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Speaker 1: exploring legal issues in the news. Today, Bloomberg Law host

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Speaker 1: Ton Grosso and Michael Best discussed the ninety four pending

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Speaker 1: federal judges waiting to be approved by the Senate. They

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Speaker 1: speak with Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond,

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Speaker 1: and Charles Gardner, j A professor at Indiana University University

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Speaker 1: More School of Law. Carl, I can't remember the last

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Speaker 1: time there was not a high number of federal judicial vacancies.

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Speaker 1: Are these vacancies affecting the administration of justice at this point, Jess,

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Speaker 1: they are. It just means more pressure is placed on

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Speaker 1: the other judges uh to carry the substantial caseloads, and

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Speaker 1: it means justice delayed as justice denied, so that litigants

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Speaker 1: can't have their day in court, especially in civil cases. Charles,

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Speaker 1: is there any statement at all from the Senate or

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Speaker 1: the Republicans as to why they're not moving forward with

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Speaker 1: these vacancies? Well, I mean there's a tradition here uh

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Speaker 1: for you know, for many years UH confirmation slow down

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Speaker 1: the very end, I think the the idea is, we

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Speaker 1: can we can stall these guys out, and we can

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Speaker 1: name uh the replacements with people whose ideological inclinations are

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Speaker 1: closer to our own. In other words, we'll just wait

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Speaker 1: for a Republican president to jump in and and and

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Speaker 1: take their place. It's it's it's it's pretty clear that

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Speaker 1: that's what's going on. And if you're asking for any

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Speaker 1: sort of explanation, it's, you know, you can. It tends

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Speaker 1: to it heads you down the road of of you know,

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Speaker 1: claims of judicial activism and so forth on the part

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Speaker 1: of of Obama nominees. But but the bottom line is

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Speaker 1: that they're looking for to replace these judges with people

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Speaker 1: who are Republican appointees. Carl has An Obama a difficult

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Speaker 1: time getting his federal judicial appointments through even since the

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Speaker 1: very beginning, and I think it's substantially due to Republicans

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Speaker 1: fair to cooperate work closely with the administration. But it's

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Speaker 1: when the Republicans had the majority, and they've managed to

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Speaker 1: confirm so few judges. That's Carl Tobias, a professor at

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Speaker 1: the University of Richmond, and Charles Gardner j a professor

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Speaker 1: at Indiana University Mower School of Law, speaking to Bloomberg

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