9th Circuit loses a conservative judge, awaits confirmation of new members

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Chief Justice John Roberts, right, talks with Judge Andrew Kleinfeld of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals after Roberts spoke at Alaska Bar Association convention in Fairbanks, Alaska, Thursday, May 3, 2007.


Judge Andrew Jay Kleinfeld will take senior status in a few days and provide Obama with another opportunity to dramatically change the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Kleinfeld who was nominated by Ronald Reagan on March 26, 1986 to the District bench and nominated by George H.W. Bush on May 23, 1991 to the 9th Circuit is considered a conservative member of the nation's most liberal Circuit court.

The loss of a Republican nominee will result in this composition of the court as of June 12th 2010:




Pending 9th Circuit nominations


Goodwin Liu, Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law
Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Pending full Senate confirmation vote
39 Years Old.


Judge Mary Murguia, U. S. District Court, District of Arizona
Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Pending hearing and action by the Judiciary Committee
49 years old

Vacant seat 5 (no nominations for yet)

Vacant seat 12 (the seat discussed above)


9th Circuit map

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. kick

[usregimechange]

2. You are lucky, I am in the 8th circuit, we have a majority Dubya court

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. Maybe Obama will have the opportunity to fix that one day

[usregimechange]

4. Maybe but there are a lot of young Republican nominees there, one Reagan nominee though

[FreeState]

5. Prop 8 federal trial will end up in the 9th circuit court of appeals

Here is to hoping we get a few more people that will vote to overturn it before it makes it there!

[usregimechange]

6. Liu should be there by this fall - if we can get to 60