Article III Judge #201 confirmed by the Senate, District Judge #144 (#202, #145 coming tomorrow)

[Safiel]

William Hardy was confirmed as United States District Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania. He is Trump’s 201st Article III judicial confirmation and 144th District Judge confirmation.

6:27 p.m. The Hardy nomination was confirmed 65-30.

Senators voting in favor: 51 Republicans, 13 Democrats: Baldwin, Carper, Casey, Feinstein, Hassan, Jones, Kaine, Manchin, Murphy, Shaheen, Sinema, Tester and Warner; 1 Independent: King.

Senators voting against: 30 Democrats.

Senators not voting: 2 Republican: Sasse and Tillis, 2 Democrats: Leahy and Markey, 1 Independent: Sanders.

Tomorrow there will be a cloture vote and confirmation vote on David Joseph to be a United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana. He will be the 202nd Article III judicial confirmation and the 145th District Judge confirmation.

Schedule for tomorrow in the Senate:

The Senate will convene at 10:00 a.m. and resume consideration of the nomination of David Joseph to be a District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana.

At 11:30 a.m., the Senate will conduct two roll call votes:

1. Cloture on the nomination of David Joseph to be a District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana.
2. Cloture on the nomination of Dana Wade to be an Assistant Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Following the vote on the Wade nomination, the Senate will recess to accommodate the weekly caucus luncheons until 2:15 p.m.

At 2:30 p.m. the Senate is expected to conduct two roll call votes on confirmation of the Joseph and Wade nominations.

There are two other nominations on which cloture has been filed that may be brought up for a cloture vote tomorrow.

[WuWei]

Not going to catch Carter, but not bad.

[Safiel]

As it stands right now.

Overall, Carter still holds the overall record of 261 Article III appointments in a single Presidential term.
Reagan had 217 in his second term
Clinton had 203 in his first term.
GW Bush had 204 in his first term.

So a very good chance Trump will finish in second place for Article III appointments in a single Presidential term.

[WuWei]

@Safiel

As it stands right now.

Overall, Carter still holds the overall record of 261 Article III appointments in a single Presidential term.
Reagan had 217 in his second term
Clinton had 203 in his first term.
GW Bush had 204 in his first term.

So a very good chance Trump will finish in second place for Article III appointments in a single Presidential term.

For first term he is there, is he not?

[WildRose]

Mitch needs to get on the stick. He’s had 3.5 years to get these nominations through.

The pace certainly seems to have slowed considerably.

[Safiel]

@WildRose

Mitch needs to get on the stick. He’s had 3.5 years to get these nominations through.

The pace certainly seems to have slowed considerably.

Article III Judicial confirmations will resume next week, after a full 84 day hiatus

COVID-19 has been an absolute godsend to the Democratic Party in one critical aspect. It has stopped Article III Judicial confirmations dead for fully 84 days. Now while the Senate likely would have been on break some of those weeks and on legislative business other of those weeks, they clearly have lost a significant amount of time that cannot be made up. In numbers, I estimate 20 to 25 confirmations have been lost from Trump’s potential first (only?) term total. Most likely, Article I cour…

COVID-19 is the reason, as explained in the linked thread. There was a full 84 day Senate hiatus.

[WildRose]

Which never should have occurred, that’s on Mitch.

[Safiel]

David Joseph was confirmed to the Western District of Louisiana 55 to 42. (#202, #145)