Commentary: The Vacant Fourth

Sunday's Times-Dispatch contains an editorial taking the Bush administration to task for not acting to fill the 1/3 vacant Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. Soon five of the fifteen seats will be vacant, though there continues to be numerous qualified candidates for the judgeships. Among the names the Times-Dispatch mentions as worthy of a seat on the Fourth Circuit are Virginia Supreme Court Justice and UR Law's John Marshall Professor of Judicial Studies Donald Lemons, as well as Virginia's Chief Justice and UR Law adjunct professor Leroy Hassell.

You can read a recent piece by Prof. Carl Tobias on the subject of federal judicial selection here.