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Pass judicial nominees

As the U.S. Senate continues the lame-duck session, Senate leadership should schedule immediate confirmation votes on the 25 qualified judicial nominees pending on the Senate floor. Among these qualified nominees are Pennsylvania’s own Judges Susan Baxter and Marilyn Horan, who were nominated to fill district court seats that have been vacant more than three years.

Like Baxter and Horan, each of these nominees has been vetted and approved by their home-state senators and has earned the bipartisan support of the Senate Judiciary Committee.Millions of dollars have been spent vetting these nominees. Sen. Pat Toomey should now work with Senate leadership to schedule up-or-down votes on the pending nominees before the end of the 114th Congress.

It isn’t just Pennsylvania. More than one tenth of federal judgeships are vacant nationally, meaning that cases go unheard, issues unresolved and American people and businesses are left without the justice they deserve. These vacancies will remain open for far, far longer if other nominees are selected to fill them.

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