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Monday, November 09, 2009

Courts - Still more on Judge David Hamlton's nomination to 7th Circuit

Updating this ILB entry from earlier today, which quoted from the Baltimore Sun story today headed "Long wait may soon end for appeals court nominee from Md: Federal judge in Baltimore could get confirmed today," the news this evening is that Judge Andre M. Davis was indeed today confirmed by the Senate to the 4th Circuit.

Kate Phillips reports in the NY Times blog, "The Caucus" that:

The Senate on Monday voted 72-to-16 to confirm Judge Andre M. Davis to a seat on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is based in Richmond.

Mr. Davis’s appointment to the seat has been a long time coming — nine years, to be exact. President Clinton first nominated him to the seat in October 2000, but the nomination languished in the end months of the Democratic administration. He was nominated again to the seat — which had been vacant all those years — by President Obama in early April. * * *

While Mr. Davis, 60, cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 16-3 several months ago, other judicial nominees are still waylaid — some tangled in partisan or ideological disputes about their rulings or philosophies along Republican and Democratic lines.

Next up for a circuit court vote on his confirmation may be Judge David Hamilton, whose judicial rulings in Indiana on abortion and prayer cases have made him a a target for anti-abortion groups and Republican senators. Senate Democratic leaders plan to file a procedural motion to cut off debate this week, but a vote on Mr. Hamilton isn’t likely to take place until next week, after the Veterans Day recess.

[More] Also see this just-filed story from Roll Call.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 9, 2009 06:46 PM
Posted to Courts in general