Senate Should Keep Pedal to the Metal on Judicial Nominees This Week
Thomas Jipping / March 11, 2019
uty director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday will hold its fourth judicial confirmation hearing of the 116th Congress, this one featuring two nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. This hopefully signals that the new chairman, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., will continue a robust pace for hearings on President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees.
As of March 11, 144 positions across the federal judiciary are vacant—35 percent higher than when Trump took office. We are in the longest period of triple-digit vacancies since the early 1990s.
Even worse, 60 percent of those vacancies have been designated “judicial emergencies†because they have been pending for an average of more than 800 days and have such a negative effect on judicial caseloads.
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