The Lower Federal Confirmation Database contains information on nominations to Article III district and circuit courts from the beginning of 1977 through the end of December 2004. The original database was created at the behest of the Constitution Project’s Courts Initiative (formerly Citizens for Independent Courts) by Wendy L. Martinek, Binghamton University. This is the third update to that original database. Based on the feedback provided by users of the original database, the database has been split into two files: one containing the data related to senatorial processing of nominations and one containing the data related to presidential processing of nominations. All documentation is provided in Adobe pdf format.

These data are available at the Center on Democratic Performance at Binghamton University. The Center on Democratic Performance is a research center of the Research Foundation of the State University of New York. Located at Binghamton University, the Center was established in 1999 and assists the academic and policy communities in understanding the function and performance of democratic political institutions. The mission of the Center is to evaluate the performance of democracies on multiple critical dimensions, including civil conflict and its management, human rights, voting rights, and political representation.

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