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Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley on @hughhewitt today (hughhewitt.com/senate-judicia…): "Our goal is five district judges and at least one circuit judge and possibly two every other Wednesday between now and Christmas." See: buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/rep…
I'm hearing from a source w/ knowledge that the White House will be announcing another slate of judicial nominees soon (joining the nearly four dozen announced so far in 2018), could come as early as today. Also hearing the list may include several New York nominees. Stay tuned.
And there it is, the White House just announced Trump's 14th wave of judicial nominees. There is one appeals court nominee, Ryan Nelson for the 9th Circuit — Nelson had been nominated to be solicitor for the Dept. of Interior, but hadn't gotten a final vote yet
There are also nine district court nominees. First up, two nominees for SDNY (there are five vacancies):
- Lewis Liman, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Mary Kay Vyskocil, currently a US bankruptcy judge
There are four nominees for EDNY (note that Brown & Gujarati had been nominated under Obama):
- Gary Brown, a US magistrate judge
- Diane Gujarati, a federal prosecutor
- Eric Komitee, GC of Viking Global Investors
- Rachel Kovner, who works in the US solicitor general's office
Other district court nominees:
- WD-NY: John Sinatra Jr., partner at Hodgson Russ
- ND-AL: Corey Maze, attorney for the state of Alabama
- ED-PA: Joshua Wolson, partner at Dilworth Paxson
Note that all of the NY district court nominees announced today were on the list of proposed candidates that the White House sent to Schumer and Gillibrand last summer: buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/the… We don't have nominees yet for US attorney for SDNY and EDNY
In other judicial nominations news: Senate Judiciary Committee just voted 18-2 to approve Mark Bennett's nomination to Hawaii seat on the 9th Circuit. Cruz and Sasse voted *no*. Cruz said he found Bennett's record troubling, re: 2nd Amendment, same-sex marriage, other issues
Schumer spox says the NY judicial nominees announced today by the White House were the result of a "sound, collaborative and bipartisan process" — rare cooperation between Schumer and the Trump administration
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Hello on this mild morning from the DC Council, which is scheduled to vote today on the LOVE Act -- emergency legislation that would make it possible for couples to get a DC marriage license during the federal govt shutdown (background: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…)
At the DC Council this a.m. waiting for a vote on the LOVE Act, and listening to Councilmember Grosso intro a bill to legalize and regulate sales of marijuana. "This council should be unapologetic in pursuing what is best for our constituents." Background: dcist.com/story/19/01/07…
The LOVE Act is up — this emergency legislation will make it possible for couples to get a marriage license in DC during the govt shutdown. It's being introduced by Councilmember Brandon Todd at the request of DC Mayor Muriel Bowser
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NEW: The federal judiciary now expects to have enough money from other sources to keep the courts largely business-as-usual during the shutdown through Jan. 18 (previously it was Jan. 11) — this is the latest from the Administrative Office of the US Courts (HT @hsu_spencer)
In order to make the funds that the judiciary does have (absent a congressional appropriation) last as long as possible, "courts have been asked to delay or defer non-mission critical expenses, such as new hires, non-case related travel, and certain contracts"
DOJ, of course, is already affected by the shutdown, so most judges have been approving requests or issuing blanket orders to delay civil litigation involving the federal govt during the shutodwn (criminal cases still have to proceed as usual)
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Some fireworks in court this morning as a judge criticized the lawyer representing Concord Management & Consulting in the special counsel Russian troll farm case for his language and harsh words about Mueller's office in filings — "unprofessional, inappropriate, and ineffective"
The judge told attorney Eric Dubelier that his strategy was "ineffective" and that his approach to filings — including pop culture quotes (see: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5676…) and accusing Mueller's office basically of lawlessness — was "undermining your credibility in this courthouse"
"Knock it off," Judge Dabney Friedrich told Dubelier. This then led to a heated exchange where Dubelier said he needed to consult his client since the judge had accused of unprofessional conduct, and now there might be bias from the judge. There's no bias, the judge replied.
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