Reid to seek cloture vote on 2 stalled Obama judicial nominees

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The U.S. Senate could vote as soon as next week to confirm four stalled nominees for legal positions, including the head of the Justice Department's Office of Legal Policy and two vacancies on federal appellate courts.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moved Thursday to cut off debate on the four legal nominees and on a fifth nominee, Lael Brainard, for a top Treasury Department position. The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday at 5:30 p.m. on whether to bring Brainard’s nomination to an actual confirmation vote. Similar votes on the other four could then follow throughout the week...

The two appellate court nominees in the group are Denny Chin for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and Thomas Vanaskie for the 3rd Circuit. Both are federal district judges now, Chin in the Southern District of New York and Vanaskie in the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Neither has faced heated opposition.
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2010/04/senate-heads-toward-votes-on-4-legal-nominees.html




U.S. District Judge Denny Chin of the Southern District of New York
Nominee for United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
55yo

"He will fill the spot on that court left vacant by now-Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor." ~The Hill
"Judge Chin... would become the sole Asian-American to fill an active judgeship on a United States Circuit Court of Appeals." ~NYT








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U.S. District Judge Thomas Vanaskie of the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
55 years old.





About time!

[chill_wind]

1. So NOW Reid gets his rear in high gear

over stalled DOJ/legal nominees, after Dawn Johnsen takes a walk but a week ago?

Nothing in there about a nominee as her replacement. I wonder who that will be. Has there been any news?