The Judiciary at Noon, #35: August 9 to 15, 2024

Keep up-to-date on the US federal judiciary, August 9 to 15, 2024.

August 16, 2024

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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 new judges were confirmed for the week spanning August 9 to 15, 2024.

Vacancies

Aug. 9, 2024: Judge Geoffrey William Crawford of the District of Vermont assumed senior status, opening up a vacancy on that court.

70 vacancies remain on the federal judiciary, a number unchanged from a week ago.

Retirements, Deaths, and Resignations

No federal judges retired, died, or resigned in the week of August 9 to 15, 2024.

Other

Judges Seated

Aug. 13, 2024: Joseph Francis Saporito Jr. assumed his duties as a judge of the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Analysis

There remains a hidden vacancy on the Middle District of North Carolina reported in a Bloomberg Law article that I haven’t reported yet because it hasn’t been listed by uscourts.gov.

Other than that, there’s really not much for me to add this week. The Senate will be on break until September 9th, so there isn’t much happening. So I’ll let you off early this time. Enjoy your Friday.

SIGN-OFF

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.

One response to “The Judiciary at Noon, #35: August 9 to 15, 2024”

Anonymous

August 17, 2024 at 1:59 am

Not pretty eventful weeks…

But an additional note is, that Crawford immediately landed on the list of judicial emergencies, that’s not a surprising fact, because after he went senior, half of the manpower is gone (not really, because he stay in active senior status, he’s still there with lighter caseload), but the number of judicial vacancies have almost doubled in the last six weeks (from 12 to 21 now), because all the Eastern District of Missouri and Alaska vacancies have then appeared at once, and just 6 of them are in blue states, so I expect the number not shrinking, the vacancy at the Northern District of Illinois earlier this month has just not appeared because the senate had previously confirmed the successor, but there are more to come in October and November (I see 3 upcoming), while just the same number have nominees and in combination with the limited floor time, higher priorizsation of circuit judges and the mere fact, that none of them is as easy to confirm than the last three before August recess.

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