Upon Further Review

A vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court and the very public effort to nominate and confirm a new justice understandably diverts attention away from nominating and confirming judges to fill the many vacancies that exist on the lower federal courts. But now that the U.S. Senate has confirmed Sonia Sotomayor to replace David H. Souter on the Supreme Court, perhaps President Obama can once again begin to focus on the important task of nominating individuals to serve on the U.S. Courts of Appeals and the U.S. District Courts.

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