JUDICIAL WATCH, INC. v. THE UNITED STATES SENATE, et. al.
Judicial Watch, Inc. has suffered and is continuing to suffer significant, irreparable harm by reason of the unconstitutional application of Senate Rule XXII and Senate Rule V to the Estrada and Owen nominations. But for the efforts of a minority of U.S. senators to use Senate Rules XXII and V to prevent the confirmation of former Assistant Solicitor General Estrada and Justice Owen to federal judgeships, these well-qualified judicial nominees would have been confirmed, and will be confirmed, for appointments to the D.C. Circuit and Fifth Circuit, respectively, and their confirmations would have lessened, and will lessen, the high vacancy rates and resulting significant and prejudicial delays experienced by Judicial Watch, Inc. in litigating in the federal courts.
