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Apr

21

The Fight Is On! Time To End the Judicial Filibuster

Posted By: 'Okie' | 9:20 am — 4/21/2005 | Comments Off See comments below:

Bingo! Two Democratic-nightmare Circuit Court judicial nominees comin’ right up!

Republicans on Thursday moved closer to a showdown with Democrats over filibusters of President Bush’s judicial nominees, sending two judges under dispute to the full Senate.

The GOP-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee on identical 10-8 partisan votes gave its approval to Texas judge Priscilla Owen and California judge Janice Rogers Brown, who were nominated by Bush for lifetime judgeships on the regional U.S. appeals courts, the nation’s second-highest courts.

Owen wants to work on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans and Brown wants a seat on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia. They were blocked from confirmation by Democratic filibuster threats during Bush’s first term but were renominated by the president after he won a second term in November.

The line in the sand has been drawn. Senator Frist must now believe that he has the necessary votes to change the cloture rule and eliminate the filibustering of judicial nominees. Guess we’ll find out next week! Keep calling and emailing the fence sitters. As they say on Iron Chef, “The Battle Is ON!”

Other SoCal Bloggers’ Alliance blogging on this at:
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Hedgehog Blog
Sheep’s Crib
Holy Coast

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