Vacancies today are 52 percent higher than when Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., declared a "Vacancy crisis" in July 2016.
They are 88 percent higher than in September 2015, when then-Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., warned that "We are heading into a judicial vacancy crisis."
In April 2014, Leahy also said it was fair to compare vacancies today with vacancies at the same point in previous administrations.
In March 2012, Democratic Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said that 35 judicial emergency vacancies would cause the administration of justice to suffer "At every level." Not only are judicial emergencies 80 percent higher today, but they have been open an average of 24 percent longer than when Durbin warned about this crisis.
Under any standard used by Democrats in the past, the current sustained level of judicial vacancies is a serious problem-and its cause is equally clear.
As Leahy put it in 2014: "Such obstruction is not worthy of the Senate, and the resulting judicial vacancies do great harm to the judicial system."
While it doesn't look like even that's going to happen in the closing days of the 115th Congress, a larger Republican majority in the 116th must push forward to address this vacancy crisis.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/14/by-democrats-own-standard-we-have-a-judicial-vacancy-crisis/
They are 88 percent higher than in September 2015, when then-Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., warned that "We are heading into a judicial vacancy crisis."
In April 2014, Leahy also said it was fair to compare vacancies today with vacancies at the same point in previous administrations.
In March 2012, Democratic Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill., said that 35 judicial emergency vacancies would cause the administration of justice to suffer "At every level." Not only are judicial emergencies 80 percent higher today, but they have been open an average of 24 percent longer than when Durbin warned about this crisis.
Under any standard used by Democrats in the past, the current sustained level of judicial vacancies is a serious problem-and its cause is equally clear.
As Leahy put it in 2014: "Such obstruction is not worthy of the Senate, and the resulting judicial vacancies do great harm to the judicial system."
While it doesn't look like even that's going to happen in the closing days of the 115th Congress, a larger Republican majority in the 116th must push forward to address this vacancy crisis.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/12/14/by-democrats-own-standard-we-have-a-judicial-vacancy-crisis/
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