Nomination To The Third Circuit
On May 25, 2000, President Clinton nominated Orlofsky to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to replace Judge Morton Ira Greenberg, who had announced plans to take senior status. "It has always been my dream since the day I started clerking for Judge (Mitchell H.) Cohen to be a federal judge," Orlofsky told the Philadelphia Inquirer in an article that was published on May 26, 2000. "And those things (judgeships) don't come along all the time." With Republicans in control of the Senate in the final year of Clinton's presidency, however, Orlofsky's nomination languished, never receiving a hearing before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. Orlofsky's nomination to the Third Circuit was expired at the end of Clinton's presidency, and President Bush chose not to renominate him.
In March 2003, President Bush nominated Michael Chertoff to the Third Circuit to which Orlofsky had been nominated. Chertoff was confirmed by the U.S. Senate later that year.
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