Nearly One In Nine Federal Judgeships Are Now Vacant

These vacancies amount to another heavy tax burden on the Poor/Middle/Working Classes.  Remember, when our courts are so over burdened, delays cost the taxpayers as well as the cost in human suffering.  But what about the Ruling Class?  Is their justice delayed? 

Where did we ever get the silly notion that the majority rules?  If that were true then the Super Rich would be the ones being denied services, losing their jobs, being evicted from their homes, having their libraries shut down, being sent to over crowded jails for smoking pot, crowded into dirty under staffed nursing homes to finish out their miserable lives and all the other indignities the majority now puts up with. 

 

Carl

 

 

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Nearly One In Nine Federal Judgeships Are Now Vacant

By Ian Millhiser

December 25th, 2010 at 9:28 pm

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/25/judgeships-vacant/


The Senate adjourned earlier this week, even though it confirmed only half
of the 38 judicial nominees awaiting a vote on the Senate floor.  And the
overwhelming majority of the blocked nominees cleared the Senate Judiciary
Committee without a single negative vote.



This failure to confirm even many of the most uncontroversial nominees is
the culmination of a concerted GOP strategy to delay as many of President
Obama's judges as much as possible , and it leaves Obama with fewer judges
confirmed than any recent president:



judicial_noms



The Senate's failure to even hold a vote on these nominees leaves the
federal judiciary with record vacancies--approximately one in nine federal
judgeships are now vacant.



Notably, three of these vacancies are on just one court.  Of the four active
judgeships on the United States District Court for the Central District of
Illinois,



three are presently vacant , leaving the court's chief judge as its only
active member.  Two of President Obama's nominees to this court, James
Shadid and Sue Myerscough, were unanimously approved by the Judiciary
Committee for this excessively overburdened court.  Yet none of Obama's
nominees to the Central District of Illinois received a vote in the 111th
Congress.



This failure to confirm anyone to this Illinois court may be the most
reckless legacy of the right's obstruction of Obama's judges, but it isn't
even the most absurd.  One of the president's blocked nominees, District of
Oregon nominee Marco Hernandez, was previously nominated for the exact same
job by President George W.  Bush .  Somehow, now that he's an Obama nominee,
the GOP has suddenly decided to throw up roadblocks before his confirmation.