Perkins Coie’s Eric Miller Approved for 9th Circuit, Despite Blue Slip Flap

[Right_in_Virginia]

Perkins Coie’s Eric Miller Approved for 9th Circuit, Despite Blue Slip Flap
National Law Journal, Feb 26, 2019

Perkins Coie’ appellate chair Eric Miller won approval Tuesday to a Seattle-based seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Miller was approved by the U.S. Senate, 53-46, to fill a seat left by Judge Richard Tallman, a Clinton appointee who took senior status in March 2018. Miller is the first appeals court nominee to be confirmed without the “blue slip” consent of either of the two home state senators.

Miller’s confirmation marks another win for conservatives, who have aggressively pushed to confirm judges over Democratic complaints about processing picks. Under the Trump administration, 31 federal appeals court nominees have been confirmed.

It also continues the streak of former Justice Clarence Thomas clerks joining the federal bench under this administration. Miller worked in Thomas’ chambers from 2000-2001 and is now the fifth of the justice’s former clerks to be appointed to an appeals court by Trump. Other Thomas clerks—including D.C. Circuit nominee Neomi Rao and Fourth Circuit pick Allison Jones Rushing—are currently pending before the Senate.


More:  https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/02/26/perkins-coies-eric-miller-approved-for-9th-circuit-despite-blue-slip-flap/?slreturn=20190126193042

[Sanguine]

Time for payback.

[Cyber Liberty]

Feinswine and Horizontal Harris need to get honest and admit they don't want any Trump pick, any where or at any time.  The Blue Slips were just another monkey wrench in the toolbox.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Blue slip flap?

The Senate body approves nominations, not single Senators.

That is a fact, not a flap.