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Posted on February 3, 2011 Leave a Comment
The Senate Judiciary Committee has been back in judicial nominations action this week. Yesterday’s nominations hearing was followed today by a business meeting in which 11 nominees were voted out (full list at the end of this post). The committee votes come during the same week that White House Counsel Bob Bauer called for the […]
Posted on January 21, 2011 Leave a Comment
Protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court today to lament the Citizens United v. FEC ruling, issued a year ago today.
Posted on December 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
So, the Senate has absconded for the holidays having confirmed 19 of the 38 judges awaiting a final vote. Of those who made the cut, five were circuit court nominees. Those who didn’t make it include Goodwin Liu, the Berkeley law professor who Republicans love to hate, although the word is that the White House […]
Posted on December 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
The Senate confirmed another six judicial nominees this weekend, including two appeals court nominees. That means 12 judicial nominees have been confirmed since Thursday, leaving 26 awaiting a vote. The six confirmed this weekend are: Albert Diaz to be U.S. circuit judge for the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Raymond Lohier to U.S. circuit […]
Posted on December 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved another four judicial nominees yesterday, meaning there are now 38 awaiting a floor vote in the Senate. Democrats and Republicans continue to talk about a possible deal that would allow at least some of them to be confirmed before the end of the current lame duck session. The nominees approved […]
Posted on November 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
As part of his day job (subscription required), your blogger wrote yesterday about an interesting development in the long-running environmental litigation concerning Chevron Corp. In brief: Escalating the legal battle in the long-running dispute over pollution in Ecuador allegedly caused by Chevron Corp., the plaintiffs have secured the services of one of Washington, D.C.’s most […]
Posted on November 15, 2010 Leave a Comment
As Rep. Charlie Rangel’s ethics trial commenced today before the House ethics committee, it was his former legal team that received the most invective. Rangel asked for the hearing to be postponed on the grounds that he has no counsel. That has been the case since his attorneys at Zuckerman Spaeder withdrew their services, he […]
Posted on November 12, 2010 Leave a Comment
A Korean War veteran has passed away just weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court is due to hear his case. David L. Henderson died on Oct. 24. He was seeking to challenge whether the 120-day time limit for a veteran to seek review of a decision denying benefits unlawfully restricts the jurisdiction of the U.S. […]
Posted on October 19, 2010 Leave a Comment
Your blogger has changed jobs. He’s left the hallowed halls of the Supreme Court for a new legal beat with Greenwire, focusing on environmental and energy issues. He is still in Washington and will still make the occasional trip to SCOTUS, but he will also be spending some time in other courts, especially the D.C. Circuit. […]
Posted on October 4, 2010 Leave a Comment
Your blogger helped discard the Reuters copies of the SCOTUS petitions that piled up over the summer and were rejected by the court this morning, the court’s first day back in session. Before carting them to the clerk’s office, he took this photo to illustrate the amount of paperwork involved. These are just the paid […]
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