Stop playing politics with judicial nominations

Chief Justice John Roberts urged lawmakers from both parties to end their hypocritical bickering and approve the nomination of more federal judges. “Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of judicial nominations, depending on their changing political fortunes,” Roberts wrote in his annual State of the Judiciary report. “This has created acute difficulties for some judicial districts.” There are 94 vacancies in the federal judiciary, 44 of which have been designated “emergencies” by the Judicial Conference of the United States.