Restoring credibility? Trump’s slate of 11 judicial nominees could shake up courts
By Steve Kurtz Published June 08, 2017
Fox News
White House releases names of federal court nominees Whether former President Barack Obama transformed the country is an open question – but there’s no question he transformed the federal courts.
For example, in the federal appeals courts, one level below the Supreme Court, Obama named about one-third of all judges presently sitting.
Now it’s Donald Trump’s turn to transform the courts. With more than 120 openings on the federal bench, the White House has just announced a slate of 11 new judicial nominees.
Court observers say the nominees will be a positive addition to the courts.
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Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director of the Judicial Crisis Network, called it a “fantastic list” with nominees who “have shown commitment to principled and even-handed application of the law throughout their careers.”
Jonathan Adler, professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Ohio, called the choices “superlative judicial nominees with sterling credentials and impressive intellects.”
The list includes Stephanos Bibas for the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Allison H. Eid for the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals and Ralph R. Erickson for the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals.
Bibas is a professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania who clerked for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Eid, who clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas and was professor of law at the University of Colorado, is at present a justice on the Colorado Supreme Court. Erickson is a district court judge in North Dakota who presided over the state’s first federal death penalty case.
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