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By Jennfer Bendery | HuffPost | 07/24/2013 4:26 pm EDT
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WASHINGTON ? ?It may not be factually accurate, but some Republican senators just can't resist accusing President Barack Obama of "court-packing" as he tries to fill empty seats on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
During a Wednesday hearing on one of Obama's key judicial nominees, Nina Pillard for the D.C. Circuit, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee resurrected the claim that the president's effort to fill three vacancies on the court amounts to "court-packing." The term describes adding judges to a court with the goal of shifting its political balance, not to fill existing vacancies.
"The president appears to have targeted the D.C. Circuit in hopes that he can pack the court and stack the deck to his advantage," said Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah).
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) noted that the Senate already confirmed a nominee to the D.C. Circuit this year, Sri Srinivasan, and argued that Obama's efforts to fill the court's remaining vacancies are politically motivated.
"I have deep concerns about what the administration is doing now with a package of three nominees to the D.C. Circuit after the Senate just confirmed a very qualified nominee," Cruz said. "I believe this is an attempt by this administration to pack that court."
Not only is the charge factually inaccurate - the court has three empty seats, which the president is constitutionally required to fill - but one could easily make the case that Republican efforts to prevent Obama from filling empty court seats, thereby keeping those courts from having any more judges appointed by a Democrat, are actual instances of "court-unpacking."
Scuffles over the D.C. Circuit come as Senate Republicans have been using a variety of methods to block Obama's judicial nominees.
Tensions over the stalled nominees have gotten so high that Democrats nearly proceeded with filibuster reform earlier this month, a standoff that was defused at the last minute as party leaders cut a deal that allowed some of Obama's executive nominees to get votes.
That deal did nothing to unclog Obama's judicial nominees, though, and filling the D.C. Circuit is a major priority for the president.
Republicans haven't signaled much interest in allowing D.C. Circuit nominees to get a vote. As it stands, the court has 11 seats, three of which are vacant. Lee and Cruz are both are cosponsors of a bill by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) that would eliminate those three seats altogether and keep the court where it is: with eight judges, four of whom were appointed by Democrats and four of whom were appointed by Republicans.
"The judges themselves confirmed everything I've been saying," Grassley said. "Who is in a better position than the judges to make an assessment about the court's workload and the need for additional judges?"
But Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Grassley's argument overlooks the fact that the D.C. Circuit, considered second only to the Supreme Court in terms of its importance, takes on particularly hefty and complex cases that require extra scrutiny.
He also listed off the names of current and former judges on that court -- including Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts -- who have spoken publicly about the court's intense workload.
Plenty of judges who have served on the court "have commented for the record, not anonymously, their views as to the workload of the court," Blumenthal said, "all indicating very strongly and unequivocally that the workload of this court is certainly a tremendous challenge and growing, rather than diminishing."
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IMO: After years of disgracefully blocking the appointments of many judges for the empty seats and putting a larger workload onto the remaining judges while the republicans continually blocked any of Obama?s appointees, the threat of Reid?s ?nuclear filibuster seems to have worked, but Obama needs the rest of the vacancies filled before his tenure ends.
This is the republican way of ?hollowing out? government until they can get back into power and put in all the judges they want; they have defunded many departments and agencies forcing layoffs, and stalled many important bills to bring the unemployment statistics down, and the republican sequester has harmed every poor American with less services, less medical care for the sick and elderly which always has been the bulwark of our Democracy.
The republicans are like a windstorm in a horrible drought era, wreaking havoc wherever they go:
TIME TO VOTE FOLKS !!
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The day after announcing invites to Team Canada?s Olympic orientation camp, GM Steve Yzerman shed some light into the selection process for Sochi.
?There will be more of a premium placed on skating,? he told Sportsnet. ?Playing with a bigger ice surface, I believe there is a priority and an importance in being able to get around the ice, to skate.
?That weighed into our decision (for camp invites) and will weigh into our final decisions on putting this team together.?
Putting a priority on skating was evidence in the camp selection process.
One key member of Canada?s gold medal-winning side of four years ago, Jarome Iginla, wasn?t invited. Despite setting up Sidney Crosby for the game-winning goal in 2010, Iginla has slowed since the Vancouver Olympics, when games were played on an NHL-sized sheet of ice ? in Sochi, players will skate on a sheet that?s 15 feet wider with more space behind the goal lines.
Yzerman?s invites acknowledge the change.
Speedsters like Taylor Hall and Matt Duchene were added to the forward group while on defense, the likes of P.K. Subban and Kris Letang were invited, whereas more physical, stay-at-home defensemen like Francois Beauchemin and Dan Girardi were passed over.
Yzerman said he learned lessons from the 2006 games in Turin, when a slower, big-bodied Canadian team (featuring Adam Foote, Todd Bertuzzi and Robyn Regehr) struggled to adapt to the larger surface.
?I just felt that (the Turin) team needed more speed, both on the back end and up front,? he said. ?We?ll have a more mobile group this year.?
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Henry Ford, who helped establish Detroit as the engine of America's motor industry, sits in a new Model T outside his Detroit plant soon after the car was introduced in 1908. Ford Motor Co reported a nearly 20-percent jump in second-quarter profit on Wednesday, the same day Detroit's bankruptcy hearing began.
On the day a court began hearing the Detroit bankruptcy case, Ford, the company that helped forge the city as America's motor industry capital, reported an almost 20-percent jump in profit.
The automaker's unexpectedly strong earnings for the second quarter of the year, handily beat industry analysts? forecasts and delivered a measure of good news for a Motor City hammered by a long recession and, now, bankruptcy.
Ford reported a net profit of $1.2 billion, an 18.5 percent increase over the April ? June quarter in 2012. On a per-share basis, Ford earned 30 cents, a 4-cent increase from a year earlier. When one-time charges are excluded, Ford earned 45 cents a share compared to the 37-cent consensus forecast, according to FactSet.
(See also: VW, Ford and GM "delight" customers, according to JD Power; Toyota Lags New APEAL study)
?Our strong second quarter with improved results in every region around the world is another proof point that our One Ford plan is continuing to deliver and is building momentum,? Alan Mulally, Ford president and CEO said in a statement with Wednesday's earnings release.
But while Ford narrowed its losses in Europe and began catching up on rivals in China, the carmaker hit it out of the park in North America, generating pre-tax profits of $2.3 billion -- its home market scoring records for both the second quarter and for the first half of 2013.
(See also: Sales Slipping, Toyota Cuts Prices, Boosts Incentives on Camry)
Mulally noted during a later teleconference that Ford achieved record sales of its battery-based products during the quarter ? much of that growth coming at the expense of rival Toyota. But the real winner was Ford?s F-Series truck line-up which has been gaining strong momentum as the U.S. housing market bounces back, despite rising fuel prices.
Ford?s strong second-quarter performance led the maker to announce on Tuesday that it will boost its plans to hire new engineers and other professionals to 3,000 this year. It originally intended to bring onboard another 2,200 white-collar workers.
(See: Ford Wants to Boost White-Collar Hiring - But Faces Engineer Shortage)
That?s particularly good news for a Detroit region that owed much of its 20th Century affluence to Henry Ford and the auto production lines he established in the city to attract workers from all over the world to well-paying jobs.
Detroit has suffered some of the sharpest unemployment in the country during the Great Recession. In fact, Dan Akerson, Chairman and CEO of General Motors, told USA Today this week that the ?macro-economics? of the auto industry?s worst downturn in decades takes much of the blame for Detroit?s filing for Chapter 9 protection, the largest metropolitan bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
GM and Chrysler, as well as Ford, have been hiring aggressively over the last two years, but employment in the metro Detroit region still lags pre-recession levels. Nonetheless, the industry?s comeback, underscored by Ford?s second-quarter earnings report will help buoy the region and could offer a glimpse at a brighter future for the Motor City itself.
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