Judicial nominees sitting on sidelines
As if Congress didn’t have enough on its plate this hectic lame duck session — the “fiscal cliff,” Benghazi probes and the farm bill to name a few — the Senate is facing an escalating backlog of pending federal judicial nominations that the legal community says is hurting the justice system...
There are 82 federal judge vacancies nationwide — 53 more than at this point in President George W. Bush’s first term, said the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic office.
Republicans have been in no hurry the past year to act on many of Mr. Obama’s judicial picks, as they were hopeful a GOP president would occupy the White House in 2013 and appoint his own candidates.
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