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    Trump Names 13 More Nominees for the Federal Bench

    The White House announced 13 new judicial nominees Wednesday evening, continuing President Donald Trump’s aggressive push to confirm judges to the federal bench.

    The nominations include five picks for appeals courts, and eight for trial court seats, and includes a Big Law presence. All of the nominees on Wednesday’s list are also men.

    Trump named Joseph Bianco, a U.S. district judge in the Eastern District of New York since 2006, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also named Michael Park, a New York-based partner at the firm Consovoy McCarthy Park, to the Second Circuit. Park, an ex-Dechert partner and former DOJ Office of Legal Counsel lawyer, clerked for Justice Samuel Alito on the U.S. Supreme Court, as well as on the Third Circuit.

    The president put forth Patrick Bumatay, a California-based federal prosecutor, for a seat on the Ninth Circuit. Bumatay is currently serving as a counselor to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions on criminal issues, including the opioid crisis and transnational organized crime.

    Trump also nominated two people from prominent law firms to the Ninth Circuit: Daniel Collins, a Munger, Tolles & Olson partner focused on appellate matters and a former Justice Antonin Scalia clerk, and Kenneth Kiyul Lee, a partner at Jenner & Block. Lee, a former lawyer in the George W. Bush White House, also focuses on appellate litigation and internal investigations.

    Three of were nominated to seats in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California: Stanley Blumenfeld, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge currently assigned to the Felony Trial Court; Jeremy Rosen, an LA-based partner at Horvitz & Levy; and Mark Scarsi, managing partner of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy’s Los Angeles office.

    Two others were named to trial court in New York: Philip Halpern, managing partner of Collier, Halpern & Newberg, will be considered for the Southern District of New York, while Thomas Marcelle, a Cohoes City Court judge, was named to the Northern District.

    Trump’s other district court picks include: Brian Buescher, a Kutak Rock partner, for the District of Nebraska; Magistrate Judge Clifton Corker for a seat in the Eastern District of Tennessee; and Ohio Judge Matthew McFarland for a federal judgeship in the Southern District of Ohio.

    https://www.law.com/nationallawjourn...20180911104623
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    Today the Senate is voting on 12 district court judges.

    https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/...86291111038977

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    Senate clash looming over nation's longest judicial vacancy

    By Kevin Kreking
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    Senate Republicans are working to soon fill the nation's longest judicial vacancy with a North Carolina lawyer whose nomination has raised objections from black lawmakers and civil rights groups concerned about his work defending state laws found to have discriminated against African-Americans.

    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has helped push 84 of President Donald Trump's nominees over the finish line and is itching for more. With just a few more weeks to go before Congress adjourns for the year, he has teed up a vote on the nomination of Thomas Farr, 64, to serve as a district court judge in North Carolina.

    The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Farr's confirmation with a party-line vote back in January, meaning McConnell has waited about 10 months and until after the midterm elections to hold a vote on the floor.

    Senators tend to save their biggest fights in the judicial arena for Supreme Court and appeals court nominees, but Farr's nomination has proved an exception.

    "It's hard to believe President Trump nominated him, and it's even harder to believe the Senate Republicans are considering it again," said Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York in one of about 20 tweets he has sent out in recent days concerning Farr.

    Farr has the backing of home-state Sens. Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, both Republicans. They have noted that Farr was also nominated to the same position by former President George W. Bush and has a "well qualified" rating from the American Bar Association. They have protested the implication that Farr is racially insensitive or biased.

    "I think absolutely destroying a good man's reputation is inappropriate," Tillis said before the committee advanced Farr's nomination.

    In introducing Farr last year, Burr said the judiciary needs good people and he "fills every piece of the word good."

    But Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., described Farr as "probably the worst of the litter" when it comes to Trump's judicial nominees.

    "Could this administration have picked an individual who is more hostile to the rights of minorities than this man? It is hard to imagine," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said in the same committee hearing.

    GOP leaders in charge of the North Carolina Legislature hired Farr and others at his firm to defend congressional and legislative boundaries that the Legislature approved in 2011. A federal court eventually struck some boundaries down as racial gerrymanders and the Supreme Court affirmed that decision.

    Farr also helped defend a 2013 law that required photo identification to vote, reduced the number of early voting days and eliminated same-day registration during that period.

    North Carolina Republicans said that requiring voter ID would increase the integrity of elections. But the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the state provided no evidence of the kind of in-person voter fraud the ID mandate would address. The Richmond, Virginia-based court said the law targeted black voters "with almost surgical precision."

    Farr told lawmakers that, as an advocate, he vehemently disagreed with the argument that the North Carolina Legislature sought to curtail the voting rights of people of color or any other voter. But, said, "I am obligated to follow the decision by the 4th Circuit and pledge that I will do so."

    The history of the particular judicial opening Farr would fill has also contributed to the acrimony.

    President Barack Obama nominated two African-American women to serve on the court, but neither was granted a hearing and their nominations stalled. If confirmed, they would have been the first blacks to serve in that particular district, which is about 27 percent black.

    Farr also served as a lawyer for the re-election campaign of Republican Sen. Jesse Helms in 1990. The Justice Department alleged that about 120,000 postcards sent overwhelmingly to black voters before that election was intended to intimidate them from voting.

    Farr said he was not consulted about the postcards and did not have any role in drafting or sending them. He said that after he had been asked to review the card, "I was appalled to read the incorrect language printed on the card and to then discover it had been sent to African Americans."

    The explanation has failed to win over the NAACP.

    "The courts are supposed to be where we can find and seek justice. But Farr's lifetime crusade is to disenfranchise African Americans and deprive them of their rights," said Hilary Shelton, director of the NAACP's Washington bureau. "He belongs nowhere near a bench of justice."

    Democratic lawmakers called on the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, to schedule Farr for another round of testimony about his role in the Helms' campaign, but Grassley declined.

    With a 51-49 majority, Republicans will have little margin for error in confirming Farr.

    Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., has already pledged to oppose all judicial nominees until he gets a vote on legislation to protect special counsel Robert Mueller.

    https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...story,amp.html

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    GOP Senator Tim Scott Sinks Another Controversial Trump Nominee

    By Joshua Roberts
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    Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) brought down another Trump nominee Thursday, announcing he would oppose Thomas Farr’s nomination to be a federal judge in North Carolina. Scott, who is African-American, criticized Farr’s record on race issues.

    Farr worked as a lawyer for Jesse Helms and has been accused of crafting voter-suppression measures in North Carolina.

    Scott joined Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and all Democrats in opposing Farr, whose nomination was scheduled for a final vote next week.

    Earlier this year, Scott tanked another Trump nominee, Ryan Bounds, over racially insensitive writings.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-se...-trump-nominee
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    Farr is 64 years old, "Farr" too old to be nominated. We need young blood on the courts - like Andy Oldham, Britt Grant, and others. Someone older than 50 should only be nominated if extremely stellar. 55-60 should be a hard expiration date.
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    Did Trump renominate any of the neutral/failed Obama picks for the judiciary?

    So far the only one I could find was James Wesley Hendrix.
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    Senate Republicans Press Ahead With Plan to Speed Up Confirmations

    By Steven T. Dennis
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    Senate Republicans are pushing ahead with a plan to dramatically speed confirmation of most of President Donald Trump’s nominations, blaming Democratic obstruction for lengthy delays that sap floor time.

    Rules Chairman Roy Blunt and Republican James Lankford have proposed a measure that would limit debate on most nominees to just two hours of floor time, with Blunt planning to push the rules change through his committee Wednesday.

    Major nominations such as cabinet officials, circuit court judges and Supreme Court picks would still have up to 30 hours of debate before a final vote.

    Blunt said Tuesday the Democratic minority has abused their right to demand 30 hours of debate and it’s time to change the rules as a result.

    "With President Trump, it’s been 55 days from the time we get a nominee out of committee until the Democrats finally will allow that nominee to come to the floor," Blunt said. Blunt also said Democrats have forced 128 votes to cut off debate on nominees in the last Congress despite many of those nominees getting 70 votes or more.

    Blunt also complained that rarely did the hours of debate forced by Democrats result in actual floor debate on the nominees themselves.

    "It is clearly an attempt just to use up time to not let the president have the team he needs in place to run the government and not to let us have the legislative time we need," Blunt said.

    Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said he would oppose the rules change without concessions to Democrats.

    "Unless they go back to 60 votes or restore the blue slips, either one, then there’s a reason to move along," said Schumer of New York. "Not if they have monopoly power."

    Senate Republicans have angered Democrats by repeatedly violating a "blue slip" tradition of only moving forward with judicial nominations when home-state senators sign off on their selection.

    Democrats also complained when McConnell and Republicans eliminated the 60-vote threshold for ending filibusters on Supreme Court nominees -- years after Democrats did the same for other nominations.

    If Democrats don’t agree to the changes, many Republicans said they are prepared to change the rules by a majority vote. Republicans and Democrats have previously used a simple majority, known as the "nuclear option," to change the rules for confirming nominations.

    The move would free up time to fulfill Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s top priority: confirming as many conservative judges as possible.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-confirmations

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    The Senate is currently voting to invoke cloture on S.Res.50. Which will limit debate to 2 hours on lower level nominees, such as Federal District Court Judges. Currently debate time is 30 hours, and democrats have invoked it on almost every single nominee that Trump has nominated.

    https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s...16sres50is.pdf
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    The Senate did not invoke the bill 51-48.

    https://twitter.com/SenateCloakroom/...49977029750785

    Amazing that some of the R's still believe that the other party which at this point is advocating for general socialism won't change the rules once they get into power.

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    "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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    51 votes isn't enough? Do they need 60?
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