Judges often bristle at the suggestion that their offices are political, or that their rulings reflect the will of the president who selected them. But legal experts saw Biden’s appointments to the 9th Circuit
Cannon sided with Trump’s lawyers in ruling that the special counsel who filed the charges against Trump was illegally appointed by the Justice Department. Trump’s own administration have been critical of federal judges who have ruled against the White House in lawsuits brought over his sweeping...
Right now, our analysis of data from the Federal Judicial Center shows that 11 percent of federal judges are Biden appointees and 26 percent are Trump appointees. (The rest were appointed by past presidents.) If Biden successfully fills all of the current vacancies, however, he will have appoi...
working night and day to fill every federal judicial vacancy for district and appeals courts. Senate Democrats have confirmed aslew of Biden-nominated judges, and they are confirming more. But the pace is still too slow, and the
information about U.S. intelligence gathering activities to The Guardian and other press outlets. Now that a little light has been shed on the agency, there are quite a few folks who'd like to know just what it is this federal surveillance outfit is looking at, particularly closer to home...
Democratic leadership in the Senate has turned its focus to confirming ahistoric slate of federal judges. While Democratshave fallen slightly behindthe breakneck pace of judicial confirmations under former President Donald Trump, in...
The two-plus-months of often-ignored procedural steps are laid out by the U.S. Constitution and federal law and they're far more complicated than simply handing over the keys to the White House to the winner. Below are the key dates in the process, and what happens each step o...
If a judge was reappointed by a president, we counted them only once. Source: federal judicial centerThis trend is particularly pronounced for judges who have been appointed to serve on the courts of appeals in the past year. Biden hasn’t had very many appellate vacancies to fill, but the...
there'd be no chance of an incarceration sentence," said Coffee. Trump turns 78 on June 14. "They can use probation, they can use fines. But there may be a view of many judges that you have to show that no one's above the law, and even the future president should have a taste ...
Although Congress has impeached and removedeight federal officials—all federal judges—no president has ever been found guilty during a Senate impeachment trial.Andrew Johnsoncame awfully close, though; he barely escaped a guilty verdict by one vote. ...