Following the successful confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, President Trump is expected to name new nominees to the federal bench on Monday, a White House official confirmed, in a move to fill almost 130 federal court vacancies.
Snyder was joined by almost three dozen professors at University of MI law school are urging Michigan's US senators to support Larsen for a seat on the appeals court.
Almost three dozen professors at University of MI law school are urging Michigan's US senators to support Joan Larsen for a seat on a federal appeals court.
Joan Larsen's nomination to a federal appeals court is being praised by her colleagues at the Michigan Supreme Court.
However, Stras is on a new list of Trump nominees. Its founding members included former Attorney General Edwin Meese and Solicitor General and Reagan Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.
Three of the five are former law clerks for either Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia or Justice Clarence Thomas, who for a quarter century were the two most conservative justices.
President Trump has a large number of judicial vacancies to fill, since Senate Republicans held up President Barack Obama's nominees.
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That's after President Donald Trump nominated Joan Larsen to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. David Stras of Minnesota will be nominated for the 8th Circuit. Scott Lawrence Palk, an assistant dean at the University of Oklahoma College of Law, will be a nominee to be a U.S. district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Kevin Newsom of Alabama will be nominated as a circuit judge on the 11th Circuit.
Larsen has been on the Supreme Court since fall 2015. So, circuit court nominees are highly important.
'With this first slate of lower court nominees, it seems that the President is intent on continuing to outsource the judicial selection process to hard right, special interest groups rather than consulting with Senators on a bipartisan basis, ' Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of NY said in a statement.
The Senate has confirmed just 26 of Trump's nominees.
Eight of the ten nominations were submitted to the Senate late Monday. Lodge announced his plans to retire in September 2014, but has kept working as a senior judge while the search for his successor was underway because Idaho is down to just one active federal USA district judge.
'The President should work with members of both parties to pick judges from within the judicial mainstream, who will interpret the law rather than make it'.
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