uncontroversial. The United States Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted in favor of Marcus's nomination on November 6, 1997, and the full Senate unanimously confirmed him on November 7, 1997. "I'm deeply honored," Marcus told the Miami Herald in a brief interview in an article that appeared on November 8, 1997. He received his commission on November 12, 1997. He assumed senior status on December 5, 2019. Judge Marcus is a member of the Judicial Conference Committee on Federal-State Jurisdiction and has been the committee's chairman since 1992. Notable cases In 2004, Marcus dissented when the court refused to rehear a case where the initial panel upheld a law banning LGBTQ couples from adopting children. The vote was 6–6, which warranted a denial of rehearing en banc. Marcus was joined by Gerald Bard Tjoflat and Charles R. Wilson, and Judges Barkett, Anderson, and Dubina filed separate dissents. In February 2020, Marcus was a member of a 3-judge panel in Jones et al. v. DeSantis, a 2020 voting rights case. 2018 Florida Amendment 4 permitted former felons to vote, however DeSantis signed a law that required former felons to pay all legal fees before being eligible to vote again, despite some of them not knowing how much they owed. District judge Robert Hinkle struck down that law, and the panel kept the injunction against the law. However, the panel was reversed in a sharply divided en banc decision that September. References External links |- 1946 births 20th-century American judges 21st-century American judges Assistant United States Attorneys Brooklyn Law School faculty Harvard Law School alumni Judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Judges of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Lawyers from New York City Living people Military personnel from New York City Queens College, City University of New York alumni United States Attorneys for the Southern District of Florida United States court of appeals judges appointed by Bill Clinton United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan