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Despite increasing his pace of U.S. District Court and U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals nominations, President Barack Obama failed to make as many of them as President George W. Bush did at the three-year mark of his administration, according to a new Brookings Institution research paper. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

PM opposes draft law on judicial appointmentsJerusalem PostNetanyahu says bill, which passed Knesset, against country's status quo; "Law like this won't pass gov't I head," PM says. A draft law mandating that a Knesset committee hold hearings approving appointments to the …and more » View full post on law – Google News

PM against Knesset hearings for judicial appointmentsJerusalem PostNetanyahu says bill, which passed Knesset, against country's status quo; "Law like this won't pass gov't I head," PM says. A draft law mandating that a Knesset committee hold hearings approving appointments to the …and more » View full post on law – Google News

Houston Chronicle (blog) Nonpartisan legal experts urge Senate to approve Obamas Texas judicial nomineesHouston Chronicle (blog)A group of nonpartisan legal leaders in Texas called Tuesday on the US Senate to expeditiously move to fill judicial vacancies with President Barack Obama's nominees for district and appellate courts. There are currently 94 vacancies in the federal …and [...]

Houston Chronicle Texas Legal Group Urges More Judicial AppointmentsTexas TribuneA nonpartisan group of Texas lawyers, law professors and other legal advocates today called on the US Senate to hurry up and fill judicial vacancies that are slowing down the justice system in Texas and nationwide. …Texans point to judicial slotsSan Antonio Expressall 4 news articles » [...]

Legal experts urge Senate to move on Obama judicial nomineesSan Antonio ExpressWASHINGTON — A group of non-partisan legal leaders in Texas called Tuesday on the US Senate to quickly fill judicial vacancies with President Barack Obama's nominees for district and appellate courts. Nationally, there are currently 94 …Respect For The Confirmation Process, Judge Roll's Seat [...]

Senate leaders have come to an agreement to consider 10 judicial nominees during the next several weeks, stepping up the rate at which senators have been considering judges in recent months. The nominees include candidates for the 4th Circuit and the high-profile Southern District of New York. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Ghana News Agency The Last Honest Judicial Hearing?Wall Street Journal (blog)The New York Review of Books has an illuminating interview [subscribers only] with the appeals-court judge and scholar Richard Posner, conducted by a Georgia State law professor. Posner discusses what he sees as inconsistencies in …Judicial Independence alone cannot secure the rule of Law- Chief [...]

The policy-making body of the federal judiciary has approved a new standard that instructs judges to limit sealing entire civil cases to only extraordinary circumstances and to first explore narrower alternatives like blacking out information or sealing particular documents. View full post on Law.com – Newswire

Judge Bernice Donald, who was confirmed to the 6th Circuit by a Senate vote of 96-2 on Tuesday, found out during her confirmation process how much trouble a transcript error can cause after a misattributed quote from a 2008 panel discussion made its way to the Senate Judiciary Committee. View full post on Law.com – [...]