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In November 2007, Obama was asked about the kind of justices he would appoint to the Supreme Court. He responded: I taught constitutional law for 10 years, and . . . when you look at what makes a great Supreme Court justice, it's not just the particular issue and how they rule, but it's their conception of the Court.
Ronnie L. White: On November 7, 2013, President Obama nominated Missouri Supreme Court Justice White to serve on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. [227] White had previously been nominated for the same position by President Bill Clinton in 1997, but the nomination was defeated. [ 228 ]
Among the six original nominees to the Supreme Court, George Washington nominated Robert H. Harrison, who declined to serve. [5] The seat remained empty until the confirmation of James Iredell in 1790. Washington nominated William Paterson for the Supreme Court on February 27, 1793. [6] The nomination was withdrawn by the President the ...
President Joe Biden, who named the first Black woman to the bench in 2022 (Ketanji Brown Jackson), predicted in June, “The next president is likely to have two new Supreme Court nominees.” But ...
The current contentiousness of Supreme Court nominations has much to do with the first nominee Biden encountered as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee: U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Robert ...
PolitiFact noted that Biden's speech was later in the election year than when the GOP blocked Garland, there was no Supreme Court vacancy, there was no nominee under consideration, the Democratic-led Senate never adopted this as a rule, and that Biden did not object to Bush nominating judicial nominees after Election Day. [22]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -President Joe Biden slammed the U.S. Supreme Court as "out of kilter" at a glitzy fundraiser in Los Angeles on Saturday with former President Barack Obama and top Hollywood ...
The total number of Obama Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by the United States Senate is 329, including two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 55 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, 268 judges to the United States district courts, and four judges to the United States Court of International Trade.