Senate Republicans, which have been in charge of the legislative chamber since the start of the year, have not confirmed any of President Obama's 16 pending judicial nominees, Huffington Post's Jennifer Bendery reports. U.S. Attorney General nominees Loretta Lynch also has been waiting for a confirmation vote.
Eight of those nominees are for courts facing "judicial emergencies" because the number of cases per judge on those courts is more than 600 or has stayed between 430 and 600 for more than 18 months, Bendery reports.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Chuck Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Bendery the nominees are not moving because Democrats moved to confirm 11 judicial nominees in the lame-duck session at the end of 2014, instead of holding them over and letting new members of Congress review them.
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