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"It was during the Obama administration that Christian school children were ordered to stop praying outside the Supreme Court building because they were violating the law." Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/12/08/... Of course Fox News would like to blame Obama for the alleged actions of the judicial branch but grade school students every where know who runs the show over there:  Thanks for pointing this out Fox.  Judge Christopher Droney, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit 57 Years Old Education: Holy Cross College, B.A., 1976 University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., 1979 Professional Career: Private practice, Hartford, Connecticut, 1979-1993 Deputy mayor, West Hartford, Connecticut, 1983-1985 Mayor, West Hartford, Connecticut, 1985-1989 U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, 1993-1997 88-0 http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll...   Thanks to Tx4obama for the heads up.  Justice Andrew David Hurwitz, Arizona Supreme Court (Appointed by Governor Janet Napolitano) Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 65 Years Old (not a spring chicken) “Justice Hurwitz has proven himself to be not only a first-rate legal mind but a faithful public servant. It is with full confidence in his ability, integrity, and independence that I nominate him to the bench of the United States Court of Appeals.” President Obama http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office... Although Conservative blogs state that he is "Extremely liberal" that is likely at least an oversimplification if not a decent exaggeration. http://azjudgesreview.blogspot.com/2008/09...    Judge Patty Shwartz Magistrate Judge, United States District Court for the District of New Jersey Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 50 Years old (age not confirmed) President Obama nominated Paterson-born federal magistrate Judge Patty Shwartz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Wednesday. "Judge Shwartz has a long and impressive record of service and a history of handing down fair and judicious decisions," Obama said in a news release. "She will be a thoughtful and distinguished addition to the Third Circuit." Shwartz is a 1983 graduate from Rutgers University who got her law degree in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She worked in the U.S. Attorney's Office from 1989 through 2003, a term that included two stints as chief of the criminal division interrupted by service as executive assistant to the U.S. Attorney. http://www.northjersey.com/news/Obama_nomi... White House Release: http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office...    Henry F. Floyd, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 64 Years Old "The court finds that the president (Bush) has no power, neither express nor implied, neither constitutional nor statutory, to hold petitioner as an enemy combatant." -Judge Henry F. Floyd, 2005. XML U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 112th Congress - 1st Session Question: On the Nomination (Confirmation Henry F. Floyd, of South Carolina... Vote Number: 154 Vote Date: October 3, 2011, 05:33 PM Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Nomination Confirmed Nomination Number: PN90 Vote Counts: YEAs 96, NAYs 0 http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll...    Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen: US District, Central District of California Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit 46 years old She was nominated by Obama in July of 2009 and confirmed in December of that year. He is elevating her very quickly. http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office... - "The journey to the upper echelons of the nation’s judicial system has been a long one for Nguyen. It started in 1975, when 10-year old Nguyen fled her native Vietnam with her family after the fall of Saigon. They boarded one of the last American military transports out of the city, and spent several weeks in a refugee camp in the Philippines before arriving at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base near San Diego." http://www.oxy.edu/x9275.xml Stay tuned.  SAN FRANCISCO – The Hon. Pamela Ann Rymer, a distinguished judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, died Wednesday, September 21, 2011, after a long illness. She was 69.
http://howappealing.law.com/Judge_Rymer_ob... Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Nominated by George H.W. Bush on February 28, 1989, to a seat vacated by Anthony Mcleod Kennedy; Confirmed by the Senate on May 18, 1989, and received commission on May 22, 1989. http://www.fjc.gov/servlet/nGetInfo?jid=20...  Judge Adalberto José Jordán, Judge, U. S. District Court, Southern District of Florida Nominated by William J. Clinton on March 15, 1999 Adjunct professor, University of Miami School of Law, his alma mater x2 Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit 49 Years Old When members of Miami’s legal establishment took Sandra Day O’Connor out for a steak dinner on Brickell Avenue last year, Adalberto Jordan insisted that others sit next to the retired Supreme Court justice. “He didn’t elbow me out,” recalled then-U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Sloman, who sat on one side of O’Connor at The Capital Grille. “He wanted other people to get to know her,” added then-Federal Bar Association President William Roppolo, who sat on the other side. Of course, everybody in the party already knew that Jordan, a University of Miami law school alum, had served a coveted U.S. Supreme Court clerkship with O’Connor back in 1988-89. That he never mentioned his relationship with her that night is a hallmark of the humble U.S. District Court judge, who doesn’t advertise his formidable achievements, including his appointment at 37 by President Bill Clinton to the federal bench in South Florida. Now, Jordan, 49, is poised to become the first Cuban-born judge on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which decides the major federal legal disputes of Florida, Georgia and Alabama. When President Barack Obama last month nominated Jordan — who has presided over nearly 200 federal trials in Miami — the president praised his “commitment to fairness and judicial integrity.” Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/09/03/2390...   Previous post http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu... Judge Evan Jonathan Wallach, United States Court of International Trade
Nominated by William J. Clinton on June 27, 1995 Current Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit 60 Years Old "We know that U.S. military tribunals and U.S. judges have examined certain types of water-based interrogation and found that they constituted torture. That's a lesson worth learning. The study of law is, after all, largely the study of history. The law of war is no different. This history should be of value to those who seek to understand what the law is -- as well as what it ought to be." "Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime," Evan Wallach, Sunday, November 4, 2007 Education University of Arizona, B.A., 1973 University of California, Berkeley, J.D., 1976 Cambridge University, LL.B., 1981  http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office... Press Headline/article
U.S. Appeals Court: OK to check DNA of those arrested Monday, July 25, 2011 By Rich Lord, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette A closely divided 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found that the collection of DNA samples from people arrested -- but not yet convicted -- of crimes is constitutional, in an opinion released today. In a precedent-setting ruling, the appeals court rejected U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone's 2009 order finding that law enforcement could not collect DNA from Ruben Mitchell, who faces a federal charge of attempting to possess and distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. Judge Cercone had found that requiring pre-trial detainees to submit DNA samples, which is done under the DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act of 2000, violates the 4th Amendment's search and seizure rules. In an 8-6 ruling, the circuit judges found that people who are arrested have "a diminished expectation of privacy in their identities." Outweighing their privacy, they found, is the importance to law enforcement of correctly identifying people who are charged with crimes, determining their criminal history, potentially linking them to unsolved crimes and promptly ruling out involvement in a crime in cases in which the DNA does not match that found at the scene. Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11206/11628... Majority In sum, under the totality of the circumstances, given arrestees‘ and pretrial detainees‘ diminished expectations of privacy in their identities and the Government‘s legitimate interests in the collection of DNA from these individuals, we conclude that such collection is reasonable and does not violate the Fourth Amendment." -Majority FUENTES (Clinton), Circuit Judge, with whom Circuit Judges SLOVITER (Carter), SCIRICA (Reagan), SMITH (G.W. Bush), FISHER (G.W. Bush), CHAGARES (G.W. Bush), JORDAN (G.W. Bush), and HARDIMAN (G.W. Bush), join, and AMBRO (Clinton) joins as to Part III only. Dissent "...the Government‟s program of warrantless, suspicionless DNA collection from arrestees and pretrial detainees is fundamentally incompatible with the Fourth Amendment." -Dissent RENDELL (Clinton), Circuit Judge, with whom Circuit Judges McKEE (Clinton), Chief Judge, BARRY (Clinton, senior status judge), GREENAWAY, JR. (Obama), and VANASKIE (Obama) join, and AMBRO (Clinton) joins as to Part II only, dissenting. http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/09471...  *Note: Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, a Clinton appointee, assumed senior status a few days but appears to be acting as an active judge until there is a replacement.  Victoria F. Nourse Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit 51 Years Old Article Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s decision to block the judicial nomination of a University of Wisconsin law professor has drawn a pointed letter of protest from a group of legal academics around the country. Johnson has singlehandedly held up consideration of Victoria Nourse for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which reviews federal cases from Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. “For a single senator from one state within the Circuit to assert a hold, months after the nomination was complete, undermines Wisconsin’s merit-based selection system, blocking highly qualified nominees from a hearing and a vote,” reads the letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy of Vermont and the panel’s top Republican, Charles Grassley of Iowa. “The effect is an unbreakable one-person filibuster.” The professors say a "a nominee of sterling credentials who has served under both Republicans and Democrats" should not be subject to "unending delay." You can click here to see the letter and its 53 signatories, some of whom served under Republican presidents. By tradition, the objections of individual senators, even in the minority, to judicial nominees from their own state are given great deference. With Johnson opposed to Nourse, Democrat Leahy has not scheduled a hearing on her nomination. http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/1257419...   |
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