Posted on 03/05/2005 1:58:10 PM PST by Mark Noonan
Judge Terrence W. Boyle of North Carolina was nominated by President Bush on May 9, 2001. He finally got his hearing this week. Judge Boyle's hearing had previously been stalled by Senator John Edwards. During the hearing Ted Kennedy criticized Boyle because he's ruling have "been reversed on appeal far more than any other district judge in the 4th Circuit."
In fact, Boyle's reversal rate was misrepresented by Democrats, the Charlotte Observer notes:
It was Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who challenged Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on his claim that 12 percent of Boyle's appealed decisions were reversed -- twice as high as the 4th Circuit's average. Graham, citing the Administrative Office of the Courts, said Boyle's reversal rate was 7.5 percent, which is below the national average of 9.7 percent. Democrats talking about reversal rates is the ultimate irony. Senate Democrats appear ready to filibuster the re-nomination of William G. Myers III, a former Interior Department lawyer who was blocked by the Democrats from getting seat on the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the court most overturned by the Supreme Court—and the most liberal.
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The showdown cannot come soon enough.
What garbage that party is made up of now.
If the 'nets and the NYT started calling them on the trash they are spewing, that party would be gone in two years. But the MSM had a vested interest in those liars.
His story about his "mother's last words." What a transparent crock o' dogp**p that guy is. His is just SHAMELESS.
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