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initial queue of nominees and you send them to the senate floor, it s going to be really hard to basically pack more into the queue, to make sure that more can get confirmed here. this is obviously a huge priority for democrats especially given that republicans control the house. this is a way for them to sort of put their put their mark as a party on the federal judiciary especially after so many years of republican senate control and of course donald trump in the white house during which republicans confirmed a record number of right leaning judges to federal courts at the district court level, the circuit court level, and of course the supreme court as well democrats have a lot of ground to catch up on here and senator feinstein s absence is making it really difficult for them to do that and there s been some among even democrats who perhaps the senator should resign if needed. andrew, it contributes to a pretty poisonous atmosphere on capitol hill
congressman ro khanna, calling for her to resign, we haven t seen that from any senate democrats. i mean, we should really say just as a point of context, ro khanna is the co chair of one of the people seeking to replace diane yes. in the senate appointed very well be appointed and to your point about the judicial votes she s missed. dianne feinstein has missed 60 votes in total. 25 of them, though, have been on these all important judicial nominees and in the context of all of this going on about the abortion . uh you know rulings at the district and at the circuit court level. democrats are really on edge and, frankly, very upset about this because they re worried about the court. sure they re trying to move as many judges through the pipeline as they can, in case they lose control at the end of next year or in case mitch mcconnell uses an election year as a reason to try to block judicial nominees. so there are two things going on here. one is that if dianne feinstein were to leave
federal, circuit court level, whose educational backgrounds are unparalleled, whose experience as judges, experience as clerking, would stand up to any other currently serving member of the supreme court and would certainly come pair very favorably with the nominees of the previous administration. let s look at the last year for a moment, jake. president biden nominated a wide range of highly skilled, competent, capable jurists and we in the judiciary committee have filled vacancies on the district court and the circuit court with these nominees. i expect we ll be doing that again. if you take a welcome in detail at the experience, the education, the life story of just one of the potential nominees. and i m talking about d.c. circuit court judge ketanji brown jackson, it is impressive. beyond impressive. any law firm in america, district court in manager, any practitioner of the law in manager, would respect and be honored to have her as a colleague. whether on the bench or at the
have an opinion economy, 2005, by the united states supreme court and this is the key opinion when it comes to obstruction. it s arthur anderson petitioner versus united states.e the district court level arthur anderson lost in the circuit court level in the fifth circuit they lost but what did they lose? they were accused of obstructi obstruction, destroy documents among others andrew wiseman, deputy to mr. mueller, he led the effort. arthur anderson went broke, 80000 people lost their jobs in the supreme court reversed the lower court s in a c nine-zero opinion and six, seven, eight pages long and almost perfunctory. but they say and here is wait a minute, you can t just accuse someone of objection because we don t like what they said or that the try to impede. there are elements to describe the not so easy to prove. knowingly dishonest and a corrupt intent. resident of the united states