Jul 27, 2010
Obama Pushes Senate to Confirm Judges
President Barack Obama called on the Senate Tuesday to vote on long-stalled nominees for the federal judiciary — an issue that has appeared relatively low among his priorities. He said that some nominees have been waiting as long as eight months to be confirmed and that some legislators “have used parliamentary procedures time and again to deny them a vote in the full Senate.” Obama has rarely pushed the judicial nominee issue in public, but Tuesday’s remarks signal a possible shift.