PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA ON THE REPUBLICAN REFUSAL TO DO THEIR JOBS

Did you know it wasn't just the Supreme Court nomination of Merrick where the republicans refused to respect President Obama's nominations? 

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A partial list of the failed, stalled or filibustered district court nominees submitted by President Barack Obama

(from Wikipedia)

• United States District Court for the Western District of New York
  • Michael Charles Green: Green, a district attorney in western New York, was nominated on January 26, 2011. He was reported out of the Senate Judiciary Committee and onto the Senate floor, but his nomination languished for more than six months before being returned to the White House at the behest of Senate Republicans at the end of the session of Congress that concluded in December 2011. Utah Sen. Mike Lee was the lone senator to oppose Green in the committee vote, and no Republican senators publicly explained their opposition to his nomination. In follow-up questions to his hearing testimony, however, several Republican senators focused on Green's decision to seek drug treatment rather than jail for some offenders, while others queried Green about his views on the death penalty. On December 18, 2011, a White House spokesman told a local newspaper that Obama would not be renominating Green to the seat.^[66] "Mike Green would have made an outstanding judge and it is very unfortunate not only for him, but for a strong judiciary, that partisan politics stood in the way," Sen. Chuck Schumer said in a statement on December 18, 2011. On December 19, 2011, Green said at a press conference that he blamed local opposition on his failed judicial nomination, as a result of his prosecution of public corruption.^[67] In May 2012, Obama nominated Frank Paul Geraci, Jr. to the seat to which Green had been nominated, and the Senate confirmed Geraci to the seat on December 13, 2012.
  • Kathleen Marie Sweet
• United States District Court for the District of Maryland
  • Charles Bernard Day: Day, a magistrate judge in Maryland, was initially nominated in July 2010, but his nomination was withdrawn by President Barack Obama on October 31, 2011. According to Senators Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin, Day was blocked from receiving a hearing by Senate Republicans.^[68] In November 2011, Obama nominated George Levi Russell III to fill the vacant seat to which Day had been nominated, and the Senate confirmed Russell on May 14, 2012.
  • Stephanie A. Gallagher
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma
  • Arvo Mikkanen: Mikkanen was nominated after being recommended by Democratic Governor Brad Henry.^[69] His nomination was immediately met with opposition from members of Oklahoma's congressional delegation, with Republican Senators James Inhofe and Tom Coburn and Democratic Representative Dan Boren expressing disappointment that they were not consulted on the nomination.^[70][71] However, the Obama White House disputes that they did not consult with the Oklahoma congressional delegation.^[71] Public opposition to Mikkanen's nomination had centered around procedural grounds rather than substantive issues about Mikkanen himself.^[70][71] In February 2012, Obama nominated then-federal magistrate judge John E. Dowdell to the seat to which Mikkanen had been nominated. The Senate confirmed Dowdell on December 11, 2012.
• United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin
  • Louis B. Butler: Butler ran for the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2000, but was defeated. He was appointed to the Wisconsin Supreme Court in 2004, but he narrowly lost the 2008 election to retain the seat.^[72] Critics argued that Butler should not be appointed to the federal bench after having been twice rejected by the voters of his state.^[72] Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, who was elected in 2010, immediately put a hold on Butler's nomination once he took office, and senators returned Butler's nomination to the White House in December 2011. On November 7, 2013, President Obama nominated James D. Peterson to fill this vacancy and he was confirmed on May 8, 2014.
• United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia
  • Natasha Perdew Silas: Georgia's two Republican senators, Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss, opposed Silas for reasons they declined to discuss. As a result, Silas never received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary.^[73] Her nomination was returned to President Barack Obama on December 17, 2011. On December 19, 2013 President Obama nominated Mark Howard Cohen to fill this vacancy. He was confirmed on November 18, 2014.
  • Linda T. Walker: Originally nominated on January 26, 2011. Her nomination expired when it was returned to the President on December 17, 2011. On December 19, 2013 President Obama nominated Leigh Martin May to fill this vacancy. She was confirmed on November 13, 2014.
  • Michael P. Boggs: Originally nominated on December 19, 2013 to the seat expected to be vacated by Judge Julie E. Carnes, who was nominated to United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on the same day. David Scott, U.S. Representative Georgia's 13th district, criticized the nomination of Boggs because of Boggs' votes in the legislature to retain Confederate insignia in the state flag of Georgia, restrict abortion, and ban same-sex marriage.^[74] Boggs was nominated as part of a group of nominees that won approval of Georgia's U.S. Senators, to allow votes on their nominations.^[74] He received a hearing before the full panel of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on May 13, 2014 but never reported from committee. On December 30, 2014, retiring Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) revealed that he had been advised in late November by White House chief of staff Denis McDonough that Boggs would not be renominated in 2015 for confirmation by the 114th Congress.^[75] On July 30, 2015 the President nominated judge Dax Eric López to the vacancy.
  • Dax Eric López: On July 30, 2015, President Obama nominated López to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, to the seat vacated by Judge Julie E. Carnes, who was elevated to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.^[76] Georgia Senator David Perdue announced that he would not return Lopez's blue slip, effectively killing his nomination. ^[77]
• United States District Court for the District of Nevada
  • Elissa F. Cadish: On February 16, 2012, President Obama nominated Cadish to be a District Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.^[78] She would replace Judge Philip M. Pro who took senior status in 2011. Due to the fact that Senator Heller had refused to sign and return his blue slip for her nomination, the Senate Judiciary Committee could not hold a hearing on her nomination and the Senate could not proceed on the nomination. Heller's opposition to her nomination and his invocation of "senatorial courtesy" is due to a statement by Cadish indicating that she believed there was no individual right to keep and bear arms, a statement which was made in 2008, prior to Supreme Court decisions explicitly recognizing an individual right to keep and bear arms.^[79] On March 8, 2013, Cadish requested President Obama to withdraw her nomination and on March 13, 2013, President Obama formally withdrew the nomination.^[80] On January 16, 2014 President Obama nominated Richard Franklin Boulware II to fill this vacancy. He was confirmed on June 10, 2014.
  • Anne Rachel Traum
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
  • William L. Thomas: On November 14, 2012, President Barack Obama nominated Thomas to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida^[81] to replace Judge Adalberto Jordan.^[82] Thomas is openly gay.^[83] If confirmed, Thomas would have been the first out gay African American man to serve as a federal judge.^[84] On January 2, 2013, his nomination was returned to the President, due to the sine die adjournment of the Senate. On January 3, 2013, he was renominated to the same office. On September 19, 2013, Senator Marco Rubio announced that - although originally he recommended Thomas to the President - he would not return his blue slip for Thomas, effectively preventing the possibility of a hearing or confirmation vote.^[85] Thomas' nomination was returned to the President due to the sine die adjournment of Congress on January 3, 2014. President Obama had decided not to resubmitt Thomas' nomination a third time.^[86] Florida Circuit Court Judge Robin L. Rosenberg was nominated to the seat on February 26, 2014. She was confirmed on July 22, 2014.
• United States District Court for the District of South Carolina
  • Alison Renee Lee: Originally nominated on June 26, 2013 to the seat being vacated by Judge Cameron McGowan Currie, who took senior status on October 3, 2013.^[87] South Carolina Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott opposed her nomination because of a controversial decision she made involving burglary suspect Lorenzo Young. Lee consolidated his bonds and reduced the total from $225,000 to $175,000 for Young, who subsequently was released and then later charged in the July 1 slaying of a 33-year-old woman.^[88][89] Due to opposition from her home state senators and no opportunity of receiving a committee hearing on September 18, 2014 President Barack Obama withdrew her nomination.^[90]
  • Donald C. Coggins, Jr.
  • Donald W. Beatty
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
• Jennifer Prescod May-Parker: Originally nominated June 20, 2013 to the seat vacated by Malcolm Jones Howard, she never received a hearing. Senator Richard Burr never returned his “blue slip” indicating his support for her -^[91]Her nomination was returned on December 16, 2014 due to the sine die adjournment of the 113th Congress. President Obama chose not to renominate her.
• Patricia Timmons-Goodson

Read about many more at the link: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_judicial_appointment_controversies

White republicans became ham-fisted in their attempts to block President Obama. They worked against him like they had no other in the final two years of his presidency.

But President Obama had already done a lot of work to change the face of our courts. He put a lot of women and non-white males in place. 

from 

THE NEW YORKER, 2014 

Obama’s judicial nominees look different from their predecessors. In an interview in the Oval Office, the President told me, “I think there are some particular groups that historically have been underrepresented—like Latinos and Asian-Americans—that represent a larger and larger portion of the population. And so for them to be able to see folks in robes that look like them is going to be important. When I came into office, I think there was one openly gay judge who had been appointed. We’ve appointed ten.” 

In other words, President Obama started making sure our American courts started looking more like America. Whites should be 64% of any group with any kind of authority and no more than that.Read More http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/obama-brief



It's important to know what happened before, so you can understand what's happening now. Recent black history, made by Barack Obama, is key to what is happening now.

Part of our safety depends upon the judicial appointments President Barack Obama made. Chump is having a hard time getting things like his Muslim Ban past Obama's judges.
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