Federal Courts, Empty Benches: The Wednesday Vacancy Count 7/16/2014
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July 16, 2014
This week's Federal Courts, Empty Benches: The Wednesday Vacancy Count includes nominations, confirmations and vacancies from July 9, 2014, to July 15, 2014. Nominations, confirmations and vacancies occurring on July 16th will be reflected in the July 23rd report.
There were no changes in the federal judiciary this week. Small changes have been made to the vacancy count to now include the Court of International Trade in the vacancies by court table.
The vacancy warning level remained at blue this week after no new vacancies and no new confirmations. The vacancy percentage remained at 7.0%. There were no new nominations this week, which allowed the total number of nominees waiting for confirmation to remain at 29. The number of vacancies of Article III judges remained at 61 out of 874. 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% or no vacancies |
| Appeals Courts | 179 | 5.6% or 10 vacancies |
| District Courts | 677 | 7.4% or 50 vacancies |
| International Trade | 9 | 11.1% or 1 vacancy |
| All Judges | 874 | 7.0% or 61 vacancies |
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 Federal Court Vacancy Warning System analysis page.
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