The White House on Wednesday announced a new slate of 11 judicial nominees, making good on a promise last month to name monthly waves of candidates to the federal bench in a methodical effort to fill more than 120 openings.
The administration’s attention to judicial vacancies stands in contrast to its less vigorous efforts to fill empty positions in the executive branch, where many senior positions remain vacant.
The new nominees, like the 10 announced last month, include prominent conservative judges and scholars.
President Trump’s appointment of Justice Neil M. Gorsuch to the Supreme Court created one of the vacancies the White House now seeks to fill. Justice Gorsuch had served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in Denver.
The administration hopes to replace him with Allison H. Eid, a member of the Colorado Supreme Court. Justice Eid, like some of Mr. Trump’s earlier nominees, was on lists of 21 potential Supreme Court nominees issued during the presidential campaign. The lists were compiled with the help of two conservative groups, the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation.
Mr. Trump’s new slate includes two other nominees to federal appeals court. One, Stephanos Bibas, is a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania who served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and has argued several cases before the Supreme Court. He is to be nominated to the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia.
The other, Judge Ralph R. Erickson, serves on the Federal District Court in North Dakota and will be nominated to the Eighth Circuit, in St. Louis.
Full Content: The Washington Times
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