Joe Biden's Judicial Nominees

[sguberman]

This felt like a good time to make this thread as we are starting to get some information about what Biden is going to do.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/biden-judge-nominees-diversity-historic
https://twitter.com/BidenJudges

[brucejoel99]

Get ready to hear all about Biden & Schumer "ramming through extreme judges."

[Lief 🗽]

Get ready to hear all about Biden & Schumer "ramming through extreme judges."

Let’s hope they do!

[Brittain33]

Get ready to hear all about Biden & Schumer "ramming through extreme judges."

Let’s hope they do!

Give lifetime appointments on the D.C. Circuit to MALIA and SASHA!

[Yoda]

Get ready to hear all about Biden & Schumer "ramming through extreme judges."

I want the closest thing we can find to RGB clones (ideologically of course) for every open seat. Let the republican tears flow.

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

Get ready to hear all about Biden & Schumer "ramming through extreme judges."

Take the Trump route and use the LSAT to judgeship pipeline.

[Sestak]

Per Politico, 11 nominees being named tomorrow.

[Lief 🗽]

Biden already moving faster than Obama or Trump. And releasing a slate of 11 at once is a great "shock and awe" move.

President Joe Biden plans to tap 11 nominees for the federal bench, including three Black women, sources said. At least two of those women will be named to the appeals courts, according to allies of his administration briefed on the selections.

Biden’s expected announcement of 11 picks comes amid a growing belief among Democrats that former President Barack Obama was too sluggish in addressing the courts. Obama announced his first judicial pick on March 17, 2009, followed by two additional picks on April 2 of that year.

Trump faced a comparatively unusual situation as he came into office: a vacant Supreme Court seat, held open by Senate Republicans who refused to act on Obama’s nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to replace the late Justice Antonin Scalia.

Trump tapped Judge Neil Gorsuch for that slot on Feb. 1, 2017. Trump’s first pick for a lower court came for an appeals court on March 21.

[brucejoel99]

Per Politico, 11 nominees being named tomorrow.

And Ketanji Brown Jackson will be among them:

https://twitter.com/MikeScarcella/status/1376752668237041664
Can't wait for the next SCOTUS vacancy.

[brucejoel99]

Biden already moving faster than Obama or Trump. And releasing a slate of 11 at once is a great "shock and awe" move.

Naming 11 lower-court picks at once also mirrors W.'s 1st judicial announcement, but that didn't even occur 'til May 2001.

[Sestak]

Per Politico, 11 nominees being named tomorrow.

And Ketanji Brown Jackson will be among them:

https://twitter.com/MikeScarcella/status/1376752668237041664
Can't wait for the next SCOTUS vacancy.

The Politico report indicates that there are two other black women being nominated - and, notably, one of them is also being named to an appeals court.


EDIT: Apparently per WaPo (damn paywall) the other is Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to the 7th Circuit and also Tiffany Cunningham to the Federal Circuit.

Don't know much about either but the former is at least in theory now an alternative SCOTUS pick?

[brucejoel99]

Per Politico, 11 nominees being named tomorrow.

And Ketanji Brown Jackson will be among them:

https://twitter.com/MikeScarcella/status/1376752668237041664

Can't wait for the next SCOTUS vacancy.

The Politico report indicates that there are two other black women being nominated - and, notably, one of them is also being named to an appeals court.

There is a pending vacancy for Graber's seat on the 9th circuit to which Kruger could be appointed (though it would move a seat from OR to CA), but I'm not sure if she intends to take senior status upon appointment of her successor or  just at some future date.

Alternatively could be an appointment for the 2nd, 4th, or 7th (or perhaps the 10th or Fed.), which would elevate someone else to be the main alternative to Jackson for a SCOTUS seat. It won't be the sole Puerto Rican 1st Cir. seat, naturally.

The WaPo report in the linked tweet confirmed that the other 2 Black female nominees are public defender-turned-litigator Candace Jackson-Akiwumi for the 7th Circuit & Federal Circuit law clerk-turned-intellectual property attorney Tiffany Cunningham for the Fed. Circuit.

As for the Graber vacancy, it's indeed senior status upon the confirmation of her successor.

[brucejoel99]

Per Politico, 11 nominees being named tomorrow.

And Ketanji Brown Jackson will be among them:

https://twitter.com/MikeScarcella/status/1376752668237041664

Can't wait for the next SCOTUS vacancy.

The Politico report indicates that there are two other black women being nominated - and, notably, one of them is also being named to an appeals court.

EDIT: Apparently per WaPo (damn paywall) the other is Candace Jackson-Akiwumi to the 7th Circuit and also Tiffany Cunningham to the Federal Circuit.

Don't know much about either but the former is at least in theory now an alternative SCOTUS pick?

Yeah, she's only 41, & the only other circuit court judges who are Black women are 81 & 69 (not including the impending service of KBJ, who's 50 & will obviously be on the shortlist as she's already been on it before), so she'll presumably make the shortlist too if only because she'll be one of the 2 Black female federal appellate judges under the age of 55, but I don't think she'd be favored to be the final SCOTUS pick over the likes of KBJ & Kruger.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Get ready to hear all about Biden & Schumer "ramming through extreme judges."

I want the closest thing we can find to RGB clones (ideologically of course) for every open seat. Let the republican tears flow.

Why?  Ginsberg was Center-left at best (I’d argue she was basically a moderate on such a right-wing judicial activist Court that it made her look liberal by comparison), had a tendency toward legislating from the bench, had something of a low key corporatist streak on certain issues, and bares a significant share of the blame for Amy Coney Barrett sitting on the Court.  Ginsberg’s great accomplishments were largely from before she became a judge.

We can - and should - do so much better than a bunch of Ginsberg clones. 

[sguberman]

https://mobile.twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1376872417814052872
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/us/politics/biden-names-diverse-nominees-for-the-federal-bench.html#click=https://t.co/RBxMfH3Gju

[Epaminondas]

Is there a current breakdown of the share of all appellate court judges named by GOP vs Dem presidents?

[brucejoel99]

Is there a current breakdown of the share of all appellate court judges named by GOP vs Dem presidents?

Ballotpedia keeps a running tally.

[LabourJersey]

Get ready to hear all about Biden & Schumer "ramming through extreme judges."

I want the closest thing we can find to RGB clones (ideologically of course) for every open seat. Let the republican tears flow.

Why?  Ginsberg was Center-left at best (I’d argue she was basically a moderate on such a right-wing judicial activist Court that it made her look liberal by comparison), had a tendency toward legislating from the bench, had something of a low key corporatist streak on certain issues, and bares a significant share of the blame for Amy Coney Barrett sitting on the Court.  Ginsberg’s great accomplishments were largely from before she became a judge.

We can - and should - do so much better than a bunch of Ginsberg clones. 

In this day and age which judges don't have a tendency to legislature from the bench?

The way the Supreme Court operates now, you can practically consider it a super-legislature.

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

Get ready to hear all about Biden & Schumer "ramming through extreme judges."

I want the closest thing we can find to RGB clones (ideologically of course) for every open seat. Let the republican tears flow.

Why?  Ginsberg was Center-left at best (I’d argue she was basically a moderate on such a right-wing judicial activist Court that it made her look liberal by comparison), had a tendency toward legislating from the bench, had something of a low key corporatist streak on certain issues, and bares a significant share of the blame for Amy Coney Barrett sitting on the Court.  Ginsberg’s great accomplishments were largely from before she became a judge.

We can - and should - do so much better than a bunch of Ginsberg clones. 

In this day and age which judges don't have a tendency to legislature from the bench?

The way the Supreme Court operates now, you can practically consider it a super-legislature.

No judge should aspire to legislate from the bench.  The fact that some do is a serious problem.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Wake me up when he passes the 200+ that Trump appointed, not counting 3 SCOTUS justices.

[LabourJersey]

Get ready to hear all about Biden & Schumer "ramming through extreme judges."

I want the closest thing we can find to RGB clones (ideologically of course) for every open seat. Let the republican tears flow.

Why?  Ginsberg was Center-left at best (I’d argue she was basically a moderate on such a right-wing judicial activist Court that it made her look liberal by comparison), had a tendency toward legislating from the bench, had something of a low key corporatist streak on certain issues, and bares a significant share of the blame for Amy Coney Barrett sitting on the Court.  Ginsberg’s great accomplishments were largely from before she became a judge.

We can - and should - do so much better than a bunch of Ginsberg clones. 

In this day and age which judges don't have a tendency to legislature from the bench?

The way the Supreme Court operates now, you can practically consider it a super-legislature.

No judge should aspire to legislate from the bench.  The fact that some do is a serious problem.

Perhaps, but when you have so many policies get litigated there isn't really an escape from that. Judicial review interjects the courts into legislation.

[brucejoel99]

Wake me up when he passes the 200+ that Trump appointed, not counting 3 SCOTUS justices.

Would've only been 129 had the 114th Senate done its job of advising & consenting to the 105 nominees Obama named.

[Beet]

Something to keep in mind: Court of Appeals Judges’ Median Age at Appointment as of late January, Fourth Year

Trump 48
Obama 57
Bush 51
Clinton 50
Bush 51
Reagan 52
Carter 55
Nixon 55
JFK-LBJ 54

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/01/28/judicial-appointments-in-trumps-first-three-years-myths-and-realities/

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

Something to keep in mind: Court of Appeals Judges’ Median Age at Appointment as of late January, Fourth Year

Trump 48
Obama 57
Bush 51
Clinton 50
Bush 51
Reagan 52
Carter 55
Nixon 55
JFK-LBJ 54

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/01/28/judicial-appointments-in-trumps-first-three-years-myths-and-realities/

How young are these? All I know is KBJ is 50.

[brucejoel99]

Something to keep in mind: Court of Appeals Judges’ Median Age at Appointment as of late January, Fourth Year

Trump 48
Obama 57
Bush 51
Clinton 50
Bush 51
Reagan 52
Carter 55
Nixon 55
JFK-LBJ 54

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/01/28/judicial-appointments-in-trumps-first-three-years-myths-and-realities/

How young are these? All I know is KBJ is 50.

The median age of the 3 nominated appeals court appointees is Cunningham's 44, with Jackson-Akiwumi being 41.