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</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/cawthorn-2656854718/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">https://www.alternet.org/2022/03/cawthorn-2656854718/</a></font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">salon78</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>A federal judge on Friday <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/04/politics/madison-cawthorn-north-carolina/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">struck down</a> a legal challenge against Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C., who a group of North Carolina voters argued was ineligible for re-election due to his apparent role in fomenting the January 6 Capitol riot.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The decision was handed down by Judge Richard Myers, a Trump-appointee in the eastern district of North Carolina, who rubber stamped Cawthorn's request for a preliminary injunction against the petitioners.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Myers is a member of two conservative advocacy groups, including the Federalist Society and the National Rifle Association. </span>He also serves as a faculty advisor for the Christian Legal Society, whose members <a href="https://www.christianlegalsociety.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">profess</a> to be "dedicated to serving Jesus Christ through the practice and study of law."</b></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The case originally stems from a lawsuit filed by a group of voters and advocacy groups back in January, alleging that Cawthorn should be disqualified from re-election over his conduct before and during the Capitol insurrection</font></div><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In the leadup to the insurrection, Cawthorn encouraged his followers to "lightly threaten" their representatives if they didn't validate Donald Trump's baseless claims of election fraud</b>. The conservative firebrand also made an appearance at the "Stop the Steal" rally, held just hours before the riot, where he blasted Republicans for "not fighting" hard enough. When the rioters had finally made their way inside the House chamber, Cawthorn appeared to be brimming with pride over Twitter, writing gleefully that "the battle is on the house floor."</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lawsuit, now all but dead, hangs its hat on the 14th Amendment's "disqualification clause," which prohibits any officeholders who "engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same" from holding a seat in government.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[twt]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">but in a countersuit filed in February, Cawthorn's lawyers argued that the Amnesty Act of 1872 – which allowed ex-Confederates to serve in office after the Civil War – effectively validates Cawthorn's re-election bid. In fact, that law only applied to ex-Confederates – not future insurrectionists, Slate's Mark Joseph Stern <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/02/madison-cawthorn-insurrection-amnesty.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">noted</a>.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Still, Myers sided with Cawthorn's abstruse logic, claiming that "we are at a moment in which interest in free and fair elections is at its peak." The judge added that he felt too responsible for protecting "the soapbox … the ballot box … and the jury box … And when those fail, that's when people proceed to the ammunition box."</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Rob Fein, the legal director of Free Speech For People, which is representing the voters who filed the suit against Cawthorn, has called for the decision to be appealed.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">"This ruling, by Chief Judge Richard Myers II, a Trump appointee, is wrong on the law and would block the State Board of Elections from determining whether Cawthorn is ineligible under the Insurrectionist Disqualification Clause of the US Constitution," he <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/596911-federal-judge-halts-legal-challenge-to-madison-cawthorns-candidacy?rl=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="blank" class="rm-stats-tracked" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; opacity: 1; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s, background 0.25s ease 0s, opacity 0.25s ease 0s;">said</a> in a statement. "The ruling must be reversed on appeal, and the right of voters to bring this challenge to Cawthorn's eligibility must be preserved.</font></p></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style=""><div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr" style="direction: ltr;"><div class="mw-parser-output" style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Christian Legal Society</b> (<b>CLS</b>) is a non-profit, non-denominational organization of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christians" title="Christians" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Christian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">lawyers</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge" title="Judge" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">judges</a>, law professors, and law students and friends whose members profess to follow the "commandment of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Jesus</a>" to "seek <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice" title="Justice" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">justice</a> with the love of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God" title="God" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">God</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup> through four distinct and complimentary ministries:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>1. Attorney Ministries</b>: the fellowship and network of Christian attorneys who are members of CLS and gather in volunteer-run attorney chapters across the country.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b style="">2. Law Student Ministries</b>: the ministry and network of Christian fellowships on law school campuses.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>3. Center for Law & Religious Freedom</b>: the advocacy arm of the Christian Legal Society, working to protect and defend religious freedom and the sanctity of human life through submitting <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amicus_curiae" title="Amicus curiae" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">amicus curiae</a> legal briefs in cases, representing parties, and legislative work.
</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>4. Christian Legal Aid</b>: the ministry of CLS to those below the poverty line, through a network of independent Christian Legal Aid clinics across the country.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLS publishes a bi-annual magazine called <i>The Christian Lawyer</i>, a scholarly journal called The Journal of Christian Legal Thought, CLS Bible Studies, and CLS E-Devotionals. Its former publications include the Quarterly, The Defender, and the Religious Freedom Reporter (all of which can be obtained at HeinOnline <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://home.heinonline.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">[2]</a>).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLS receives no government support for any of its programs or ministries and is supported by dues, donations and gifts.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Christian Legal Society holds an annual convention in the United States and various regional conferences.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup></font></p><div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading" style="background-color: rgb(248, 249, 250); border: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); padding: 7px; display: table;"><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#History" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;" /><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#Membership" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Membership</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#Goals" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Goals</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#Important_legal_cases" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Important legal cases</span></font></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#University_of_Florida(2007)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">University of Florida (2007)</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#University_of_California,Hastings_College_of_the_Law(2010)" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">University of California, Hastings College of the Law (2010)</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#References" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#External_links" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The organization, which is based in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States" title="United States" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">United States</a>, was founded in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago,Illinois" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago, Illinois" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Chicago, Illinois</a> in 1961 by four lawyers (Paul Bernard, Gerrit P. Groen, Henry Luke Brinks, and Elmer Johnson) who had met at a convention of the<b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bar_Association" title="American Bar Association" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">American Bar Association</a> in 1959 to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer" title="Prayer" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">pray</a> together.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since its founding, it has grown to include over 50 attorney chapters, 120 law school chapters, networking or starting over 60 Christian legal aid clinics serving 130 communities, through four unincorporated ministry divisions: Attorney Ministries, Law Student Ministries, the Center for Law & Religious Freedom, and Christian Legal Aid.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the 80s and 90s, CLS formed and managed a Christian Conciliation ministry, which later became Peacemaker Ministries and the Institute for Christian Conciliation.</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Membership">Membership</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CLS membership includes attorneys, judges, law students, and others who profess their commitment to the CLS Statement of Faith. They are organized in more than 1100 cities into attorney chapters, law student chapters, and fellowships throughout the United States.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Membership in the Christian Legal Society is open to all who believe in and sign CLS’ Statement of Faith.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Goals">Goals</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since its founding in 1961, CLS’ nine organizational objectives, as set forth in its amended not-for-profit articles of incorporation, have been:<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To proclaim Jesus as Lord through all that we do in the field of law and other disciplines;</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To provide a means of society, fellowship and nurture among Christian lawyers;</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To encourage Christian lawyers to view law as ministry;</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To clarify and promote the concept of the Christian lawyer and to help Christian lawyers integrate their faith with their professional lives;</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>To mobilize, at the national and local levels, the resources needed to promote justice, religious liberty, the inalienable right to human life, and biblical conflict reconciliation</b></font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To encourage, disciple and aid Christian students in preparing for the legal profession;</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To provide a forum for the discussion of problems and opportunities relating to Christianity and the law;</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To cooperate with bar associations and other organizations in asserting and maintaining high standards of legal ethics; and,</font></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To encourage lawyers to<b> furnish legal services to the poor and needy</b>, and grant special consideration to the legal needs of churches and other charitable organizations.</font></li></ul><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="Important_legal_cases">Important legal cases</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="University_of_Florida.282007.29" /><span class="mw-headline" id="University_of_Florida(2007)">University of Florida (2007)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On March 16, 2007, the Upsilon Chapter at the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Florida" title="University of Florida" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">University of Florida</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> was officially recognized by the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Upsilon_Chi" title="Beta Upsilon Chi" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Beta Upsilon Chi</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (BYX) national board.</span><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> The University of Florida, however, refused to recognize BYX.</span><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> The university had refused to recognize the chapter as a registered student organization because the fraternity accepts only men and would not recognize the chapter as a social fraternity because the fraternity accepts only Christians</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-8" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 10, 2007, th</span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">e <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_Defense_Fund" class="mw-redirect" title="Alliance Defense Fund" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Alliance Defense Fund</a> Center for Academic Freedom and the Christian Legal Society </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">filed suit (</span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Beta Upsilon Chi Upsilon Chapter v. Machen, 586 F.3d 908, 911-912 (11th Cir. 2009)</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) on behalf of BYX against various officials from the University of Florida for various constitutional violations including unlawful discrimination. During the course of the proceedings, the 11th </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_circuit_court" title="United States circuit court" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Circuit Court</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on appeal from the Northern District of Florida, Leon County) ordered that the chapter be recognized pending the disposition of the appeal. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The case was ultimately dismissed as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mootness" title="Mootness" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">moot</a> when the university amended its policies to permit the registration of the chapter</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-10" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-11" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 1.6;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span id="University_of_California.2C_Hastings_College_of_the_Law.282010.29" /><span class="mw-headline" id="University_of_California,Hastings_College_of_the_Law(2010)">University of California, Hastings College of the Law (2010)</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; font-weight: normal; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Their case </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society_v.Martinez" title="Christian Legal Society v. Martinez" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Christian Legal Society v. Martinez</b></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> reached the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">Supreme Court of the United States</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> in 2010.</span><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-12" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> It was argued on April 19, 2010 and decided June 28, 2010 <b>against the CLS by a vote of </b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b>5-4</b>. The court upheld, against a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">First Amendment</a> challenge, the policy of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,Hastings_College_of_the_Law" title="University of California, Hastings College of the Law" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">University of California, Hastings College of the Law</a> governing official recognition of student groups, which required the groups to accept all students regardless of their status or beliefs in order to obtain recognition.</span><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-13" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.3;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; margin-right: 0px;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span></span></font></h2><div class="reflist" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-bottom: 0.5em; list-style-type: decimal;"><div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns" style="column-width: 30em; margin-top: 0.3em;"><ol class="references" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 3.2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-parent 0 list-item 0; list-style-type: inherit;"><li id="cite_note-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-1" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text">Cf. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.christianlegalsociety.org/about/staff" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">CLS Staff Roster</a> - CLS website</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-2" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text">Cf. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Luke</a> 11:42; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Matthew</a> 23:23.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-3" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.christianlegalsociety.org/events" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">"CLS Events - Christian Legal Society - Christian Legal Society"</a>. <i>www.clsnet.org</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;">2020-05-05</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=www.clsnet.org&rft.atitle=CLS+Events+-+Christian+Legal+Society+-+Christian+Legal+Society&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.christianlegalsociety.org%2Fevents&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AChristian+Legal+Society" class="Z3988" /></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-4" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.christianlegalsociety.org/about/statement-faith" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px; overflow-wrap: break-word;">https://www.christianlegalsociety.org/about/statement-faith</a></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-5" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text">CLS, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.christianlegalsociety.org/about" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">"Vision of CLS"</a> - CLS website</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-6" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text">University of Florida Chapter. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.betaupsilonchi.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">Upsilon Chapter</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071008100952/http://www.betaupsilonchi.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=55&Itemid=66" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">Archived</a> October 8, 2007, at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">Wayback Machine</a>" Retrieved on November 4, 2007.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-7" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><i>The Alligator</i>. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20110519051226/http://www.alligator.org/pt2/070717lawsuit.php" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">Christian fraternity suing UF, seeking official recognition.</a>" Retrieved on June 24, 2008.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-8" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text">The Gainesville Sun. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gainesville.com/article/20070711/LOCAL/707110335/-1/news" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">All-male Christian fraternity sues UF.</a>" Retrieved on November 4, 2007.</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-9" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091028/ARTICLES/910281003/1002?Title=Around-the-Region-Oct-28" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">[1]</a></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-10" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.morelaw.com/verdicts/case.asp?n=08-13332&s=FL&d=41879" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;"><i>Beta Upsilon Chi Upsilon Chapter at the University of Florida v. J. Bernard Machen, in his official capacity as President of the University of Florida</i></a>, Case Number: 08-13332, United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit on appeal from the Northern District of Florida (Leon County), 10-27-2009</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-11" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text">Zahav, Zahara, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.alligator.org/news/campus/article_d1b06f97-dc01-54d4-b7f9-ae4010f23fe8.html" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">"Court orders UF to recognize Christian fraternity"</a>, <i>The Alligator</i>, July 31, 2008</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-12" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text">Schmidt, Peter, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://chronicle.com/article/Constitutional-Rights-Clash/64855/" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">"Constitutional Rights Clash in Battle of Law School and Christian Group"</a>, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicle_of_Higher_Education" title="The Chronicle of Higher Education" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">The Chronicle of Higher Education</a></i>, March 28, 2010</span></font></li><li id="cite_note-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-13" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text">B. Egelko <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/20/BAN41D13V0.DTL" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/common/images/external-link-ltr-icon.svg?48e54") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 13px;">Hastings defends anti-bias policy at high court</a></span></font></li><li id="cite_note-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em; break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Legal_Society#cite_ref-14" aria-label="Jump up" title="Jump up" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">^{</a></b></span> }<span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170201100551/https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/08-1371.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Icon_pdf_file.png") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 18px;">"Oral argument transcript in CLS v. Martinez"</a> <span class="cs1-format" style="">(PDF)</span>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/08-1371.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/Icon_pdf_file.png") right center no-repeat; padding-right: 18px;">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format" style="">(PDF)</span> on 2017-02-01<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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</font></div><div style=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">richard Myers II</span> is the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Chief_judge" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief judge" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">chief judge</a> of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_North_Carolina" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina</a>. On September 9, 2019, President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a> (R) nominated Myers to a seat on this court. The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Senate" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Senate</a> confirmed Myers on December 5, 2019, by a vote of 68-21</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span id="cite_ref-congress_1-0" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-congress-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> He received commission on December 10, 2019. He became chief judge of the court in 2021.</span><span id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> To see a full list of judges appointed by </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_judges_nominated_by_Donald_Trump" title="Federal judges nominated by Donald Trump" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">click here</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_North_Carolina" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina</a> is one of 94 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_District_Court" title="United States District Court" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. District Courts</a>. They are the general <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Trial_court" title="Trial court" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">trial courts</a> of the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_federal_courts" title="United States federal courts" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States federal courts</a>. To learn more about the Eastern District of North Carolina, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#About_the_court" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">click here</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myers was the Henry Brandis <b>Distinguished Professor of Law</b> and Director of Trial Advocacy at the<b> University of North Carolina School of Law</b> from 2014 to 2019.</font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Judicial_nominations_and_appointments" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judicial nominations and appointments</font></span></h2><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 5px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_North_Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina</font></span></h3><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">See also: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_judges_nominated_by_Donald_Trump" title="Federal judges nominated by Donald Trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Federal judges nominated by Donald Trump</a></font></span></dd></dl></dd></dl><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On September 9, 2019, President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a> (R) nominated Myers to a seat on the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_North_Carolina" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina</a>. The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Senate" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Senate</a> confirmed Myers on December 5, 2019, by a vote of 68-21.<span id="cite_ref-congress_1-1" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-congress-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></span> To read more about the federal nominations process, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#The_federal_nomination_process" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">click here</a>.</font></p><table class="infobox" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 0.2em; float: right; clear: right; width: 194.333px; max-width: 100%;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><th style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(45, 66, 153); padding-top: 3px !important; padding-bottom: 3px !important;"><big style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></big><center style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><big style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nomination Tracker</span></font></big></font></font></font></center><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><big style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></font></th></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><div class="center" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 184.583px; text-align: center;"><div class="floatnone" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina</a></font></small></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><th style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(45, 66, 153); padding-top: 3px !important; padding-bottom: 3px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Progress</font></th></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><small style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Confirmed 87 days after nomination.</font></span></small></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/File:Yes_check.svg" class="image" title="Completed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Approved" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/18px-Yes_check.svg.png" width="18" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" /></a>Nominated: September 9, 2019</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/File:Yes_check.svg" class="image" title="Completed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Approved" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/18px-Yes_check.svg.png" width="18" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" /></a><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/American_Bar_Association" title="American Bar Association" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">ABA</a> Rating: <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Substantial majority well qualified / Minority qualified</span></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Questionnaire: <a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Richard%20Myers%20SJQ%20-%20PUBLIC.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii=") right center no-repeat !important; padding-right: 13px !important;" xmlns:data="data">Questionnaire</a></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/File:Yes_check.svg" class="image" title="Completed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Approved" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/18px-Yes_check.svg.png" width="18" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" /></a>Hearing: September 11, 2019</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;" /></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="simple-tooltip simple-tooltip-inline tooltipstered" data-simple-tooltip=""><p>Follow-up questions may be prepared and submitted to nominees for written replies to expand on their testimony. Nominees may be asked to expand on answers given at the hearing or to discuss new matters raised in the course of the hearing. Often the chair will announce that the hearing record will be left open for a period of time so that additional information can be entered into the formal hearing record.

</p>" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-bottom: 1px dotted rgb(170, 170, 170);">QFRs</span>: <a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/myers-responses-to-questions-for-the-record" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii=") right center no-repeat !important; padding-right: 13px !important;" xmlns:data="data">QFRs</a> <small style="box-sizing: border-box;">(Hover over QFRs to read more)</small></font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;" /></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/File:Yes_check.svg" class="image" title="Completed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Approved" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/18px-Yes_check.svg.png" width="18" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" /></a>Reported: October 31, 2019 </font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/File:Yes_check.svg" class="image" title="Completed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Approved" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/18px-Yes_check.svg.png" width="18" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" /></a>Confirmed: December 5, 2019</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/File:Yes_check.svg" class="image" title="Completed" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="Approved" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/18px-Yes_check.svg.png" width="18" height="18" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" /></a>Vote: 68-21</font></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;" /></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;" /></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Confirmation_vote" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Confirmation vote</font></span></h4><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The U.S. Senate confirmed Myers on December 5, 2019, on a vote of 68-21.<span id="cite_ref-congress_1-2" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-congress-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></span> To see a full breakdown of the vote on the official U.S. Senate website</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><h5 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Change_in_Senate_rules" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">change in Senate rules</font></span></h5><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><dl style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">See also:</font></span></dd><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Filibuster_and_reconciliation_in_the_United_States_Congress" title="Filibuster and reconciliation in the United States Congress" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Filibuster and reconciliation in the United States Congress</font></a></span></dd><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Federal_judges_nominated_by_Donald_Trump#Noteworthy_events" title="Federal judges nominated by Donald Trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal judges nominated by Donald Trump</font></a></span></dd><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_federal_courts" title="United States federal courts" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">United States federal courts</font></a></span></dd></dl></dd></dl><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Myers was confirmed to a U.S. District Court under a new precedent the Senate established.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">On April 3, 2019, the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/U.S.Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Senate" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. Senate</a> voted 51-48 in favor of a change to chamber precedent lowering the maximum time allowed for debate on executive nominees to posts below the Cabinet level and on nominees to <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_District_Court" title="United States District Court" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">district court</a> judgeships from 30 hours after invoking <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Cloture" title="Cloture" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">cloture</a> to two</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><span id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-3" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The change was passed under a procedure, often referred to as the<b> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">nuclear option</span>,</b> that requires 51 votes rather than 60.<span id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-4" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">It was the third use of the <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">nuclear option</span> in Senate history</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In 2013, it was used to eliminate the 60-vote threshold to confirm presidential nominees, except those to the </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Supreme Court</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">. In 2017, it was used to eliminate the 60-vote threshold required to confirm Supreme Court nominees.</span><span id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-5" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> For more, see </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Filibuster_and_reconciliation_in_the_United_States_Congress#The_nuclear_option" title="Filibuster and reconciliation in the United States Congress" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">Filibuster and reconciliation in the United States Congress</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Senate_Judiciary_Committee" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate Judiciary Committee</font></span></h4><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Senate_Judiciary_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Judiciary Committee" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Senate Judiciary Committee</a> held hearings on Myers' nomination on September 11, 2019.<span id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-6" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></span> The committee voted 16-6 on October 31 to advance his nomination to the full Senate.<span id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-7" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></span></font></p><h4 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Nomination" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nomination</font></span></h4><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On August 14, 2019, President <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald Trump</a> (R) announced his intent to nominate Myers to a seat on the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_North_Carolina" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina</a>.<span id="cite_ref-nom_8-0" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-nom-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a></span> The U.S. Senate officially received the nomination on September 9.<span id="cite_ref-congress_1-3" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-congress-1" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myers was nominated to succeed Judge <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Malcolm_Howard" title="Malcolm Howard" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Malcolm Howard</a>, who assumed <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Senior_status" class="mw-redirect" title="Senior status" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">senior status</a> on December 31, 2005.<span id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-9" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a></span> When Myers was nominated, the seat was the longest-running vacancy in the federal judiciary.<span id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-10" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/American_Bar_Association" title="American Bar Association" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">American Bar Association</a> rated Myers <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">well qualified</i> by a substantial majority and <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">qualified</i> by a minority.</span><span id="cite_ref-11" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-11" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> To read more about ABA ratings, </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bar_association_ratings" title="Bar association ratings" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">click here</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life_and_education" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Early life and education</font></span></h2><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Myers was born in 1967 in Kingston, Jamaica. He earned his B.A., <i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Summa_cum_laude" title="Summa cum laude" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">summa cum laude</a></i>, in 1989 and his M.A. in 1994 from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He and earned his <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Juris_Doctor" title="Juris Doctor" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">J.D.</a>,<b> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Magna_cum_laude" title="Magna cum laude" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">magna cum laude</a></span>,</b> from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1998. Myers was the articles editor on the <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">North Carolina Law Review</i>.<span id="cite_ref-nom_8-1" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-nom-8" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a></span><span id="cite_ref-que_12-0" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-que-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></span></font></p><h2 style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Professional_career" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Professional career</font></span></h2><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2019-present:</span> Judge, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Eastern_District_of_North_Carolina" class="mw-redirect" title="Eastern District of North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina</a></font><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2021-present:</span> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Chief_judge" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief judge" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Chief judge</a></font></li></ul></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2004-2019:</span> University of North Carolina School of Law</font><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2014-2019:</span> Henry Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law and director of Trial Advocacy</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2013-2014:</span> Associate dean and Henry Brandis Distinguished Professor of Law</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2010-2013:</span> Associate dean and George R. Ward term research associate professor</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2004-2010:</span> Assistant professor</font></li></ul></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2001-2004:</span> Assistant United States attorney, Eastern District of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/North_Carolina" title="North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">North Carolina</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">2001:</span> Assistant U.S. attorney, Central District of <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/California" title="California" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">California</a></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1999-2001:</span> Associate, O'Melveny & Myers LLP</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">1998-1999:</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Law clerk to Judge <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/David_Sentelle" title="David Sentelle" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">David Sentelle</a>,</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit</a><span id="cite_ref-que_12-1" class="reference" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-que-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></span></font></li></ul><h2 style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Associations" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Associations</font></span></h2><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">American Bar Association</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Carolina </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Public Interest Law Organization</span></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Christian Legal Society</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Durham Pistol and Rifle Club</font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/The_Federalist_Society" title="The Federalist Society" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Federalist Society</font></a></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Los Angeles County Bar </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Association</span></font></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">National Rifle Association</font></a></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">North Carolina Bar Association<span id="cite_ref-que_12-2" class="reference" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; line-height: 0; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II#cite_note-que-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></span></font></li></ul><h2 style="background-color: rgb(244, 244, 244); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 10px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(50, 56, 61); padding: 10px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="About_the_court" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">About the court</font></span></h2><table class="infobox" style="background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); border-spacing: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 0.2em; float: right; clear: right; width: 139.917px; max-width: 100%; text-align: center;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><th style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(45, 66, 153); padding-top: 3px !important; padding-bottom: 3px !important;"><big style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_North_Carolina" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Eastern District of North Carolina</span></a></span><big style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></big></th></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_4th_Circuit" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Fourth Circuit</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/File:NC-ED.jpg" class="image" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img alt="NC-ED.jpg" src="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/thumb/a/a2/NC-ED.jpg/135px-NC-ED.jpg" decoding="async" width="135" height="135" srcset="https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/a/a2/NC-ED.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="150" data-file-height="150" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none; vertical-align: middle; max-width: 100%; height: auto !important;" /></font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><th style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(45, 66, 153); padding-top: 3px !important; padding-bottom: 3px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judgeships</font></th></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><small style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Posts:</span> 4</font></small></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><small style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Judges:</span> 4</font></small></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><small style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Vacancies:</span> 0</font></small></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><th style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(45, 66, 153); padding-top: 3px !important; padding-bottom: 3px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judges</font></th></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><small style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Chief:</span> <a class="mw-selflink selflink" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent;">Richard Myers II</a></font></small></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: top;"><small style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Active judges:</span> <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Terrence_Boyle" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Terrence Boyle</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/James_Dever(North_Carolina)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">James Dever</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Louise_Flanagan" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Louise Flanagan</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richard_Myers_II" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Myers II</a><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></small><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><small style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Senior judges:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Earl_Britt" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Earl Britt</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Malcolm_Howard" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Malcolm Howard</a></font></small></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina</span> is one of 94 <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_district_court" class="mw-redirect" title="United States district court" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States district courts</a>. When decisions of the court are appealed, they are appealed to the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_Fourth_Circuit" title="United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit</a> based in downtown <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Richmond,Virginia" title="Richmond, Virginia" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Richmond, Virginia</a>, at the Lewis F. Powell Federal Courthouse.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Eastern District of North Carolina has <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Original_jurisdiction" title="Original jurisdiction" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">original jurisdiction</a> over cases filed within its jurisdiction. These cases can include civil and criminal matters that fall under federal law.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It has three staffed offices and holds court in six cities: <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Elizabeth_City,North_Carolina" title="Elizabeth City, North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Elizabeth City</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Fayetteville,North_Carolina" title="Fayetteville, North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Fayetteville</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greenville,North_Carolina" title="Greenville, North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Greenville</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/New_Bern,North_Carolina" title="New Bern, North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">New Bern</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Raleigh,North_Carolina" title="Raleigh, North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Raleigh</a>, and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wilmington,North_Carolina" title="Wilmington, North Carolina" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Wilmington</a>. Its main office is in Raleigh.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are four court divisions, each covering the following counties:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Eastern Division</span>, covering <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Beaufort_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Beaufort County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Beaufort</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Carteret_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Carteret County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Carteret</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Craven_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Craven County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Craven</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Edgecombe_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Edgecombe County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Edgecombe</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Greene_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Greene County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Greene</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Halifax_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Halifax County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Halifax</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Hyde_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Hyde County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Hyde</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Jones_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Jones County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Jones</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Lenoir_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Lenoir County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Lenoir</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Martin_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Martin County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Martin</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Pamlico_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Pamlico County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Pamlico</a>, and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Pitt_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Pitt County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Pitt</a> counties.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Northern Division</span>, covering <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bertie_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Bertie County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Bertie</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Camden_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Camden County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Camden</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Chowan_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Chowan County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Chowan</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Currituck_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Currituck County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Currituck</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Dare_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Dare County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Dare</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Gates_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Gates County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Gates</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Hertford_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Hertford County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Hertford</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Northampton_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Northampton County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Northampton</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Pasquotank_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Pasquotank County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Pasquotank</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Perquimans_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Perquimans County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Perquimans</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Tyrrell_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Tyrrell County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Tyrrell</a>, and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Washington_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Washington County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Washington</a> counties.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Southern Division</span>, covering <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Bladen_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Bladen County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Bladen</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Brunswick_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Brunswick County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Brunswick</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Columbus_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Columbus County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Columbus</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Duplin_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Duplin County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Duplin</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/New_Hanover_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="New Hanover County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">New Hanover</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Onslow_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Onslow County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Onslow</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Pender_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Pender County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Pender</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Robeson_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Robeson County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Robeson</a>, and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Sampson_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Sampson County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Sampson</a> counties.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Western Division</span>, covering <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Cumberland_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Cumberland County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Cumberland</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Franklin_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Franklin County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Franklin</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Granville_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Granville County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Granville</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Harnett_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Harnett County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Harnett</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Johnston_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Johnston County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Johnston</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Nash_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Nash County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Nash</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Vance_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Vance County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Vance</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wake_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Wake County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Wake</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wayne_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Wayne County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Wayne</a>, <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Warren_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Warren County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Warren</a>, and <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Wilson_County,North_Carolina(Judicial)" title="Wilson County, North Carolina (Judicial)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Wilson</a> counties.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">To read opinions published by this court, click <a target="blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="external text" href="https://ecf.nced.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/ShowIndex.pl" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaavkleqvr4xn3pgqkamqhduxfqtu7kttkpd5ra8ainfartq2irxfwt2qedafttj2fspioe1ecoleuowwjgzyab="AAAAVklEQVR4Xn3PgQkAMQhDUXfqTu7kTtkpd5RA8AInfArtQ2iRXFWT2QedAfttj2FsPIOE1eCOlEuoWWjgzYaB" ikegorxxhqb="IkeGOrxXhqB" ua9bfcm0lazuh="uA9Bfcm0lAZuh" yiead="YIeAD" caqsz4kcmuaaaaasuvork5cyii=") right center no-repeat !important; padding-right: 13px !important;" xmlns:data="data">here</a>.</font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.1; margin-top: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 5px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="The_federal_nomination_process" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The federal nomination process</font></span></h3><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Federal judges are nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate. There are multiple steps to the process:</font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The president nominates an individual for a judicial seat.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The nominee fills out a questionnaire and is reviewed by the <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Senate_Judiciary_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Senate Judiciary Committee" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">Senate Judiciary Committee</a>.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing with the nominee, questioning them about things like their judicial philosophy, past rulings or opinions, etc.</font></li></ul><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As part of this process, the committee sends a <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Blue_slip(federal_judicial_nominations)" title="Blue slip (federal judicial nominations)" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;">blue slip</a> to senators from the home state in which the judicial nomination was received, allowing them to express their approval or disapproval of the nominee.</font></li></ul></dd></dl><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the hearing, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote to approve or return the nominee.</font></li></ul><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If approved, the nominee is voted on by the full Senate.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the Committee votes to return the nominee to the president, the president has the opportunity to re-nominate the individual.</font></li></ul></dd></dl><ul style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Senate holds a vote on the candidate.</font></li></ul><dl style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><dd style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.42857;"><ul style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.3em 0px 0.6em 1.6em;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the Senate confirms the nomination, the nominee receives a commission to serve a lifelong position as a federal judge.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the Senate does not confirm the nomination, that nominee does not become a judge.</font></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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