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Mr. President, Can't We Have Federal Judges?

The Obama administration is taking heat from Texas Democrats in Congress over its slowness in filling the state's vacant federal judgeships. Six are open, and a seventh will be next month — with no solution in sight. In his first 16 months in offfice, as Matt Largey of KUT News reports, the President has not nominated a single person to the federal bench in Texas.

By Matt Largey, KUT News
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The Obama administration is taking heat from Texas Democrats in Congress over its slowness in filling the state's vacant federal judgeships. Six are open, and a seventh will be next month — with no solution in sight. In his first 16 months in offfice, as Matt Largey of KUT News reports, the President has not nominated a single person to the federal bench in Texas.

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