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Marcus Clark is Louisiana's newest Supreme Court justice. On Thursday, Clark took his oath of office much the same way he campaigned for the seat -- with a display of his experience as a deputy, prosecutor and judge. Hundreds of people attended the swearing-in ceremony at the Monroe Civic Center's Jack Howard Theatre and heard his former colleagues voice their praise and congratulations.  

By a vote of 59-39, the Senate confirmed President Obama's first judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit this evening. Judge David Hamilton's nomination proceeded past a threatened filibuster earlier this week when the Senate voted for cloture 70-29. Details of the confirmation vote are available here .  

The 70-29 vote limited debate over the qualifications of U.S. District Judge David Hamilton of Indiana, and assured his elevation to the Chicago-based appeals court. Sixty votes were needed to end the filibuster, but confirmation only requires a simple majority of the 100-member Senate. The vote emphatically warned Republicans that with only 40 senators, they're too outnumbered to prevent Obama from making major inroads into a judiciary that was populated over eight years with conservative judges chosen  

Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., defended Indiana Judge David Hamilton on Monday against criticism from fellow GOP senators that Hamilton is outside the mainstream. The Senate is expected to vote today on whether to prevent a GOP filibuster of President Barack Obama's nomination of Hamilton, a U.S. district judge, to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court is the last stop before the Supreme Court for cases from Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin.

has ruled objectively and within the judicial mainstream.   -Richard Lugar

 

The leading critic of a Hoosier nominee for federal judge has it all wrong, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., told his colleagues Monday.  

In June, President Barack Obama nominated Hillsborough County Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell and Judge Jeffrey Viken, Federal Public Defender for North and South Dakota to serve as Federal District Judges.  

You would think that a Supreme Court Justice (and the people who work for one) would know better than to tell any sort of news publication -- even a high school newspaper -- that he needed to approve any articles written about a speech he gave , but that appears to be exactly what happened with Justice Anthony Kennedy and a recent speech to Dalton High School students in Manhattan. The people who work for Kennedy are now trying to claim that this was just to make sure the quotes were accurate, but those wh  

John Frederic Voros Jr., the chief of the criminal appeals division of the Utah Attorney General's Office, sailed through the interview process Tuesday with the Senate Judicial Confirmation Committee.  

MONTPELIER, Vt. Vermont Judge Christina Reiss is up for a Senate confirmation hearing on her nomination to the federal bench.  

John J. O'Connor III, the husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, has died.