Jamelle Bouie braces for at least one more year of it:
[Y]ou have to consider that 2012 is a presidential election year, and House Republicans will have little appetite for compromise with a president who, as members of the GOP, they have a fair chance of beating in the general election. It should be said that the same goes for Senate Republicans and Obama’s attempts to fill the federal judiciary. At present there are 14 vacancies and 6 pending nominees on the circuit courts of appeal, along with 63 vacancies and 29 pending nominees on the district courts. I’d be surprised if those numbers budged over the course of next year; given the odds of a Republican president on January 21, 2013, Republicans would be silly to allow Democratic appointees on the federal bench.
The Dish 