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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/current-events/nominating-judge-humetewa-ninth-circuit/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/carl-tobias/">Carl Tobias</a></p>
<p>Last October, Ninth Circuit Judge Barry Silverman assumed senior status after 18 years of dedicated service on the nation’s largest appellate court, which encompasses California, seven other western states, Hawaii, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The jurist’s decision to become a senior judge furnished President Donald Trump a valuable opportunity to appoint U.S. District Judge Diane Humetewa of Arizona as the first Native American federal appellate jurist. Because she is a highly qualified, mainstream judge and the court — which had four vacancies on January 1, 2017 — needs all of its jurists, the President should promptly nominate Judge Humetewa. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/current-events/nominating-judge-humetewa-ninth-circuit/#more-4317" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Nominating Judge Humetewa to the Ninth Circuit

<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/current-events/senator-feinstein-judge-koh/"></div><p>By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/carl-tobias">Carl Tobias</a></p>
<p>On December 10, the Senate recessed without conducting a final vote on United States District Judge Lucy Haeran Koh. This means that her February Ninth Circuit nomination will expire when the 115th Congress assembles on January 3. The upper chamber failed to provide Judge Koh’s ballot, even though she is an experienced, mainstream jurist, who enjoys the powerful support of California Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, won bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee approval in September and has languished on the floor ever since. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/current-events/senator-feinstein-judge-koh/#more-2865" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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Senator Feinstein and Judge Koh

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<div class="at-above-post-homepage addthis_tool" data-url="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/president-elect-trump-federal-judiciary-thanksgiving/"></div><p style="text-align: left;" align="center">By <a href="https://lareviewofbooks.org/contributor/carl-tobias/">Carl Tobias</a></p>
<p>Last Friday, Donald Trump, thousands of Trump University students, and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced that they had settled three long running cases alleging that the school had defrauded many students. The lawsuits’ settlement resulted substantially from concerted efforts by Southern District of California Judge Gonsalvo Curiel. The jurist persistently moved toward resolution one case, which he had scheduled for trial next Monday while suggesting that the parties consider a settlement. At Thanksgiving, Mr. Trump and millions of Americans should give thanks for the dedicated service rendered by Judge Curiel and hundreds of federal judges, who assiduously labor every day to deliver justice. <a href="https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/essays/president-elect-trump-federal-judiciary-thanksgiving/#more-2707" class="more-link">Read more</a></p>
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President-Elect Trump, the Federal Judiciary, and Thanksgiving

Carl Tobias is the Williams Chair in Law at the University of Richmond.