Not that it will make any difference, but... does anything we do here? The more sympathetic judges in the pool, the more likely to get better panels, including any en banc panels...

Maybe a few thousand emails to Graham (now chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee that holds the nominated judge hearings) might get him to bump up the Ninth Circuit nominees to a little higher on the priority list... like I say, "maybe"...

Here's the email url for him: https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=contact-form

My submission:

Senator Graham,

Please expedite the nomination confirmation process for the nominees to the Ninth Circuit. We need those judges in place for any possible further en banc proceedings in the case of Young v Hawaii. Currently, and for the past (at least) 18 YEARS, NOT ONE SINGLE "ordinary citizen" IN THE STATE OF HAWAII HAS BEEN GRANTED A CCW/CARRY LICENSE TO LAWFULLY BEAR ARMS OUTSIDE THEIR HOME FOR SELF-DEFENSE. ZERO!! That obviously makes a total mockery of the "bear" portion of the Second Amendment (And Hawaii's state constitution reads identical to the Second Amendment!). They don't care. They lie (the AG, etc.). They stall. They deny us our rights with impunity.

Please help us rectify this abridgment of our fundamental individual rights by allowing the Ninth Circuit nominees to be seated as soon as possible.

thank you,
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White House announces 51 judicial picks, including two for liberal 9th Circuit

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-announces-51-judicial-picks-including-two-for-liberal-ninth-circuit

The White House on Tuesday announced the re-nomination of 51 federal judicial nominees left over from the previous Congress, kickstarting the administration's effort to install more conservative judges after GOP activists worried that such appointments had stalled.

Nine of the 51 appointments are for spots on prestigious and influential federal appellate benches, including two on the mostly liberal San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which President Trump has often derided as "disgraceful" and politically biased.

“I truly appreciate the prompt attention President Trump and his White House team have shown to judicial nominations," Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said in a statement Wednesday. "I also appreciate the list of 51 impressive judicial nominations to fulfill the Senate’s constitutional role in advice and consent."

Graham vowed that the committee "will immediately begin working on these important nominations and trying to confirm as many as possible, as soon as possible.”

It has been reported that none of those nominees are for vacancies on the 9th circuit court of appeals because President Trump is playing "Let's Make a Deal" with Senator Feinstein.  As far as district court nominees go, Mitch McConnel said Senators get to decide who they will be.  We would be better off urging him not to approve any 9th circuit district court judge nominees and to hold off until we find out who his nominees for the 9th circuit court of appeals are going to be.  We already know that one of the two Trump nominated and who was confirmed was a disastrous choice (Bennett) and the word is still out on the other.