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U.S. Supreme Court building. President Barack Obama made two successful appointments to the Supreme Court of the United States. The first was Judge Sonia Sotomayor [1] to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice David H. Souter. [2] Sotomayor was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 6, 2009, by a vote of 68–31.
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. Obama ...
Louis B. Butler: Butler unsuccessfully ran for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2000 and lost by a wide margin. [187] He was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2004, but narrowly lost the 2008 election to retain the seat. [188] On September 30, 2009, President Obama nominated Butler to serve on the District Court.
Garland, 63, has been a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 1997. Obama picks centrist high court nominee; Republicans unmoved Skip to main content
As the first president, George Washington appointed the entire federal judiciary. His record of eleven Supreme Court appointments still stands. Ronald Reagan appointed 383 federal judges, more than any other president. Following is a list indicating the number of Article III federal judicial appointments made by each president of the United ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Supreme Court on Thursday limited the president's power to fill high-level vacancies with temporary appointments, ruling in favor of Senate Republicans in their partisan ...
Barack Obama was succeeded by Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. Shortly afterward, President Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to fill the Scalia vacancy. [84] Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate on April 7, 2017. [85] Two years later, in May 2019, Senator McConnell was asked what he would do if a Supreme Court justice were to die in 2020, an ...
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court signaled a willingness on Monday to rein in President Barack Obama's power to temporarily fill senior government posts without the Senate's approval, a move that ...