How many federal judiciary nominations has Pres George W Bush made to
date and how many of them have been approved?

Hi nautico,

Of George W. Bush's 229 judicial nominees, 219 were approved and only
10 blocked. This is the highest number of first-term nominations
approved in more than twenty years.


From the Washington Post:

Senate Democrats Want To Retain the Right to Block Judicial Nominees

By Helen Dewar and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, December 13, 2004; Page A01 

"...Republicans say that Democrats have abused the filibuster by
blocking 10 of the president's 229 judicial nominees in his first term
-- although confirmation of Bush nominees exceeds in most cases the
first-term experience of presidents dating to Ronald Reagan."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59877-2004Dec12.html

The above article is referenced on numerous websites. You can locate
these sites by searching "10 of the president's 229 judicial
nominees".


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I hope this is helpful.

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Rainbow

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This answer was wrong.  It was "derived" using the wrong numbers.

As of March 31, according to Pat Leahy's office, 204 nominees had been
confirmed, none yet in this congress (they were about to).
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200504/041105b.html

And according to the Wash Post story above, Bush had made 229 nominations.

Do the math.  229-204 = 25 failed nominations, about 10%.

When people say only 10 were blocked, they are talking ONLY about
nominees that made it out of committee and were scheduled for a vote. 
The others were blocked by holds by senators, or by rejection during
the time the democrats controlled the judiciary committee, or by the
democrats not scheduling a vote when they controlled the senate.