A source tells me that the United States Senate has approved a new Tax Court Judge.  It looks like STJ Adam B. (“Sport”) Landy has gotten the nod, and is the first STJ to move to the Big Bench since I started this blog twelve (count ’em, twelve) years ago.

I wonder, readers: should I change “Sport” to “Mustang”? That was the old US Navy term for an officer who started out as an enlisted personnel. I’ll take a vote.

Edited to add, 7/29/24: Of course, on Friday last, Judge Kashi Way, an 18-year veteran counsel to the Joint Committee on Taxation, got the Senatorial nod. Four (count ’em, four) more picks on the pattern. More judges, fewer delays, more blogfodder…what could be bad?