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Perspective

Jul. 28, 2010

Breaking the Logjam Of Nominations to the Federal Trial Courts

There is no reason to delay in confirmation of well-qualified, noncontroversial judicial nominees, by Carl Tobias of University of Richmond Law School.

By Carl Tobias

On each of three days in June, the U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed three U.S. District Court Judges, including Josephine Staton Tucker and Lucy Koh to be U.S. District judges for the Central District of California and the Northern District of California respectively. The upper chamber confirmed without dissent nearly all of the nine nominees rather soon after President Barack Obama had carefully selected them. It was not surprising that t...

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