Bush, more than 70 percent of federal judges seeking senior status were appointed by a Republican president, the study found. That increased to more than 80 percent during Trump’s administration, and in about the first two years of Biden’s administration, about 65 percent of judges taking ...
A handful of federal judges appointed by Democrats have put off retirement plans in the wake of President-elect Trump’s election victory, raising questions about the ethics of their decisions as judicial vacancies for the next administration dwindle. Legal experts said judges have discretion to ...
In June, an Obama appointee, Judge Sri Srinivasan, cast the deciding vote as a three-judge panel upheld the Federal Communication Commission’s so-called “net neutrality” regulation. Srinivasan joined a Clinton appointee in the majority. A judge appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan diss...
The less shocking aspect is that twelve of those decisions included at least one Trump-appointed judge. Seven of those 12 cases were 2-1 decisions with a Trump appointee in the majority; an eighth case was a 6-4 decision by the entire Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, with five Trump-ap...
PresidentJoe Bidenappointed two of the appeals court judges who will decide if Trump has immunity from prosecution for his efforts to reverse his 2020 loss to Biden in the presidential election. Judges Florence Pan and J. Michelle Childs were both nominated to the court by the current president...
With ACS’s new feature, roll call data is broken down by Senator, enabling users to look up how their Senators voted as a total and by judicial nominee. This data is in addition to ACS’s existingfeaturethat breaks down the roll call data on each of President Biden’s appointed ...
Only judges appointed by Hong Kong's pro-Beijing leader have been allowed to hear national security cases, in what the report said was an "opaque" process that had helped "diminish the public’s trust in the judiciary". "As participants in this system, judges appointed ...
In fact, the examination of nationwide injunctions published in the Harvard Law Review found that 92% were entered by judges appointed by Democratic presidents during the Trump administration. For the Biden administration, that portion grew to 100% imposed by judges named to the federal bench by ...
The Biden administration is sharpening its focus for the rest of this Congress, pressing Senate Democrats to beat the number of judges appointed by former President Donald Trump. On Wednesday, the Senate is expected to confirm the 200th judge of President Joe Biden’s tenure. That puts the par...
The 2 judges overseeing Hunter Biden’s trials have a lot in common. For starters, they were both appointed by Trump. Health Care The price of a conservative judiciary? Donald Trump is about to find out. Congress Dems gear up for final stretch on judges — worrying they won't catch Trum...