Obama nominates new Assistant Administrator of the US Agency for International Development!!!

[usregimechange]

But still no new judicial nominations including to the US DC Circuit where there have been 2 vacancies since he took office. Apparently he needs an additional year to find a suitable nominee.

I could find one in about 30 minutes that would be better than his current choice of no one.

[MadMaddie]

1. Here is some nifty research to refute your statement

http://www.afj.org/check-the-facts/nominees/afj-report-state-of-the-judiciary-obama-at-20-months.pdf

Senate Republicans have placed secret holds on each of President Obama’s judicial nominees currently on the Senate floor, even on those that are uncontroversial and have the support of Republican home-state senators.

• The political motivation for the Republicans’ tactics of delay and obstruction are made clear by the fact that 13 of the nominees they are currently blocking were reported out ofthe Senate Judiciary Committee on unanimous, bipartisan voice votes, and another sailed
through with only one Republican opposing.

• Of the 17 nominees who have been blocked from receiving final floor votes after being approved by the Judiciary Committee, nine would fill seats considered to be “judicial emergencies”


Stonewalling blocks more of Obama judge nominees than Nixon's
http://www.cleveland.com/nation/index.ssf/2010/09/stonewalling_blocks_more_of_ob.html


If you would like I can find the list of ALL nominees held up by the damn Republicans....

Some of President Obama's choices for federal courts have been through the nomination process two or three times, without success, because of Republican objections. They include this group, known to some GOP aides on Capitol Hill as the "fringe five":


-- Louis B. Butler Jr., nominated to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin.


-- Robert N. Chatigny, nominated to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the 2nd Circuit.


-- Edward M. Chen, nominated to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of California.


-- Goodwin Liu, nominated to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the 9th Circuit.


-- John J. McConnell Jr., nominated to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Rhode Island.

[usregimechange]

2. All of which has nothing to do with his not making nominations to the DC Circuit

[MadMaddie]

3. Your statement "still no new judicial nominations including to the US DC Circuit "

was not exclusive of all other judicial nominations and that is what I was pointing out.


Here is a great interactive page (I just think it's cool)
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/2009/federal-appointments/

[usregimechange]

4. The 9th Circuit has a seat that has been vacant since 2004, with no nominee

But thanks for posting the link. Here is another one you might like if you haven't seen it already.

http://judicialnominations.org/

[Tx4obama]

6. Here's a link to an easy to view list

Obama's Judicial Appointments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Barack_Obama
There have been no 'new' judicial appointments since July (the ones listed for September are re-appointments that had been sent back to the White House by the senate before their last recess.

[Canuckistanian]

5. Finally, an AA for the USAID

I was beginning to wonder if the position had been FUBARed by the PTB or the CIA.

TGIF. Or is that TGIM?