[diotima]

FRN has been contacted by the Senate Republican Conference and the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary for our help in breaking the Democrat obstruction to get conservative judicial nominees appointed.

We have been complaining about the lack of Republican backbone. Now lets show support when they grow one. We are asking for members of the forum to help keep this thread bumped and urge your friends, family, EVERYONE, to take action to support the filibuster effort.

[thoughtomator]

Sigh... my Senators are Schumer and Clinton... they are the prime movers of politicization. Anyone else worth writing to for someone from New York?

[diotima]

ping!

[Bob J]

ping!

[Tall_Texan]

I can only e-mail and call from afar to two Republican senators but I'll do my part.

FOR FAIRNESS. FOR JUSTICE. FOR RULE OF LAW. STOP THE BLOCKADE!

Do it for the children...

[Nam Vet]

Bump

Nam Vet

[Congressman Billybob]

Absolutely fantastic that RFR will be there doing interviews. There's a lot of down time when the Senators are just hanging around in the middle of the night with nothing to do. And they have to remain conscious (except for brief naps on cots brought it). So interviews make a logical use of time.

I am rather curious how RFR got the right to be outside the Senate Chamber to do this. Temporary press credentials? Personal invitation from friendly Senators? Please do report on that aspect.

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Open Judicial Mouth, Insert Foot," discussion thread. IF YOU WANT A FREEPER IN CONGRESS, CLICK HERE.

[Mo1]

btt

[LisaFab]

Will "regular" citizens be allowed into the gallery for the session?

[diotima]

ping!

[ForOurFuture]

This appears worth a bump.

[Aeronaut]

I got a good one and a bad one. Norm Coleman is a moderate Republican who will vote for the judges. Dayton, on the other hand, suffers whiplash everytime Kennedy, Hillary!, or Chucky stops quickly.

[Rabid Dog]

Ventura County Freepers - stand ready to assist. Chapter leaders should have a game plan by the end of the weekend. In the meantime, bump this post please.

[diotima]

GOP Seeks Filibuster-Proof Ways to Advance Bush Nominees
Fred Jackson and Bill Fancher
Agape Press

Republicans in Washington are apparently ready to try a new tactic aimed at putting a stop to the Democrats' blocking of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees.

Many feel it has been nothing short of an embarrassment for the Republican Party that despite it being the majority party in Congress and holding the White House, the Democrats have succeeded in putting a halt to every judicial nominee that they deem too conservative.

The latest Democrat success came Thursday when, once again, Democrats blocked the nomination of Alabama Attorney General William Pryor. That is the same thing that happened last week to Charles Pickering, and it is likely to be the same fate for another Bush nominee, California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown.


The Senate Judiciary Committee narrowly approved Brown to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, but Democrats are poised to block her Senate confirmation as they have done with a number of Bush's most conservative nominees to appeals courts.

Next week the Republicans are going to try to draw attention to the Democrats' stalling. GOP Senate leaders are planning a 30-hour non-stop "talkathon," beginning next Wednesday evening. However, Democrats say that will be fine with them, and they are ready to participate.

According to John Nowacki of the Judicial Selection Monitoring Project, the filibuster of Charles Pickering's nomination last week is the latest example of a deplorable tactic that the Democrats appear to have adopted -- character assaults based on false information.

The appointment process analyst notes that Pickering has been a federal district judge for more than a decade and has a very clear record of judicial restraint. "And yet he's still being attacked," Nowacki says, "and I think that demonstrates that no matter how much experience someone has, no matter how much evidence there is of someone's judicial temperament ... no matter what, there's still going to be this opposition."

Apparently, Nowacki says, to Democrats who are being manipulated by special-interest groups, truth means nothing.

In the wake of the continued filibustering, many feel President Bush has every right to make recess appointments. However, Nowacki points out that this may not be a viable option. While recess appointments have been made in the past, many judicial nominees do not like them because they are only in effect for the period while the appointing president is in office.

Nowacki explains that in many cases, appointed judges like Priscilla Owens or Janice Rogers Brown would be giving up a seat on their state Supreme Court or other high bench position to "go take a judgeship for a year or two and then be out of a job again, and not even be able to go back to [the] previous position."

Nowacki feels that is too much to ask of men and women who have worked so hard to get where they are. Most federal judicial positions are "lifetime" appointments -- except for those made during congressional recesses.

©2003 Agape Pres

[Iowa Granny]

Those FReepers living too far away to participate should begin rounding up FRiends to go to the Rat Senator's state offices and picket on behalf of the judicial nominations.

I am currently putting a list together of contacts who might be willing to assist.

[Patriot1]

My Louisiana senators are Breaux and Landrieu, both dems. I will call their offices as well as send an email message urging them to STOP THE OBSTRUCTION.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

A BUMP for America !

[deener]

I just finished writing to Sen. Kyl and Sen. McCain in support of the filibuster.

[pageonetoo]

I live in the panhandle of WV, and have already written (for what good it will do) to Sen. KKK, and to the treasonous Rockyfeller... I would like to go visit the chambers while this is going on...
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[afraidfortherepublic]

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[Memother]

Mark Pryor of Arkansas contacted. Thanks Dio