Page 16 of 28 FirstFirst ... 6141516171826 ... LastLast
Results 151 to 160 of 279

Thread: United States Courts of Appeals

  1. #151
    Senior Member CnCP Addict johncocacola's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Posts
    643
    I hope the 3rd Circuit rules NJ's may issue concealed carry law unconstitutional.

    And as I've mentioned a few times, I have big concerns about democrats overriding the blue slip when they get back in power.

    Although you can make an argument that bending the blue slip is inevitable and republicans might as well take advantage of it while they're in power.

  2. #152
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Mike's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2015
    Location
    Pennsylvania
    Posts
    4,795
    Seeing how judges like Reinhardt, Pregerson, and Sotomayor got onto the courts, I think we will see more of the same, activist judges. All these rules in place didn't stop them from getting onto the bench.

  3. #153
    Senior Member CnCP Addict johncocacola's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Posts
    643
    That's because democrats controlled the senate and they were nominated in states with two democratic senators who returned blue slips or didn't need a blue slip on the Supreme Court.

    What democrats couldn't do with the blue slip was put judges like that in states with two republican senators like the 5th circuit that republican senators could keep open for Trump to fill.

    With the blue slip gone a democratic president and democratic senate could now pack the 5th or 11th circuit against the wish of the states two republican senators.


    Speaking of Reinhardt and Pregerson, a hearing to fill their seats is tomorrow.

  4. #154
    Administrator Aaron's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2015
    Location
    New Jersey, unfortunately
    Posts
    4,382
    First and foremost, NJ's magazine restrictions need to be brought before an en banc court. The constitution will win, especially when Trump fills the other vacancy and the court is 8 to 6.

    The democrats probably will take power in 2020, so it is essential to pack as many young conservatives as possible. Don't let the next democrat president inherit a single vacancy.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

  5. #155
    Administrator Aaron's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2015
    Location
    New Jersey, unfortunately
    Posts
    4,382
    Neomi Rao confirmed to the DC Circuit.

    https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/...239916033?s=19
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

    "They will hurt you. They will hurt your grandma, these people. The root cause of this is there's no discipline in the homes, they don't go to school, you know, they live off the government, no personal accountability, and they just beat people up for no reason, and it's disgusting." - Former Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters

  6. #156
    Moderator Dave from Florida's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2012
    Location
    Florida
    Posts
    810
    Quote Originally Posted by johncocacola View Post
    That's because democrats controlled the senate and they were nominated in states with two democratic senators who returned blue slips or didn't need a blue slip on the Supreme Court.

    What democrats couldn't do with the blue slip was put judges like that in states with two republican senators like the 5th circuit that republican senators could keep open for Trump to fill.

    With the blue slip gone a democratic president and democratic senate could now pack the 5th or 11th circuit against the wish of the states two republican senators.


    Speaking of Reinhardt and Pregerson, a hearing to fill their seats is tomorrow.
    Reinhardt and Pregerson were placed on the 9th Circuit back in the late 1970's. I doubt they had blue slips back then.

  7. #157
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Mike's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2015
    Location
    Pennsylvania
    Posts
    4,795
    The senate was using blue slips for the CCA's since the 50's.

  8. #158
    Senior Member CnCP Addict johncocacola's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2013
    Posts
    643
    1917 is when they were created to be exact. They just didn't become political until the 90's.

  9. #159
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Mike's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2015
    Location
    Pennsylvania
    Posts
    4,795
    This is the second Circuit Court that Trump will flip.

    Connecticut’s Judge Christopher Droney to retire, creating vacancy for President Trump to fill on Second Circuit Court of Appeals

    By Edmund H. Mahony
    The Hartford Courant

    Federal appeals Judge Christopher F. Droney disclosed Monday that he is retiring from active judicial service, a decision certain to focus attention on how President Trump, who has vowed to remake the federal judiciary, chooses a lawyer from Connecticut to fill a vacancy on one of the nation’s most influential courts.

    Droney notified the judiciary by letter that he will assume senior status June 30 on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As a senior judge, Droney remains a member of the court, but with reduced responsibilities. His seat, one of two from Connecticut, will become vacant.

    In any circumstance, the competition for prestigious, life-time appointments to the federal courts is intense. But both interest and speculation will grow in coming months because of Trump’s promises – and by most accounts, his successes – in making judicial appointments designed to move the federal judiciary to the right.

    Since his election, Trump has largely left the appointments of U.S. District Court Judges to state political interests. He has chosen instead to exercise his appointment powers at the federal circuit courts, such as the second, and the U.S. Supreme Court, where decisions typically have greater reach.

    Half way through his first term, Trump has nominated – and the U.S. Senate’s Republican majority has confirmed - two justices to the Supreme Court, both considered conservative, and dozens of judges to the circuit courts.

    Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor who writes frequently on judicial appointments, said Trump recently succeeded - with his narrow Senate majority - in pushing through sharply conservative circuit court nominees to the 9th Circuit in California and to the 2nd in New York, in spite of strong opposition from influential home-state, Democratic Senators Diane Feinstein and Chuck Schumer.

    Among other things, the Senate’s GOP-controlled Judiciary Committee has given the Trump administration an assist by changing the rules regarding a parliamentary practice known as the blue slip, which allowed home state Senators to single-handedly kill the nomination of a judicial appointee from their state.

    Connecticut U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal, a judiciary member and sharp Trump critic, said – in the face of evidence to the contrary – he is not entirely persuaded the blue slip has been killed as a tool for those challenging circuit court nominations. He also promised to closely examine anyone Trump nominates to the second circuit

    “The GOP leadership has run roughshod over long accepted practices,” Blumenthal said. “Trump is very aggressively trying to remake the image of the judiciary in the image of the far right fringe.”

    Blumenthal, along with Connecticut’s other democratic U.S. Senator, Christopher Murphy, have appointed committees recently to screen federal judicial nominees. Blumenthal said they are likely to do so again in an effort to expand the pool of candidates seeking Droney’s seat.

    The second circuit court of appeals has jurisdiction over and takes appeals from the federal courts in Connecticut, New York and Vermont. Its decisions in complex commercial matters arising in New York, and to a lesser degree Connecticut have made it one of the most important circuits of the 13 across the country.

    Connecticut has seats for two active judges on the circuit court – Droney’s as well as that of Susan Carney. Both were appointed by President Barrack Obama in 2011. Droney served as U.S. Attorney and a federal district judge before his appointment. Carney, one of the relatively rare non jurists appointed, was Deputy General Counsel of Yale University.

    Federal judicial vacancies usually attract wide interest among lawyers. There was little speculation Monday about who might be interested, because word of Droney’s decision had not yet spread among the bar.

    Nominees to a Connecticut seat on the appeals court have in the past usually come from sitting Connecticut district court judges. But the sitting judges who would normally be considered for Droney’s seat – by age and experience - are Democrats, appointed by Democratic administrations.

    Some observers were looking for conservative state court judges or law school professors. Other’s predicted the conservative Federalist Society would present the administration with a list of vetted candidates.

    Droney is a former mayor of West Hartford and U.S. Attorney for Connecticut. He served as a U.S. District Court Judge before his appointment to the Second Circuit.

    https://www.courant.com/politics/hc-...7zi-story.html
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

  10. #160
    Senior Member CnCP Legend Mike's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2015
    Location
    Pennsylvania
    Posts
    4,795
    Senior Circuit Judge of the Sixth Circuit Damon Keith died yesterday on the 28th. Arguably the most liberal justice on it.
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

Page 16 of 28 FirstFirst ... 6141516171826 ... LastLast

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •