{"id":133769,"date":"2024-12-06T00:48:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133769"},"modified":"2024-12-06T00:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:48:59","slug":"trumps-victory-has-some-liberal-judges-reversing-their-retirement-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133769","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s victory has some liberal judges reversing their retirement plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aivrhs000u25nu0u5f508n@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The recent reversals by two US district judges on plans to step down from their seats, effectively denying President-elect Donald Trump the opportunity to replace them, has put attention on other judges slated to create prized appellate vacancies but who could have a change of heart now that its clear President Joe Biden won\u2019t choose their successors.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu00053b6mgzd5p2yn@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a scathing speech this week, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell lambasted the \u201ctwo partisan Democrat district judges\u201d who had \u201cunretired.\u201d The Kentucky Republican warned that there could be consequences for them and for the appellate judges in question if they also backtrack on their plans to step aside.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu00063b6mkcxowjm8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThis sort of partisan behavior undermines the integrity of the judiciary. It exposes bold Democratic blue where there should only be black robes,\u201d said McConnell, who played a pivotal role in confirming scores of Trump nominees, including three Supreme Court justices. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to conclude that this is anything other than open partisanship.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu00073b6mbuvokwhh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            US District Judge Algenon Marbley, who had announced last year plans to enter so-called senior status upon the confirmation of his successor, told the White House days after Trump\u2019s election that he was rescinding those intentions. (Senior status is when a judge serves in a semi-retired capacity, allowing them to still help out with cases while creating a vacancy for their seat to be filled.)\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu00083b6mq8ar71ob@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cA successor has not been confirmed, and I have therefore decided to remain on active status and carry out the full duties and obligations of the office,\u201d Marbley, an appointee of President Bill Clinton who sits in the Southern District of Ohio, said in a November 8 letter obtained by CNN. \u201cPlease accept this letter as a formal withdrawal of my intention to assume senior status.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu00093b6mne4m1opz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A second judge, Judge Max Cogburn \u2013 a Western District of North Carolina judge appointed by President Barack Obama \u2013 also informed the White House he was backtracking on his retirement plans, Reuters reported last week. His chambers did not respond to CNN\u2019s request for comment, but, sometime between November 1 and December 1, his name was removed from the list of future vacancies maintained by the administrative office of the judicial branch.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000a3b6m9647eoew@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Federal judges are confirmed for lifetime tenures, and it\u2019s entirely in their discretion when to retire, according to John P. Collins, a professor at George Washington Law School who focuses on judicial nominations. Collins suggested that the two judges may have been wary of the types of nominees Trump would put forward, particularly given his allies\u2019 suggestions that they\u2019d select judges even farther to the right than in his first term as well as Trump\u2019s floating of the use of recess appointments \u2013 a process that sidesteps Senate approval.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000b3b6mvkzycuxt@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cI can imagine a judge thinking, no matter the party that appointed them the first time, that this is not the person I want to give the power to choose my successor to,\u201d Collins said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000d3b6mnsfr4hjl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            A handful of judges in recent years have also reversed retirement plans when they have not been able to secure a preferred successor, including US District Judge Karen Caldwell, a judge who sits in McConnell\u2019s home state. She changed her plans to step down after a deal between the Biden White House and McConnell to replace her with a conservative lawyer fell apart.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000e3b6mjmgejlum@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Cogburn and Marbley are also not the first judges to back off retirement plans after an election. As McConnell himself highlighted, a district judge did the same about-face after President George W. Bush\u2019s reelection in 2004, and another changed his retirement plans when Obama won in 2008.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000f3b6max79fjw9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Biden had not named nominees to replace Cogburn and Marbley. For any Biden nominee for those district court vacancies to go forward they would have needed the support of the Republican senators from North Carolina and Ohio, under a Senate tradition known as blue slips.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000g3b6mwvvagas0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But Biden did nominate replacements for 6th US Circuit Judge Jane Branstetter Stranch and 4th US Circuit Judge James Andrew Wynn, the two appeals court judges McConnell is apparently worried about.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000h3b6mazuuz686@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Leaving those vacancies open for Trump was key to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/21\/politics\/senate-biden-judges-deal\/index.html\">deal the Senate GOP reached with Democrats last month<\/a> that cleared the way for Biden to see a dozen-or-so of his pending district court nominees confirmed before the end of the year. Under the agreement, Republicans ended procedural maneuvers that were stymieing the confirmation of those nominees and in exchange, Democrats would not try to confirm Biden picks for four circuit seats, including for the seats set to be vacated by Stranch and Wynn.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000i3b6mfzdcsmqf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cNever before has a circuit judge unretired after a presidential election,\u201d McConnell said Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s literally unprecedented. And to create such a precedent would fly in the face of a rare bipartisan compromise on the disposition of these vacancies.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000j3b6m2rvcb0pw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            McConnell suggested that the Trump Justice Department could seek the recusal of those judges if cases involving the incoming administration landed in their courts, and he warned that those kinds of recusal requests, as well as ethics complaints, would come the way of the appellate judges if they follow Marbley and Cogburn\u2019s example.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000k3b6m9trqvoqb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Neither Wynn nor Stranch, when announcing their plans to step aside, had indicated a set date on which they would take on senior status. That means that they could still change their plans in light of the current circumstances.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000l3b6mocrksg2c@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Senate Democrats noted Monday evening that McConnell reportedly urged GOP appointed judges to step down in the months before the 2020 election.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000m3b6mztw3jx9i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cSenator McConnell has no room to talk when it comes to judges deciding if and when to retire,\u201d the Senate Judiciary Committee said in X post.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000n3b6mfwiikw9s@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Collins put the odds of Stranch and Wynn changing their plans at more than 50%, as he pointed to those judges\u2019 backstories.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000o3b6mp65buch4@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Wynn, an Obama appointee, was first selected for the appeals court by Clinton in 1999, but was stalled for several years after his home state senator, late Republican Sen. Jesse Helms, of North Carolina, withheld support. Meanwhile, the Biden nominee to replace Stranch was her former clerk, Karla Campbell, who attracted pointed Republican criticism due to her work with a labor rights group.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000p3b6mt3xjg6yj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Both Campbell and Ryan Park, the nominee picked to replace Wynn, faced opposition from their home state GOP senators, but Republicans under Trump ended the blue slip tradition for circuit nominees, meaning that opposition was not on its own enough to block the nominees.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000q3b6mxwxca7wk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN\u2019s messages seeking comment from the two judges submitted with the judges\u2019 courts were not returned.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000r3b6ml2w2p427@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Russell Wheeler \u2013 a non-resident fellow in the Brookings Institution\u2019s Governance Studies program who studies federal judicial selection \u2013 said McConnell had \u201cweak moral ground to stand on,\u201d given his tactics on judicial confirmations, which included a blockade of Obama nominees all the way up to an Obama pick for the Supreme Court, Merrick Garland.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4aj8beu000s3b6mu6p0bhvc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            But, Wheeler said that McConnell \u201cmay be having the effect he wants\u201d if the two appellate judges are \u201cwavering\u201d about whether to keep to their retirement plans.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/05\/politics\/liberal-judges-reversing-their-retirement-plans\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 The recent reversals by two US district judges on plans to step down from their seats, effectively denying President-elect Donald Trump the opportunity to replace them, has put &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=133769\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}