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Court blocks release of Mueller grand jury materials
A federal circuit court on Tuesday evening temporarily blocked the Department of Justice (DOJ) from having to release grand jury materials from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling in the 2016 election.A three-judge panel on the circuit court for the District of Columbia put a stay on a district court's earlier ruling that the DOJ had to hand over the documents, pending an appeal from the agency. All three judges were appointed to the court by former President Obama.
This is a comprehensive list of all Article III and Article IV United States federal judges appointed by Donald Trump during his presidency, as well as a partial list of Article I federal judicial appointments
More than half of all the judges had been appointed by Democrats when Reagan took office. Clinton refilled the federal bench with Democratic appointees. Many of George W. Bush’s judges The median age of Trump ’s circuit court judges is about 49 years old, younger than the judges put
President Trump has installed more federal circuit court judges than any president in the past four decades, topping former Presidents Reagan, Clinton and Obama.
© Patrick Semansky/AP President Donald Trump listens as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., speaks in the East Room of the White House during an event about Trump's judicial appointments, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2019, in Washington. With today’s Senate confirmation of William Nardini to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, one in four have been nominated by Trump and confirmed by the Senate, according to a count by the GOP majority.
How Chief Justice John Roberts would lead the Senate impeachment trial
The last time an American president was impeached, the chief justice of the Supreme Court — who presides over the Senate trial portion of an impeachment — drew attention mostly because of the four gold stripes on each sleeve of his black robe. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 74 years old at the time, largely kept a low profile in 1999 during the Senate impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. If and when President Trump is impeached by the House in the coming weeks, and the U.S. Senate begins an impeachment trial, current Chief Justice John Roberts will likely seek to attract less attention than his predecessor.
PREVIOUSLY: Trump , Keeping Campaign Promise, Picks More Conservative Judges . Trump has taken some criticism for not filling executive branch jobs more quickly. But the same cannot be said for appointments to the judiciary, as he is also surpassing Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton in
Trump has nominated 44 federal judges across courts, and has eight confirmations from the “When President Trump took office, he faced more judicial vacancies than four of his five predecessors There is no question in my mind that the individuals Obama picked for the federal courts were the
“This president and this Senate have prioritized confirming impressive men and women to these lifetime appointments,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
“At the close of business today, it so happens, one in every four judges on the federal courts of appeals will have been nominated by President Trump and confirmed by us here in the Senate,” he added.
86-2: Senate confirmed William Nardini, Assistant US Attorney for CT, to be US Court of Appeals judge for 2nd Circuit. 2 Democrats Gillibrand and Markey voted No. Nardini is 45th Circuit Court judge and 161st Article III judge overall confirmed by Senate during Trump presidency. pic.twitter.com/zjuT8MwxBy
— Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) November 7, 2019
During his 2016 election, Trump promised to put young conservative judges in key roles.
He has also named two young conservatives to the U.S. Supreme Court, helping to keep that court conservative for years longer.
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Hours before they were to attend an educational conference in Indianapolis, three judges went out drinking for a few hours and decided to walk to a strip joint. © WISHFinding that closed, they then stopped at a White Castle, where two men in an SUV shouted at the judicial trio, prompting one judge to hold up her middle finger at the two men, according to an Indiana Supreme Court disciplinary ruling. require(["medianetNativeAdOnArticle"], function (medianetNativeAdOnArticle)
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