The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Congratulations to Judge Andre Davis, who was confirmed by the United States Senate today for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. As the NYT Caucus blog points out, Judge Davis is filling a seat vacated by the judge for whom he clerked, Judge Francis Murnaghan Jr., who died [...]
Bench Memos (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
The Senate confirmed Judge Andre Davis to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit today by a vote of 72-16. As David Ingram reports on BLT , The seat that Davis will fill has been vacant since 2000, when Judge Francis Murnaghan Jr. of Baltimore died. President Bill Clinton nominated Davis for the seat, but the choice came near the end of Clinton’s second term and it languished...
The BLT: The Blog of Legal Times (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
The seat that Davis would fill has remained vacant since 2000, when Judge Francis Murnaghan Jr. of Baltimore died. President Bill Clinton nominated Davis for the seat, but the choice came near the end of Clinton’s second term and it languished in the Senate. Then, Senate Democrats blocked President George W. Bush’s attempts to fill the seat, most recently with Maryland’s U.S. Attorney...
