Number: RL34405
Title: Role of Home State Senators in the Selection of Lower Federal Court Judges
Authors: Denis Steven Rutkus, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: This report examines the role played by Senators in the selection of nominees to two kinds of lower court judgeships - to U.S. district court judgeships in the federal judicial districts lying geographically within the Senators' states and to U.S. court of appeals judgeships in the judicial circuits of which the Senators' states are a geographic part.
Pages: 65
Date: March 6, 2008