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In total Bush appointed 193 Article III federal judges, including two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 42 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, 148 judges to the United States district courts and one judge to the United States Court of International Trade.
In March 2001, the Bush administration stopped relying on the American Bar Association (ABA) for the screening process for qualified judicial candidates. The administration justified the move by saying the ABA was liberal. [91] On May 9, 2001, President Bush announced his first eleven court of appeals nominees in a special White House ceremony ...
September 17, 2007: President Bush announces his nomination of former Circuit Court Judge Michael Mukasey to serve as Attorney General, subject to confirmation by the Senate. President Bush also announces a surprise appointment: Peter Keisler is to become Acting Attorney General, superseding his previous August 27, 2007, appointment of ...
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 ...
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In total Bush appointed 327 Article III federal judges, including two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States (including one chief justice), 62 judges to the United States courts of appeals, 261 judges to the United States district courts and 2 judges to the United States Court of International Trade.
Senator Orrin Hatch, the Republican leader of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the 106th Congress mentioned the controversy over President George H.W. Bush's court of appeals nominees during the following controversy involving the confirmation of any more Democratic court of appeals nominees during the last two years of President Bill ...
In December 1982, Reagan’s Counsel to the President, Fred Fielding, wrote in a memo that the joint White House-Justice Department working group “has identified Benjamin C. Toledano ... as a well-qualified candidate for nomination to the existing vacancy on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. However, we believe the facts described below ...