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      "title": "\u201cState Representation\u201d in Appointments to Federal Circuit Courts",
      "summary": "When a seat becomes vacant on a federal court of appeals (the \u201ccircuit courts\u201d), the President has the opportunity to nominate a new judge for the Senate\u2019s consideration. Geography is often a factor in the decision, particularly whether the new judge will be nominated from the same state as the predecessor. One scholar refers to the custom of maintaining state continuity in seats within a court (e.g., a \u201cMissouri seat\u201d or an \u201cOhio seat\u201d) as \u201cstate representation.\u201d Federal statutes currently require that judges \u201creside\u201d in the circuit at the time of appointment and while in active service, and that each state within the circuit be represented among the court\u2019s judges, but do not require that particular seats be reserved for nominees from particular states.\nAs of this writing, President Obama has nominated 23 individuals to circuit court judgeships (excluding nominations made to the Federal Circuit and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia) during the 111th and 112th Congresses. Of the 16 confirmed, only one \u2014 that of Albert Diaz to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit \u2014 has resulted in a change in state representation. Of the seven whose nominations have not yet received final action, none would result in changes in state representation.\nThis report provides an overview and analysis of changes in state representation of circuit court judges confirmed since 1891, when Congress created the modern regional appeals courts. The data reveal that some seats are consistently filled by judges from the same state. Other seats are filled by judges from various states in that circuit. Overall, changes in state representation have occurred in 23% of confirmed nominations since 1891. Changes in state representation were more common prior to the 1960s than in recent decades. Over 40% of appointments made during the Kennedy Administration or earlier have resulted in changes to state representation in a circuit; 13% of circuit court appointments after the Kennedy Administration have made such a change. The frequency of those changes has also varied by circuit. \nThis report will be updated periodically to reflect changes in state representation or other notable developments.",
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