Regarding President Obama's Federal Judiciary Appointments

[Tx4obama]

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The pace of nominations and confirmations has increased since the start of the Obama administration. In the first five months of 2011, Obama nominated more judges than in all of 2009. And while Obama lags behind George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in the number of appointees at this point in their presidencies, most of the gap is on the district court level, not the high-profile circuit court level. Obama, unlike Bush in his first two years, also has appointed two Supreme Court justices.

As the political scientists note, Obama has appointed a far more diverse group, by gender and race, than any other president. Half of the district and circuit judges confirmed during 2009 and 2010 are women, compared to 21% under Bush and 31% under Clinton. Also among Obama’s appointees his first two years, 27% are black, 10% are Asian-American and 7% are Hispanic. He has put forward three openly gay nominees.

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http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/07/obamas-nominations-team-described-as-insular-lacking-energy-.html

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Related link:
List of federal judges appointed by Barack Obama
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Barack_Obama

[NorthCarolina]

1. I wonder how many of those appointments are Republicans. n/t

[Tx4obama]

2. Considering the number of judicial nominees the Senate GOP has blocked and filibustered...

the answer would be NONE.

The dems have had to fight to get just about every one of the nominees confirmed.

The Senate dems even proposed a rule change to change the 'secret hold' procedure so that the GOP would have to stop obstructing the confirmation process.

[tekisui]

7. None?

He nominated 4 repugs in Texas and another repug in Utah, that I know of.

[Tx4obama]

15. The four nominees in Texas and the one in Utah were appointed to be District Attorneys.

That has NOTHING to do with Federal Judicial appointments.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Does it matter? Should political affiliation determine eligibility for the court?

Isn't justice blind? I can't believe you would suggest that party affiliation should determine one's fitness for the court. Monica Goodling & Karl Rove already tried that, remember the DOJ scandal? Why would we want to travel down that same bad road? :shrug:

[OwnedByFerrets]

4. Well....yes I would

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. Yeah, I know, and you're emblematic of what's wrong with the entire system.

You've somehow managed to justify the politicization of everything. When a judge puts on the robe, he/she should check their politics & ideology at the door. It's sad, but so many of us have become what we claimed to despise. It's their record that should qualify them for the bench, not who they "pledge" to vote for. :eyes:

[tekisui]

9. Should is far different from reality. Get a clue.

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[Tarheel_Dem]

13. "that are justice system".

I think you meant "our", but I try to make allowances in special cases. "Naive"; "intentionally obtuse"? You're on a roll. :rofl:

[TheKentuckian]

14. When I see Alito and Roberts, I say yes, best not to risk appointing a fascist.

in these times. Since Souter the pukes have stepped up their filtering and specialize in nutjobs.

I'm feeling that many Democrats are too damn risky to appoint but a Republican, not in these times.

Playing this game is a loser because the opposition doesn't see it your way so they appoint straight crazoids and we'll allow them anyone that isn't a complete and utter joke from a credential standpoint. Meanwhile, we pretend Justice is blind or roll over for obstruction and nominate their nutjobs too along with whatever moderate types they won't meltdown over and inevitably the system moves toward their fucked up interpretations.

If liberal judges are off limits then so should be conservatives.

[OwnedByFerrets]

16. And you seem to be stuck in the past where

politics didnt play a HUGE part of everything in our lives. The rules have changed for the worse and if you dont play by THESE set of rules, you lose. We lose. And, if you think that putting on a black robe suddenly makes a person NON partison, you really are naive.

[Tarheel_Dem]

18. And you seem to have embraced it. Pretty sad, really.

:eyes:

[OwnedByFerrets]

19. No, circumstances have made me a realist. My glass is always

half empty. Didnt use to be that way, but it certainly is now. I may be sad, but I am not naive.

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[vaberella]

6. Well, I'm not sure if he's taken an appointment. But one of the Gay judges was nominated by Repubs.

Judges are supposed to be devoid of this left/right leaning thing and what is to be focused on is what they say for trials----and even then one doesn't know. Judge Stevens--one of the last standing LIBERAL judges was a self-proclaimed Conservative.


Politics isn't Black and White. You might want to grow up and realize that.

[tekisui]

10. Stevens was of a dying breed. Look at the current make-up of

the Supreme Court and you will realize your insult is not warranted.

[Bluenorthwest]

17. Of course this is a slippery argument to be making...

Nomination of SCOTUS justices is one of the last ditch reasons for any voter to vote for a candidate they might not be so keen on overall. If this crazy, nonsensical 'politics don't matter on the bench' routine carries on, it could be concluded that when SCOTUS time comes around, the President might nominate a right wing Republican because "Judges are supposed to" thinking.
So if nomination of justices is to be done on a 'bipartisan' basis, and we could get another Fat Tony out of Obama, just so he can show how nonpartisan he is, we lose a large selling point to those sitting on the cusp looking for some reason to excuse another vote for drones and 'one man one woman' religionism.

[Tx4obama]

20. Which gay judge? Are you talking about the openly gay 'District Attorney' that Obama nominated? n/t