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Circuit Court Nominees In The Trump Administration: A Nationwide Round-Up
Federal Judges, Politics
Circuit Court Nominees In The Trump Administration: A Nationwide Round-Up
Names, names, and more names, for federal judgeships around the country.
By David Lat
May 1, 2017 at 6:58 PM
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On Friday, I wrote about possible nominees to the Ninth Circuit (for which I have special affection, as a former Ninth Circuit clerk and author of a novel set in that court). I also mentioned that I’d be writing a longer story talking about potential nominees to all the other circuit courts. This is that story.
You’ll note that I didn’t waste much time in putting together his piece. Why? As Politico reported last week, the Trump administration plans to announce at least 10 judicial nominees in the next two weeks — meaning any day now.
My sources confirmed this intelligence and added some additional information. Taking a page from President George W. Bush’s playbook, later this month President Trump will announce multiple judicial nominees in one big press conference in Washington, D.C. (just as President Bush announced eleven nominees as a group, on May 9, 2001, in what Professor Carl Tobias described as “a White House ceremony which chief executives traditionally reserve for United States Supreme Court designees”). The messaging to accompany President Trump’s announcement: this is the next generation of great federal judges, the bench (pun intended) from which future Supreme Court justices will be recruited.
Let’s now turn to the specific circuits and name some names. In subsequent stories, we will discuss possible nominees for district-court seats and for U.S. Attorney positions. (The White House has already started moving on those jobs as well; see, e.g., Zoe Tillman’s BuzzFeed piece on interviewees for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.)
Circuit Court Nominees In The Trump Administration: A Nationwide Round-Up
Names, names, and more names, for federal judgeships around the country.
By David Lat
May 1, 2017 at 6:58 PM
....
On Friday, I wrote about possible nominees to the Ninth Circuit (for which I have special affection, as a former Ninth Circuit clerk and author of a novel set in that court). I also mentioned that I’d be writing a longer story talking about potential nominees to all the other circuit courts. This is that story.
You’ll note that I didn’t waste much time in putting together his piece. Why? As Politico reported last week, the Trump administration plans to announce at least 10 judicial nominees in the next two weeks — meaning any day now.
My sources confirmed this intelligence and added some additional information. Taking a page from President George W. Bush’s playbook, later this month President Trump will announce multiple judicial nominees in one big press conference in Washington, D.C. (just as President Bush announced eleven nominees as a group, on May 9, 2001, in what Professor Carl Tobias described as “a White House ceremony which chief executives traditionally reserve for United States Supreme Court designees”). The messaging to accompany President Trump’s announcement: this is the next generation of great federal judges, the bench (pun intended) from which future Supreme Court justices will be recruited.
Let’s now turn to the specific circuits and name some names. In subsequent stories, we will discuss possible nominees for district-court seats and for U.S. Attorney positions. (The White House has already started moving on those jobs as well; see, e.g., Zoe Tillman’s BuzzFeed piece on interviewees for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.)
