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Illinois Insights for How Biden Can Fill the District Court Bench

Illinois Insights for How Biden Can Fill the District Court Bench

Now that Joe Biden has completed his first year of service as President of the United States and the U.S. Senate Democratic majority has concluded the initial session of the 117th Congress, how the chief executive and this upper chamber majority can best fill myriad district court vacancies needs scrutiny. President Biden’s White House and the razor-thin Democratic Senate majority actually realized considerable success in nominating and confirming twenty-nine district court judges throughout 2021. When the second session of the…

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Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Lower Court Appointments

Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Lower Court Appointments

President Donald Trump seized the public’s attention when he capitalized on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by promptly nominating her successor, Amy Coney Barrett, and duly cementing a powerful conservative majority on the Supreme Court before Americans could even appropriately celebrate the life of the pathbreaking jurist. This accelerated Senate confirmation one week before the presidential and senatorial elections illuminates the extreme hypocrisy of President Trump and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (KY), who refused to…

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