Bloomberg Law with June Grosso and Michael Best on demand via our Bloomberg Radio Plus app free for iPhone and Android devices. And now it's time for daily Bloomberg Law Brief, exploring legal issues in the news. Today, Bloomberg Law host Ton Grosso and Michael Best discussed the ninety four pending federal judges waiting to be approved by the Senate. They speak with Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond, and Charles Gardner, j A professor at Indiana University University
More School of Law. Carl, I can't remember the last time there was not a high number of federal judicial vacancies. Are these vacancies affecting the administration of justice at this point, Jess, they are. It just means more pressure is placed on the other judges uh to carry the substantial caseloads, and it means justice delayed as justice denied, so that litigants
can't have their day in court, especially in civil cases. Charles, is there any statement at all from the Senate or the Republicans as to why they're not moving forward with
these vacancies? Well, I mean there's a tradition here uh for you know, for many years UH confirmation slow down in the latter portion of an administration, and and towards the very end, I think the the idea is, we can we can stall these guys out, and we can name uh the replacements with people whose ideological inclinations are closer to our own. In other words, we'll just wait for a Republican president to jump in and and and take their place. It's it's it's it's pretty clear that
that's what's going on. And if you're asking for any sort of explanation, it's, you know, you can. It tends to it heads you down the road of of you know, claims of judicial activism and so forth on the part of of Obama nominees. But but the bottom line is that they're looking for to replace these judges with people
who are Republican appointees. Carl has An Obama a difficult time getting his federal judicial appointments through even since the very beginning, and I think it's substantially due to Republicans fair to cooperate work closely with the administration. But it's been especially urgent and especially clear the last two years when the Republicans had the majority, and they've managed to
confirm so few judges. That's Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond, and Charles Gardner j a professor at Indiana University Mower School of Law, speaking to Bloomberg Law host Doing Grosso and Michael Best. You can listen to Bloomberg Law with Days at one pm Wall Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio. Yeah, that is this morning's Bloomberg Law Braef. You can find a more legal news at Bloomberg Law dot com and Bloomberg Bienna dot com.
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