AP has a piece looking at whose on the President Biden Supreme Court list…
Two of the three judges now on Biden’s short list were evaluated last year by White House aides, although that early vetting did not include deep dives into their opinions or backgrounds, formal interviews or FBI background checks.
They are Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, a recent appointee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, where she has served since June 2021, and Leondra Kruger, 45, a California Supreme Court judge since 2015 who would be the first person in more than 40 years to move from a state court to the Supreme Court if she were to be confirmed.
Jackson is seen as the top candidate. And she, too, has a proven record of bipartisan support: She was confirmed to the appeals court on a 53-44 vote. Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina voted for her.
But J. Michelle Childs has rapidly become a serious third candidate after House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, D.-S.C., publicly announced his support for her, as did the state’s Republican senators, Graham and Tim Scott. Graham has made clear Childs is his preferred choice.
The 55-year-old is a federal judge in South Carolina who has been nominated to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. That nomination is on hold while she’s under consideration for the high court….
image of judge J. Michelle Childs….Law.Com
Child’s is the obvious choice.Theres no doubt of her confirmation .The knock on her is she’s not from a prestigious law school ,which in my view has nothing to do with anything and some liberals don’t think she’s liberal enough.
In my view she would make an excellent justice, will undoubtedly get a few Republican votes(Graham and Scott are pretty much a lock) and will add to the collegiality of the Court.
Agreed….
Lindsey says she can get 10 Republican Senate votes
Again
Progressives would come up short
Republicans must really love her if she were to get ten GOP votes. No wonder James supports her. I am virtually certain that there hasn’t been a judge in the psst year that has received five or more GOP votes. A few have received 3 votes(usually Murkowski, collins and Graham) and I think I saw where Mike Rounds voted for st least one judge.
The confirmation of Sonia Sotomayor (a Latina from New York) was supported by nine out of forty Republicans + Joe Lieberman (Indep.-Conn.) [as well, as of course, by Bernie Sanders, Indep.-VT)
“The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court on August 6, 2009, by a vote of 68–31. The Senate was composed of 58 Democrats, 2 independents who caucused with the Democrats, and 40 Republicans at the time. All Democrats present (including the Senate’s two Independents), along with nine Republicans, voted for her. Democrat Ted Kennedy, a supporter of the nomination, was absent due to ongoing health issues.”
Lamar Alexander R Tennessee Yea
Kit Bond R Missouri Yea
Susan Collins R Maine Yea
Lindsey Graham R South Carolina Yea
Judd Gregg R New Hampshire Yea
Richard Lugar R Indiana Yea
Mel Martinez R Florida Yea
Olympia Snowe R Maine Yea
George Voinovich R Ohio Yea
Joe Lieberman I Connecticut Yea
Her nomination had passed the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 13-6.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sotomayor_Supreme_Court_nomination#Senate_votes
The Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court on August 5, 2010, by a vote of 63–37. All Democrats, except for Ben Nelson [but including former Republican Arlen Specter], voted for her, as did Independents Joe Lieberman and Bernie Sanders, and five Republicans: Susan Collins, Lindsey Graham, Judd Gregg, Richard Lugar and Olympia Snowe.
36 out of 41 Republicans voted Nay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Kagan_Supreme_Court_nomination#Full_Senate
It appears that several of Joe Biden’s judicial nominations that had reached the Senate’s floor were confirmed by voice vote or unanimous consent, while several were opposed by a couple of dozen Senators and supported by 40-50.
So it’s not exactly true that no Biden judicial nominations received only a handful of Republican yeas.
On the other hand, there’s a significant number who were opposed by three or four dozen Senators and supported by fewer than 60.
For the fate of 100 judicial nominations in this Congress, see:
https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22nominations%22%2C%22search%22%3A%22Judiciary%22%7D&pageSize=100&page=1
I’d be surprised if any Biden nominee got 10 Republican Senators to vote to confirm. Probably 5 tops–Murkowski, Romney, Collins, Sasse, and maybe Graham or Cassidy.
Scott might vote for Childs if she is the nominee.
He issued a very favorable statement about here in S.C. over the weekend.
Then again,who knows?If she is nominated ,the Republican hierarchy in S.C. ,which is totally dominated by extremists ,many of the Marjorie Taylor Greene variety ,might get to him.
I think Graham will vote for her no matter what.Since he is regularly denounced by state party people ,he doesn’t seem to pay much attention to them.
I think Scott had kind words for Child’s, so I assume he would vote for her.
I am very, very disappointed to say this, but I think DSD is lying with his statement that says that there were judicial nominees in the past year that got approved by voice vote.
I am disappointed that DSD cessentally called me a liar without adequately researching the topic.
Click on the link in the confirmation vote box in the link below to see to see which senators voted for, against, or did not vote for each and every nominee appointed by Buden.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_judges_appointed_by_Joe_Biden
If DSD can give me one judicial nominee that he claims was approved by voice vote, I will research the link I provide you above and tell you which Republicans voted yes, which voted no, and which did not vote,
My statement was not entirely correct.
There did appear to be only two voice votes – both for each of the two nominees on the federal claims court.
There were a small handful of other nominees that did have more than a few GOP nominees, but for a very strong majority almost every GOP senator voted no or did not vote.
I apologize for my unfair comments to DSD.
Zreebs; I hope we can disagree without thinking that one of us is calling the other a liar.
That thought certainly never entered my mind.
I certainly don’t take it that way if somebody has a different opinion, data or conclusion from my own (unless some snarky or contemptuous comment is attached; I hope you didn’t take me to have made one about you).
No one’s truth (individually or collectively) is perfect; the only way to improve it is to give examples and debate their implications.
And I’m hardly rock-solid in my interpretation of the data that I could find. For one thing, I hastily (but honestly) mistook your remark at first as referring in general for Republican votes for Democratic Presidents’ nominations (e.g. JJ. Sotomayor & Kagan) rather than to the present Congress’s record with Biden’s nominations.
When I refined my search for data to test your assertion, I did find some strong votes for confirmation.
But on balance, without making absolute statements, I think you’re probably right: most votes have at least 45 Republicans voting no.
Here are two examples where they didn’t
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Zahid N. Quraishi, of New Jersey, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of New Jersey )
Vote Number: 230
Vote Date: June 10, 2021, 01:45 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed
Nomination Number: PN394
Nomination Description: Zahid N. Quraishi, of New Jersey, to be United States District Judge for the District of New Jersey
Vote Counts:
YEAs
81
NAYs
16
Not Voting
3
Republicans voting Yea (alphabetical by state abbrev.)
Murkowski R-AK)
Boozman R-AR)
Cotton R-AR)
Rubio R-FL)
Ernst R-IA)
Grassley R-IA)
Crapo R-ID)
Risch R-ID)
Young R-IN)
McConnell R-KY)
Kennedy R-LA)
Collins R-ME)
Hyde-Smith R-MS)
Wicker R-MS)
Daines R-MT)
Tillis R-NC)
Cramer R-ND)
Hoeven R-ND)
Fischer R-NE)
Portman R-OH)
Toomey R-PA)
Graham R-SC)
Scott R-SC)
Rounds R-SD)
Thune R-SD)
Hagerty R-TN)
Cornyn R-TX)
Lee R-UT)
Romney R-UT)
Capito R-WV)
Barrasso R-WY)
Lummis R-WY)
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00230.htm
Vote Summary
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Florence Y. Pan, of the District of Columbia, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia )
Vote Number: 375
Vote Date: September 23, 2021, 10:03 AM
Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed
Nomination Number: PN642
Nomination Description: Florence Y. Pan, of the District of Columbia, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia
Vote Counts:
YEAs
68
NAYs
30
Not Voting
2
Republican Yeas:
Murkowski R-AK)
Cotton R-AR)
Ernst R-IA)
Grassley R-IA)
Young R-IN)
McConnell R-KY)
Collins R-ME)
Hyde-Smith R-MS)
Burr R-NC)
Tillis R-NC)
Fischer R-NE)
Portman R-OH)
Toomey R-PA)
Graham R-SC)
Scott R-SC)
Cornyn R-TX)
Lee R-UT)
Romney R-UT)
Capito R-WV)
¶ And here are two examples of Senate confirmations by voice vote (of course, it’s possible that the Presiding Officer heard the Yeas outshout a nearly-unanimous GOP chorus of Noes)
20. PN1233 — 117th Congress (2021-2022) — Armando O. Bonilla — The Judiciary
Armando O. Bonilla, of the District of Columbia, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years, vice Edward J. Damich, term expired.
Date Received from President: 10/05/2021
Committee: Judiciary
Latest Action: 12/18/2021 – Confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote.
21. PN805 — 117th Congress (2021-2022) — Carolyn N. Lerner — The Judiciary
Carolyn N. Lerner, of Maryland, to be a Judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims for a term of fifteen years, vice Margaret Mary Sweeney, term expired.
Date Received from President: 07/13/2021
Committee: Judiciary
Latest Action: 12/18/2021 – Confirmed by the Senate by Voice Vote.
https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22nominations%22%2C%22search%22%3A%22Judiciary%22%7D
But checking the Wikipedia article that Zreebs cited, there seems to be only one nomination to a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (covering more than one state) where the Yeas exceeded 60. And (as Jack could elaborate better) that particular court generally deals with appeals from Administrative Law Judges, such as immigration judges or the tax court, rather than from ordinary U.S. District Courts.
The other instances of confirmation votes over 60, were lower down the table for judges on a U.S. District Court. (confined to a single state or possession).
Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation: Leonard Philip Stark, of Delaware, to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit )
Vote Number: 49
Vote Date: February 9, 2022, 07:04 PM
Required For Majority: 1/2
Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed
Nomination Number: PN1508
Nomination Description: Leonard Philip Stark, of Delaware, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Federal Circuit
Vote Counts:
YEAs
61
NAYs
35
Not Voting
4
GOP Yeas
Murkowski R-AK)
Grassley R-IA)
Kennedy R-LA)
Collins R-ME)
Burr R-NC)
Tillis R-NC)
Portman R-OH)
Toomey R-PA)
Graham R-SC)
Cornyn R-TX)
Romney R-UT)
Capito R-WV)
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00049.htm
Dave, Again, I apologize for my unfair comment. I hope you accept it.
While this is a poor excuse, I am under enormous stress lately. My company is trying to force me to return to work or they will fire me. I tire exceedingly easily, and I now sometimes get confused easier than I should. Firing me would cause me to lose my health insurance and life insurance, and right now, that is a terrible option.
Glad to see you and DSD worked things out herr….
Hope you can work something out with your job Z…..
If not?
You can go on to find something better….
Be well
The BEST to ya
And stay STRONG
And lastly, I am worried that I am beginning to lose my ability to think and write critically. I will try do my best. The people closest to me say that I have not declined in these areas, but I have my doubts.
Zreebs, I hope your health and employment situation improve as smoothly and swiftly as possible.
As so many of us have said about the Saving Remnant on this blog, we can’t afford to lose you.
Hang in there my friend.
I think I speak for all here…Your comments are always welcomed!
Yes Z’s comment’s ARE welcomed
He may be a pain in the ass sometimes
But we ALL share that here, eh?
Keep at it Z❗️😉
James, Thank you. While I can’t speak for he others, I accept your apology and acknowledgement that ya’ll could be a pain in the ass sometimes.
On an unrelated subject, you haven’t said whether you have had discussions with CG on improving your blogs. This might not be obvious to you, but CG can be a proud person and it might be difficult for him to approach you and admit that he needs your help in creating a more successful blog. So you might need to approach him first. He will appreciate your initiative.
I haven’t had any discussion’s’ with CG / at all……
And I hope u not implying that is how i deal with him cause it isn’t……
James, I am not implying anything. only you and CG know the details of your conversations/negotiations. Unless either he or you tells us what was promised in your secret communications, the rest of us wouldn’t know.
On that note,one of the conversations that CG revealed was that James had indeed been vaccinated and that his refusal to acknowledge the same was nothing more than him enjoying the attention that his non acknowledgement stirred up.
Interestingly, James never denied the veracity of CGs revelation.
I wonder if the clandestine meetings between CG and James are ultimstelydesigned to go after their perceived enemies -perhaps Keith and me?
You ain’t funny Z……
Thank you Dave.
I am humiliated by my careless mistake above.
I will strive to do better in the future, and for several reasons, that probably means and should mean fewer posts by me.
I would hope not Zreebs. You are to valuable not to post.
And let me know if I can be of additional assistance.
That would be “too” valuable.