The confirmations of Andrew Schopler and James E Simmons Jr. means that almost half of the authorized judges on the busy district court have been put there by President Biden.
The U.S. Senate approved two more judges for San Diego’s federal bench this week, confirmations that mean President Joe Biden has appointed nearly half of the authorized judicial seats on the court, with another nomination waiting in the wings.
Then on Wednesday the Senate confirmed by a 51-43 vote San Diego Superior Court Judge James E . Simmons, Jr. He has been a state court judge since 2017 and since April has been the supervising judge for the Vista branch of the Superior Court. Before that he was a prosecutor in the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office and the San Diego City Attorney’s Office.Simmons will take the seat that became vacant in March 2021 when U.S. District Judge Anthony J. Battaglia went on senior status.
Similarly, he said the vote to confirm Simmons was no surprise since he, like Schopler, did not get much opposition in his hearing before the Judiciary Committee. Tobias said both confirmations are important because the vacancies were deemed “emergencies” by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, the administrative arm of the federal courts, based on case filings and judicial workloads in the Southern District of California, which covers both San Diego and Imperial counties.
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