CWA Urges Senate to Confirm the President's Judicial Nominations

CWA commended President Obama for announcing three new nominations to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday, and called on the Senate to confirm those nominations.

In a press statement, CWA said:

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is considered to be the second most important court in the nation, after the U.S. Supreme Court, because of the issues it hears, its responsibility for federal agency review and its impact on millions of Americans. That's why the nominations announced by President Obama today to fill three vacancies on this court are critical, and why the Senate must act to confirm them.

The President is making appointments and nominations as part of the job he was elected to do, not 'packing the courts,' as some Republican senators wrongly claim. The politics of gridlock, all too obvious in today's U.S. Senate, have no place in our democracy. The President's nominations, whether for judgeships or federal agencies, deserve the advice and consent of the Senate, not obstructionism.

Currently there are three vacancies on the court, and decisions have been made by a conservative panel of judges appointed by President Bush. This is the court that determined that recess appointments made by several Presidents are invalid, including the appointments of two members to the NLRB made by President Obama.