FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2015, file photo, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. With Monday’s vote for the federal judge from Philadelphia, the Senate will have cleared its to-do list of nominees to the powerful appeals courts. Nine vacancies will remain, but President Barack Obama has yet to nominate individuals for those posts. "It’s glacial," says Schumer, one of the Democrats’ point men on judges. "It’s for the partisan purpose of hoping for a Republican president." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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