Aim higher, reach farther.  Open Judgeships Show D.C.
Dysfunction  Jill Pryor of Georgia and Rosemary Marquez of
Arizona aren't exactly household names, but they share a
distinction with national importance: Both have been waiting
exactly 689 days for the Senate to act on their nominations to
become federal judges.  Yet they aren't even the most extreme
examples of Washington's inability to perform one of its most
basic functions, filling the federal judiciary across the land.
All told, 85 federal judgeships sit vacant, meaning some 10% of
the federal judiciary is empty—and this at a...  Popular on WSJ
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