Fannie Mae-No Politics (FNMA)

[big-yank]

I "get" all the angst regarding the court system and its apparent failure to resolve any of the Fanniegate litigation except for dismissals. Some of the problem surely is the government stonewalling campaign, and some of it likely stems from plaintiff obstinance and intractability on documents. But I recently have become increasingly concerned that our Federal judiciary is being hijacked for political re-engineering of the Federal benches.

The confirmation impasse for Justice Merrick Garner's nomination for the Supreme Court is just the tip of the iceberg. There are vacancies in many, many jurisdictions that go unfilled because of political gridlock in the confirmation process. It strikes me that the problem is far worse in the Circuit and Appeals Court area where the case load is far greater than the 80 or so SCOTUS decisions routinely heard before the court. There is tons of content on both Bing and Google that document and detail the "open bench" vacancy problem.

So when all of us are frustrated about Judge Sweeney or the Perry Tribunal's failure to act decisively, maybe we could encourage the Senate to get off its ass and get these vacancies filled in a fair and balanced way to get the gridlock cleared. How active does anyone think Justice Garner will be in getting his Appeals Court team moving faster to a verdict when his own nomination process hasn't even permitted him to present his credentials to the Senate Judiciary Committee?

Judge Lamberth is a prime example of a judge slated for retirement that was asked to stay on to help clear the court's caseload.

These endless delays only tend to serve the agenda of the Sammons appeal because nothing ever seems to get anywhere while the meter continues to run in the race to insolvency or further draws from Treasury come this December, 2017.

Happy New Year to all.