Federal Courts, Empty Benches: The Wednesday Vacancy Count 2/19/2014
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February 19, 2014
This week's Federal Courts, Empty Benches: The Wednesday Vacancy Count includes nominations, confirmations and vacancies from February 12, 2014 to February 18, 2014. Nominations, confirmations and vacancies occurring on February 19th will be reflected in the February 26th report.
The vacancy warning level remained at yellow this week after no new vacancies and no new confirmations. The vacancy percentage remained at 11.1%. There were no new nominations this week, which allowed the total number of nominees waiting for confirmation to remain at 63. The number of vacancies of Article III judges remained at 96 out of 865. A breakdown of the vacancies on each level can be found in the table below. For a more detailed look at the vacancies on the federal courts, see our Federal Court Vacancy Warning System.
Vacancies by court
| Court | # of Seats | Vacancies |
| Supreme Court | 9 | 0 percent or no vacancies |
| Appeals Courts | 179 | 8.9 percent or 16 vacancies |
| District Courts | 677 | 11.8 percent or 80 vacancies |
| All Judges | 865 | 11.1 percent or 96 vacancies |
Current judicial emergencies
This week we are offering an update of current judicial emergencies. There are currently 39 emergencies. A judicial emergency is defined as follows:
Circuit Court
- Any vacancy in a court of appeals where adjusted filings per panel are in excess of 700; OR
- Any vacancy in existence more than 18 months where adjusted filings are between 500 to 700 per panel.[1]
District Court
- Any vacancy where weighted filings are in excess of 600 per judgeship; OR
- Any vacancy in existence more than 18 months where weighted filings are between 430 to 600 per judgeship; OR
- Any court with more than one authorized judgeship and only one active judge.[1]
List of emergency districts and circuits
New vacancies
There were no new vacancies this week.
New confirmations
There were no new confirmations this week.
New nominations
There were no new nominations this week.
Weekly map
The weekly map is updated every week and posted here and on the vacancy warning level analysis page.
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See also
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