Obama Judicial Nominees Include Patricia Ann Millett, Cornelia Pillard, Robert Leon Wilkins
Source: Huffington Post
President Barack Obama nominated Patricia Ann Millett, Cornelia Pillard and Robert Leon Wilkins to the understaffed federal appeals court in Washington on Tuesday during an announcement in the White House Rose Garden.
The nominations set up an aggressive push against Senate Republicans who are trying to keep him from naming any more judges to the influential circuit.
According to the AP, it's the first time Obama has ever held an event to announce nominees to the federal bench other than the Supreme Court, an indication of the pressure the president is trying to put on the Senate to approve his picks.
The AP reports:
President Barack Obama is calling on Senate Republicans to allow prompt votes on three lawyers he's nominating to an understaffed federal appeals court in Washington.
In the White House Rose Garden on Tuesday, Obama criticized delays in votes on his prior judicial nominees as political and said that "for the good of the American people it has to stop." He says too much of the people's business is at stake.
Obama says his three nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit are highly qualified to serve.
The nominees are Cornelia Pillard, a Georgetown University law professor; Patricia Ann Millet, an appeals lawyer in Washington and Robert Leon Wilkins, a judge on the U.S. District Court in Washington.
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SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)When Republicans "pack" the courts, we get decisions like Citizens United. Its hardball time, call it the nuclear option, the democracy option, what ever. Its time Mitch Mcconnell get's politically slapped for his unprecedented tactics.
lark
(23,091 posts)the problem is Reid is totally spineliness, but the Repugs set the precedent when they said they would use the nuclear option unless all Bush appointees got an up or down vote. Maybe this time Reid will do the right thing?
Yeah right, and pigs fly around all the time too.
Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)If Harry Reid does not act, if Obama's nominee's do not get thru, the Democratic party as a whole can kiss the vast majority of their fundraising dollars goodbye!
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Firebrand Gary
(5,044 posts)I sincerely hope that President Obama renominates Caitlin Halligan to either the DC circuit or the Supreme Court!
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)and with it the nation by going nuclear and adopting an agenda of real change.
Don't think it's going to happen