Obama has 20 confirmations compared to Bush's 45 confirmations (for the same time period).

Thirdly, considering Bush had 146 'nominations' compared to Obama's 60 - a person would come to the conclusion that the Senate Judiciary Committee would have less documents to peruse for Obama's nominations and therefore it is OBAMA that should be in the lead of 'confirmations'.

Finally, I cannot believe that CNN would take Senator Session's SPIN on this issue and write up an article that says Sessions is right. He is not right, he is wrong. He is out in the media trying to spin the facts because Democratic Senator Whitehouse and Senator McCaskill called the republicans out on the senator floor Tuesday (April 20th) due to their obstructionist tactics regarding judicial nominations!

Whitehouse on the senate floor: Sen. WhiteHouse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yny0_Hu-1U0
Whitehouse & McCaskill on the senate floor: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/21/gop-objects-and-objects-a_n_546064.html

The republicans are not going to be able to spin themselves out of this due to the FACTS, that is unless the media helps them by not doing their jobs as INTELLIGENT journalists! Grrrr. ;(

[Tx4obama]

13. Update regarding 'secret holds'

Senators ask for end to secret holds

A group of twenty Senate Democrats is urging the upper chamber to end the practice of allowing individual senators to anonymously block votes.

Senators have long been able to block action on any nomination (and sometimes legislation) by placing an anonymous "hold." Twenty Democratic Senators, led by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), are now pushing the Senate to ban that practice.

In a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), the group, argues that the anonymity of secret holds violates the spirit of democracy.

“While we deeply respect and appreciate the importance of tradition in this institution, we believe the practice of the secret hold has no rightful place in the Senate or in an open and transparent democracy," the letter reads. "When a member of the Senate wishes to hold legislation or a nomination, that Senator owes to this body and, more importantly, to the American public a full explanation."

Rest of article here: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/93887-senators-ask-for-end-to-secret-holds