In June 2018, Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement, creating a second vacancy on the Supreme Court.
There are good reasons for … Before his appointment to the Court of Appeals, Mr Thapar served on the District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.Donald Trump has interviewed prominent Indian-American judge Amul Thapar and three other legal luminaries shortlisted by the US President as potential nominees to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy................................. Advertisement ................................Amul Thapar, an Indian-American legal luminary and US President Donald Trump's first nominee to a powerful appeals court, has been confirmed by the US Senate to the key judicial position.Indian-American judge Amul Thapar has not made it to the shortlist of three candidates from among which US President Donald Trump is likely to nominate his pick for the US Supreme Court justice, a media report said today.Amul Thapar, an Indian-American jurist, may be nominated as a Supreme Court judge by US President-Elect Donald Trump.Amul Thapar, an Indian-American legal luminary, is among the 25 shortlisted judges US President Donald Trump could nominate to replace Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, according to American media reports.Justice Anthony Kennedy's announcement Wednesday that he is retiring from the U.S. Supreme Court effective July 31 has opened the floodgates of speculation on who President Donald Trump will choose as his replacement.An Indian-American judge, along with four other attorneys, has been named for National Asia Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Daniel K. Inouye Trailblazer Award.
President Donald Trump entered office with a significant number of judicial vacancies, including a Supreme Court vacancy due to the death of Antonin Scalia in February 2016.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump had released two lists of potential nominees to the Supreme Court. During the first eight months of his presidency, he nominated approximately 50 judges, a significantly higher number than any other recent president had made by that point in his presidency. After taking office, he nominated Neil Gorsuch to succeed Scalia, and Gorsuch was confirmed in April 2017. The plaintiffs appealed the case, sending it to the Sixth Circuit, where Circuit Judge Amul Thapar agreed with the lower court. Amul Roger Thapar (born April 29, 1969) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.He is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky and former United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
President Barack Obama nominated over four hundred individuals for federal judgeships during his presidency. Hodous, Trump Sixth Circuit judge Amul Thapar, over a dissent, upheld a lower court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit against a police officer who violently arrested a man on the front porch of his home even though he had done nothing wrong, and he and his mother had assured the officers that he lived there. Credit: Diego M. Radzinschi / ALM . By June 24, 2020, 200 of his Article III nominees had been confirmed.U.S. Thapar was the first South Asian federal judge in American history. Judge Amul Roger Thapar has broken many barriers in his life. Amul Thapar is a conservative judge with close ties to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Of these nominations, Congress confirmed 329 judgeships, 173 during the 111th & 112th Congresses and 156 during the 113th and 114th Congresses.With the advice and consent of the United States Senate, the president of the United States appoints the members of the Supreme Court of the United States, which is the highest court of the federal judiciary of the United States. In November 2017, five more names were added to the previous lists of potential nominees. Here's what you need to know about his political views and case history. In early July 2018, Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh as his replacement; Kavanaugh was confirmed on October 6, 2018.