# Judicial nominations per president?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judicial-nominations-per-president/300142>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 19, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judicial-nominations-per-president/300142 "2005-04-19T22:54:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2005, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judicial-nominations-per-president/300142/1 "2005-04-19T22:54:35Z")

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I have heard that Clinton had a harder time getting confirmations than Bush is having, but I can’t find any numbers that show that. So, what I am looking for is something that shows the total number of nominees for the various federal courts for each president, the number of confirmations, rejections, and returns. Also, a reason of why the nominee was returned would be great too (ie how many were blocked or filibustered as opposed to the number that were returned do to time limits.)

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judicial-nominations-per-president/300142/2 "2005-04-20T00:02:51Z")

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The reason Clinton had more trouble, was that the pubbies would not let the nominations out of commitee.

They wouldn’t even let them get out for a vote.

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**Author:** ![MrTuffPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f475e1/32.png) [@MrTuffPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrTuffPaws)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judicial-nominations-per-president/300142/3 "2005-04-20T00:37:30Z")

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But are there any numbers that show that?

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**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judicial-nominations-per-president/300142/4 "2005-04-20T00:44:20Z")

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> [@Reeder](#):
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> The reason Clinton had more trouble, was that the pubbies would not let the nominations out of commitee.
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> They wouldn’t even let them get out for a vote.

Am I correct in inferring that you condemn such behavior?

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**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/judicial-nominations-per-president/300142/5 "2005-04-20T03:28:15Z")

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> [@Random](#):
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> Am I correct in inferring that you condemn such behavior?

Of course.

They should have let them out and used the filibuster just like God intended!

🙂  
The whole point is that both parties blocked nominanations. But if you ask the pubbies…they didn’t do any such thing.