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Filling The Fourth Circuit Vacancies, Carl W. Tobias
Filling The Fourth Circuit Vacancies, Carl W. Tobias
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Federal judicial selection has become increasingly controversial. Allegations and recriminations, partisan division, and incessant paybacks have accompanied the appeals court appointments process for decades. These phenomena were pervasive in the administration of President George W. Bush as well as in nominations and confirmations to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, particularly with respect to judgeships assigned to North Carolina.
The protracted vacancies have eroded the Fourth Circuit's delivery of justice, as operating without the fifteen circuit judges whom Congress authorized has exacted a toll. Across two and a half recent years, the court functioned absent a …