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There are three vacancies on the U.S. courts of appeals and 40 vacancies on the U.S. district courts, [2] [3] as well as ten announced vacancies that may occur before the end of Trump's term (one for the courts of appeals and nine for district courts). [Note 1] [4] Trump has not made any recess appointments to the federal courts.
[335] She was the 8th Trump appointee to the federal bench rated as "Not Qualified" by the ABA's Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. [336] Before her appointment, the nominee had only taken part in two trials — both one-day trials in a state court conducted while she was still in law school. [336]
A portion of a controversial law championed by Texas Republicans as a supposed voter fraud deterrent was overly vague. Texas AG’s Voter Fraud Probes Are 'Unconstitutional' And Must Stop, Judge Rules
The attention on potential Supreme Court vacancies has so far been driven entirely by forces outside the court – and rampant speculation based on a series of murky clues and past practices.
In the history of the United States, there have been approximately 32 unsuccessful recess appointments to United States federal courts. [1] 22 individuals have been appointed to a United States federal court through a recess appointment who were thereafter rejected by the United States Senate when their name was formally submitted in nomination, either by a vote rejecting the nominee, or by ...
A three-justice panel of the 5th Court of Appeals in Dallas in a 2-1 ruling in April agreed that Paxton is encumbered by legal and ethical considerations, and it allowed the punitive case to move ...
Texas v. Pennsylvania, 592 U.S. ___ (2020), was a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the administration of the 2020 presidential election in four states in which Joe Biden defeated then-incumbent president Donald Trump.
Correction: This article has been updated to reflect that Audrey Louis’s district does not include Bexar County. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) office executed search warrants in one ...