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The Judiciary at Noon, #27: June 14 to 20, 2024

Keep up-to-date on the US federal judiciary, June 14 to 20, 2024.

Anthony Myrlados
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Welcome to The Judiciary at Noon! Take a break from work to get an update on the oft-neglected third branch of the United States government, the judicial branch.

The series covers any updates to the federal judiciary, including any new judges confirmed, any deaths, resignations, or retirements from the courts, and any new vacancies that have occurred. It includes political analysis at the very end. All information spans the previous week.

Confirmations

No federal judges were confirmed for the week spanning June 14 to 20, 2024.

Vacancies

No new vacancies occurred on the federal judiciary for the week spanning June 14 to 20, 2024. 72 vacancies remain on the federal judiciary, a number unchanged from a week ago.

Retirements, Deaths, and Resignations

No judges died, retired, or resigned for the week spanning June 14 to 20, 2024.

Other

  • Jun. 18, 2024: Katherine Ellsworth Oler was confirmed to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
  • Jun. 20, 2024: The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on four nominees to the federal judiciary, two to district courts and two to the appellate judiciary.

Analysis

The Senate will take the next two-and-a-half weeks off and reconvene on July 8th. That means Democrats have concluded the month of June, 2024 without confirming a single federal judge.

Mustafa Taher Kasubhai, nominee to the District of Oregon, was slated to be voted on and confirmed on Tuesday, June 18th, but Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer cancelled the vote at the last minute.

Cloture was invoked on Nancy Lee Maldonado, nominee to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, on Thursday, June 20th. There is a vote scheduled to confirm Maldonado as soon as the Senate returns on July 8th.

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That’s it for this week’s The Judiciary at Noon. This has been Anthony Myrlados. I’ll see you next noon and until then I wish you all an enjoyable weekend.

2 responses to “The Judiciary at Noon, #27: June 14 to 20, 2024”

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    Although it was a partly disappointing week due to the confirmation of Mustafa Kashubhai has not taken place due to the absence of some Democratic Senators, the confirmation of Katherine Oler to the Superior Court of the District of Columbia is very important, I know many people say, floor time and votes are not worth to confirm uncontroversial nominees with few influence, but if the Republicans allow no voice votes, they have to be confirmed, as the court is close to the collapse with almost 20% posts vacant, no full bench for more than ten years and a sharply growing number of cases. I don’t see a full bench at the end of the year, but hope at least the three remaining nominees who are already waiting for a floor vote and the five waiting for a committee vote will make it.
    The court is also fighting with other problems, now three magistrate judges have been confirmed and will hit the ground running without much orientation time, but before their old posts are backfilled, there is no relief, although with ten more open vacancies, that doesn’t make a huge difference in the workload, but there might be a positive effect for the sitting judges, seeing, that reinforcement is underway.
    Because of the high caseload the jobs are not really popular, and the pool of applicants is mostly the same one. In the moment, there are still qualified applicants, but many of the judges are over sixty years old and will probably also leave soon.
    The Senate has filled half of the vacancies in 2022 and 2023, while other ones opened, and made the situation just becoming worse, but not more, so we have to keep and eye on it in the future, too.

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      Anthony Myrlados

      Thanks for your comment. It was indeed disappointing to see Kasubhai’s confirmation pulled. There are about 10 vacancies on the DC Superior Court our of 62 judges. For the current Senate, 62 judges is too high a number. That’s why I support bloc voting. The remaining 7 or 8 nominees should be voted on as a bloc. He’ll, why is the Senate even voting on what are essentially state court judges? Let DC appoint its own judges.

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