Press Release - The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Press Call TODAY at 2:15 ET: Confirm More Judges
Senator Coons, AZ, OH & SC Lawyers to Speak on the Importance of Filling Judicial Vacancies
For Immediate Release
Contact: Shin Inouye, 202.869.0398, inouye@archives.civilrights.org
March 15, 2012
WASHINGTON, DC – On the day after Senate leaders reached a deal to confirm 14 judicial nominees that have been languishing due to unprecedented obstruction, Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, civil rights advocate Nancy Zirkin, and prominent attorneys from Arizona, Ohio and South Carolina will discuss the need for the Senate to continue to address the judicial vacancy crisis by considering judicial nominees in a timely matter.
As the federal judiciary reels from more than 80 judicial vacancies, nominees to the federal courts during President Obama’s term have had to wait on average four times as long for a Senate vote as did President Bush’s nominees at this point in his presidency. Confirming 14 of his nominees over the next several weeks is a step forward, but more work remains to be done, especially in states like Arizona, Ohio, South Carolina and others that have existing judicial vacancies, including some that have been designated as “judicial emergencies.”
WHAT: Press call on judicial nominations. A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a national civil rights advocate, and lawyers from Arizona, Ohio and South Carolina where there are judicial vacancies will urge the Senate to confirm all pending nominees.
WHEN: TODAY, March 15th at 2:15 PM ET
WHO:
Senator Chris Coons of Delaware, Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee
Nancy Zirkin, Executive Vice President of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
Gregory J. Kuykendall, Kuykendall & Associates, Tucson, Arizona
Michael Meuti, Baker & Hostetler, American Constitutional Society Northeast Ohio Lawyer Chapter leader
Amand Derfner, Partner, Derfner, Altman & Wilborn, Charleston, S.C.
HOW:
Dial-in Information: 800-894-5910 – Verbal Passcode: JUDICIAL
