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    Actually check Kanne's Wikipedia article it says his retirement was scuttled by disagreements with Trump and Pence.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

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    It's been noted that Candace Jackson-Akiwumi, a Biden judge for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals hasn't written an opinion for a single thing since she was appointed in July. Which is a federal record.
    "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

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    One thing I will add to Ed Whelan’s theory about it being because she was under consideration for Breyer’s seat is since she was a public defender in the Northern District of Illinois at the time of her confirmation that she’s recusing herself from all criminal cases for at least a year. I know Thomas Cullen did that once he was confirmed to the Western District of Virginia.

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    Biden gains 6th Circuit vacancy to fill as Gibbons takes senior status

    (Reuters) - U.S. Circuit Judge Julia Smith Gibbons plans to step down from active service on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, opening a fourth seat for President Joe Biden to fill on the Cincinnati-based federal appeals court.

    Gibbons, an appointee of former Republican President George W. Bush, on Friday confirmed reports that she plans to assume senior status upon the confirmation of her successor after serving 40 years as a member of the federal judiciary, including 21 years on the regional appeals court.

    Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for judges over the age of 65 who have completed at least 15 years on the federal bench. Presidents may name new full-time judges to fill those judges' seats.

    Biden, a Democrat, has already named three other judges to the court, U.S. Circuit Judges Stephanie Davis, Andre Mathis and Rachel Bloomekatz. They are among the six active Democratic appointees, who serve with 10 Republican appointees.

    Biden has secured Senate confirmation for 36 judges to the nation's circuit courts overall.

    Gibbons, a 72-year-old native of Tennessee, has served more than half of her life as a judge, beginning in 1981, when then-Governor Lamar Alexander tapped her to become the first woman to ever serve as a trial court judge in the state.

    Republican President Ronald Reagan nominated her in 1983 to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, and Bush in 2002 elevated her to a position on the 6th Circuit, which hears cases from Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.

    She has served key positions within the federal judiciary, including as chair of the Judicial Conference's Budget Committee from 2005 to 2018 and member of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation from 2000 to 2003.

    As a judge on the 6th Circuit, she was the dissenting vote in a 2-1 ruling in 2011 declaring that a Michigan ban on affirmative action in college admissions that was passed as a ballot initiative in 2006 was unconstitutional.

    The U.S. Supreme Court took that case up and in 2014 upheld the ban. Nearly a decade later, the conservative-majority high court this June ruled that universities nationwide could not consider race as a specific factor in college admissions.

    In 2021, Gibbons joined an appointee of a Democratic president in a 2-1 ruling reviving the Biden administration's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal employees and contractors. In a concurring opinion, she stressed the "limited role of the judiciary in this dispute about pandemic policy."

    https://www.reuters.com/legal/govern...us-2023-08-18/

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    Would’ve been nice if she did this in 2020 instead.

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    Based on her prior rulings, it’s clear she was one of Bush’s blue slip consensus (i.e. liberal) appointees so her waiting till now isn’t surprising

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    Tennessee had two GOP senators in 2002, so blue slips wouldn’t have been an issue. Just another Sununu pushing for Souter.

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    My G-d that family continues to find ways to make me dislike them.

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    US appeals judge, 96, suspended in rare clash over fitness

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday suspended Judge Pauline Newman from hearing new cases amid a deepening clash over the 96-year-old jurist's mental competence to serve on the bench.

    A council of judges on the Washington, D.C., court unanimously said Newman had failed to cooperate with an investigation into her fitness and barred her from hearing new cases for at least one year or until she sits for court-ordered medical examinations.

    "We are acutely aware that this is not a fitting capstone to Judge Newman's exemplary and storied career," the council said, but added it had no choice when "a judge of this Court is no longer capable of performing the duties of her judicial office."

    Such a public and contentious internal dispute over competency is highly unusual in the federal judiciary. Newman has defended her fitness, citing the opinions of two doctors, and filed a lawsuit in a separate Washington court seeking to move or halt the investigation.

    Newman's attorney Greg Dolin said on Wednesday that the council was "ignoring data or information or opinions that are inconsistent with its predetermined goals and outcomes," and that the judge would challenge the order and continue to press her claims in court.

    A representative for the Federal Circuit declined to comment.

    Newman, a highly-respected figure in patent law and a prominent dissenter, was appointed to the patent-focused Federal Circuit by President Ronald Reagan in 1984. The court's chief judge said in orders made public in April that Newman showed signs of cognitive and physical impairment and accused her of refusing to cooperate with inquiries into her mental health.

    Court employees also described "memory loss, confusion, paranoia and angry rants" by Newman, according to documents released in August.

    Newman's attorneys said in a response to the council made public on Wednesday that the committee investigating her fitness was "interested in one thing and one thing only - keeping Judge Newman off the bench via the exercise of raw power."

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us...D=ansmsnnews11

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