Senate Confirmation Hearing for Carlton Reeves is Thursday
On Monday the Senate Committee on the Judiciary scheduled Jackson attorney Carlton Reeves' confirmation hearing for Thursday of this week. In April President Obama nominated Reeves to be a United States District Judge for the Southern District of Mississippi. The hearing will be at 3:00 central time in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building in Washington.
The hearing is open to the public and can be viewed on the internet at this link: http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=4687.
Typically, the confirmation hearings for district court nominees are a mere formality. The hearing should not be confused with a full Senate vote, which probably will not take place for at least a couple of months. This is not unusual and in all likelihood, the Senate will approve Reeves' nomination by a wide margin.
Once the Senate approves Reeves' nomination, he will probably be sworn in as a judge within a matter of a few days. Reeves' formal investiture ceremony will likely be scheduled for a few months after he actually takes the oath and begins serving as a judge. My guess is that Reeves' investiture will be sometime after the new federal courthouse in Jackson opens this Fall.
