“Lucy Koh, a federal judge in San Jose who has refereed Silicon Valley wars over patents and employment, was nominated Thursday by President Obama to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, a nomination with an uncertain future because of a partisan standoff over judicial appointments,” Bob Egelko reports for The San Francisco Gate.
“Koh, 47, a former federal prosecutor, was nominated to the U.S. District Court by Obama in 2010 and confirmed 90-0 by the Senate,” Egelko reports. “She became the nation’s second-ever Korean American federal judge and would be the second of Korean ancestry on an appeals court if confirmed to the Ninth Circuit… She is married to state Supreme Court Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar.”
“But the climate for Obama’s nominees has grown chillier as his term nears an end. Senate Republican leaders have refused to consider anyone the president chooses to succeed the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,” Egelko reports. “And the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed only one appeals court judge last year and another one last month, leaving numerous seats unfilled. Republicans have been particularly critical of the Ninth Circuit, one of the nation’s more liberal appeals courts.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Failing upwards.
This nomination makes no sense unless Obama’s smoking crack.
Senate confirmation hearings for Koh should move no quicker than her most notable trial, Apple v. Samsung.
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