Red State district court vacancies are starting to pile up

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John P. Collins
@prof_jpc

Middle District of Florida Judge Charlene Edwards-Honeywell, appointed by President Obama, will assume senior status in December 2023. The MD Fla now has three current and future vacancies. Red State district court vacancies are starting to pile up…

John P. Collins
@prof_jpc
The post-midterm retirement announcements are slowly trickling in

Tyler Bridges
@tegbridges

NEWS: U.S. District Court Judge Carl Barbier wrote the White House today that he plans to retire from regular active service for the Eastern District of Louisiana as of January 1. Barbier will continue as a senior judge. He was appointed by Clinton in 1998 #lalege #lagov

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[essaynnc]

1. Can someone explain?

Why red states? I guess they aren't voted on by the senate? LMK please.

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2. Blue slip courtesies

Home state senators can withhold support for a nominee within their state.

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100217369577

[Bettie]

4. Did Republicans

adhere to this rule? Because I seem to recall that they didn't.

[SoCalDavidS]

7. repubs Usually Only Adhere To Rules When They Benefit nt

[onenote]

10. Yes, the blue slip rule was honored with respect to district court judges during the Trump years

During the Trump administration, the republicans abandoned the blue slip rule and confirmed appeals court judges over the objections of Democratic senators; Democrats have returned the favor by ignoring blue slips from republicans with respect to appeals court judges.

But blue slip objections continued to be honored by the republicans for district court judges during the Trump years and are being honored today by the Democrats.

[dsc]

3. We are honoring the Blue Slip system

at the district court level. So if a state has 2 GOP Senators they are simply refusing to approve any appointee.

[drray23]

5. Its not a requirement. Just courtesy.

As I recall, the GOP ignored blue slips when it was to their advantage. We should do the same.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Here's the question: What would Moscow Mitch do if he were Majority Leader?

If GOP held Senate and White House, there would be nominations and confirmations without regard to quaint notions of courtesy.

[drray23]

11. which he did before when they were in the majority.nt.

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12. If my recollection serves me correctly, they did it for the Circuit courts, but kept blue slips for

district court nominees.

Personally, I don't care that they left it intact for district courts. Since they got rid of it for circuit courts, we get rid of it for district courts.

[Initech]

6. Come on, Biden, stack the courts now!

I would like to tell the Christian right where they can shove their "activist judges".

[UTUSN]

8. K&R