After a brief blip, Judge Adalberto Jordan, formerly of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, was confirmed as a member of the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Congratulations Judge Jordan!
The Atlantic Monthly today published an interesting update on the status of Adalberto Jordan’s nomination to the Eleventh Circuit. Although debate is closed, Judge Jordan is being made to wait a wee bit longer so Rand Paul can make a political statement about foreign policy about Egypt.
Hopefully, only a few more days.
The nomination of Judge Adalberto J. Jordán to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals continues to move through the Senate. On October 13, 2011, the Executive Committee of the Senate Judiciary Committee met to discuss judicial nominations. The committee moved the consideration of Judge Jordán and a few other nominees en banc, and by vocal consent the Committee agreed to report all of the judges to the Senate Floor. Senator Jeff Sessions called out Judge Jordán’s qualifications (before speaking against one of the other nominees). The portion of the committee hearing discussing the nominations is found at 32:33-40:43.
After being nominated in August and questioned by the committee in September, these nominations are just breezing through the process.