jimnyc
05-17-2019, 11:41 AM
How great would that be? He's already filling up the courts already with some great judges - but to turn around, or what I would say FIX the worst court in America, would be fantastic.
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Trump on Track to Flip the Ninth Circuit to Republican by 2020
With the confirmation of Kenneth Kiyul Lee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, President Trump is on track to flip the notoriously liberal court to Republican by 2020.
According to National Review's Ed Whelan, Lee will be filling a seat that was held for decades by "arch-activist Stephen Reinhardt."
And there's nothing but good news for Republicans on the horizon, Whelan says:
Up soon for a floor vote—next week, I hope—should be Ninth Circuit nominee Daniel P. Collins. [Update (3 p.m.): Cloture has been filed on the Collins nomination, so it should be voted on next week.] Collins would fill the seat long held by Harry Pregerson, the Ninth Circuit judge with the strongest claim to rival Reinhardt in lawless willfulness.
The appointments of Lee and Collins would give the Ninth Circuit 11 Republican appointees versus 16 Democratic appointees, with two remaining vacancies. At the start of the Trump administration, the Ninth Circuit had 19 Democratic appointees, only 6 Republican appointees, and four vacancies.
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/trump-on-track-to-flip-the-ninth-circuit-to-republican-by-2020/
Trump Gets Another Judge on the Ninth Circuit Over Democrat Objections
President Trump has been remaking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, shifting further and further to the right. On Wednesday he got another victory with the confirmation of Kenneth Lee in a 52-45 vote. And Democrats are really miffed about this one.
Lee's confirmation came despite neither Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, nor Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a 2020 presidential contender, returning a blue slip on his nomination.
The blue-slip rule — a precedent upheld by Senate tradition — has historically allowed a home-state senator to stop a lower-court nominee by refusing to return the blue slip to the Judiciary Committee. How strictly the precedent is upheld is decided by the committee chairman, and enforcement has varied depending on who wields the gavel.
Lee who had a unanimously "well qualified” rating from the American Bar Association, is Trump’s 40th circuit judge to be confirmed, even though Democrats were hoping to block his nomination.
Since the Democrats don’t have a majority in the Senate, and Harry Reid nuked the filibuster back in 2013, Democrats were hoping to use the blue slip tradition to obstruct Trump’s judges, even though it was not meant to be a de facto veto on judicial nominees, and according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), “over the century of the use of the blue slip, different chairmen have used the blue slip in different ways.”
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/trump-gets-another-judge-on-the-ninth-circuit-over-democrat-objections/
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Trump on Track to Flip the Ninth Circuit to Republican by 2020
With the confirmation of Kenneth Kiyul Lee to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday, President Trump is on track to flip the notoriously liberal court to Republican by 2020.
According to National Review's Ed Whelan, Lee will be filling a seat that was held for decades by "arch-activist Stephen Reinhardt."
And there's nothing but good news for Republicans on the horizon, Whelan says:
Up soon for a floor vote—next week, I hope—should be Ninth Circuit nominee Daniel P. Collins. [Update (3 p.m.): Cloture has been filed on the Collins nomination, so it should be voted on next week.] Collins would fill the seat long held by Harry Pregerson, the Ninth Circuit judge with the strongest claim to rival Reinhardt in lawless willfulness.
The appointments of Lee and Collins would give the Ninth Circuit 11 Republican appointees versus 16 Democratic appointees, with two remaining vacancies. At the start of the Trump administration, the Ninth Circuit had 19 Democratic appointees, only 6 Republican appointees, and four vacancies.
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/trump-on-track-to-flip-the-ninth-circuit-to-republican-by-2020/
Trump Gets Another Judge on the Ninth Circuit Over Democrat Objections
President Trump has been remaking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, shifting further and further to the right. On Wednesday he got another victory with the confirmation of Kenneth Lee in a 52-45 vote. And Democrats are really miffed about this one.
Lee's confirmation came despite neither Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Calif.), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, nor Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), a 2020 presidential contender, returning a blue slip on his nomination.
The blue-slip rule — a precedent upheld by Senate tradition — has historically allowed a home-state senator to stop a lower-court nominee by refusing to return the blue slip to the Judiciary Committee. How strictly the precedent is upheld is decided by the committee chairman, and enforcement has varied depending on who wields the gavel.
Lee who had a unanimously "well qualified” rating from the American Bar Association, is Trump’s 40th circuit judge to be confirmed, even though Democrats were hoping to block his nomination.
Since the Democrats don’t have a majority in the Senate, and Harry Reid nuked the filibuster back in 2013, Democrats were hoping to use the blue slip tradition to obstruct Trump’s judges, even though it was not meant to be a de facto veto on judicial nominees, and according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS), “over the century of the use of the blue slip, different chairmen have used the blue slip in different ways.”
Rest - https://pjmedia.com/trending/trump-gets-another-judge-on-the-ninth-circuit-over-democrat-objections/