Black Group Joins Senate Majority in Seeking Timely Votes on Judicial Nominees

Project 21 ^ | 11.12.03 | David Almasi

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Members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 applaud the majority of U.S. senators seeking an end to obstructionist tactics that are keeping many federal judicial nominees from receiving a timely vote on their nominations.

To draw attention to this judicial crisis, these senators will participate in a 30-hour marathon session beginning at 6:00 PM on Wednesday, November 12 and running through the following evening. Project 21 member Mychal Massie, a Pennsylvania small business owner, will take part in a 3:30 AM press conference and Project 21 director David Almasi will take part in a 12:30 AM press conference, both to be held in the Mansfield Room of the U.S. Capitol, to discuss this crisis.

A minority of senators is engaging in the filibuster of judicial nominees, essentially increasing the number of votes needed for confirmation from the normal 51 votes to 60. Some judicial nominees have been waiting for a Senate vote since May of 2001, and many of these seats are considered ³judicial emergencies² due to the massive caseloads experienced by the courts they serve.

³Obstructionism is the order of the day when it pertains to how liberals are thwarting the President's appointments to the bench,² said Project 21 member Murdock ³Doc² Gibbs, a musician from Coppell, Texas. ³The public should be outraged that such experienced, respected and highly-qualified judges are being treated like second-class incompetents ‹ all because they don't pass the liberal litmus test.²

"An up-or-down vote is not only necessary, but it simply fair. Allow the nominees¹ accomplishments while on the bench to stand for themselves," said Project 21 member Michael King, a consultant from Atlanta, Georgia. "For the leftists on Capitol Hill and elsewhere to vilify nominees like Janice Rogers Brown, who is black, based on their social and political ideologies is not only wrong, but it demonstrates that their vaunted claims of caring about civil rights and advancement for people of all creeds and colors are nothing more than window dressing for their own racist views."

Project 21 has been a leading voice in the African-American community since 1992. For more information and to schedule an interview, contact David Almasi at (202) 371-1400 x106 or Project21@nationalcenter.org, or visit Project 21's web site at http://www.project21.org/P21Index.html.

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Was I harsh enough? [g]

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[.cnI redruM]

You got it right.

[T Lady]

You cut right to the chase.

...Democrats are nothing but closet racists. Especially the Congressional Black Caucus and the Progressive Caucus.

-Regards, T.

[Qwinn]

*grin* There's nothing -really- too harsh for them - but you were as harsh as honesty demands! Good show!

Qwinn

[Eva]

Roger Hedgecock mentioned that the last time that Janice Brown was up for re-election, she won 78% of the vote. The Democrat obstructionists are claiming that she is out of the mainstream; 78% of the vote sounds very mainstream to me. I bet that none of the Democrat obstructionist won such a clear majority in their districts.

[Warrior Nurse]

Judge Brown is out of the Democratic Mainstream alright, because their mainstream is the SEWER!

[TheBigB]

78% in California...land of Barbie Boxershorts and Dianne Feinswine. I wish someone would ask those two staright out, "You represent the people of California. Those same poeple gave Judge Brown 78% of their votes. Why are you not following their wishes?"

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The media couldn't ask a question like that.

[TheBigB]

I meant someone like Santorum or Nickles. During the "filibuster" tonight...

[Eva]

The fact that the Democrats don't consider 78% of the vote to be representative of mainstream America should be pointed out on the Senate floor, time and time again, everytime the statement is made that one of the judicial appointees are out of the mainstream. As a matter of fact, it would make a good campaign ad against the Democrat party.

[TheBigB]

It would be a GREAT question...I'd love to see Barbie or Dianne try to actually answer it. Unfortunately, it'll never happen. Such a question would be "mean-spirited" and "offensive", doncha know. I'm sure Jesse Jackass would even find a free camera somewhere to say it "smacks of racism."

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Murdock ³Doc² Gibbs, a musician from Coppell, Texas


Is that Doc Gibbs from Emeril Live?

[nicmarlo]

spot-on! Excellent article....will be watching tonight as long as possible (until my eyes close)....

[mhking]

LOL -- First time I ever talked to Doc, I asked him the same question. It's not; from what I understand, the two haven't met, but know of each other...

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More Blacks are Conservative than Liberal: Who's the "Race Traitor" Now?

In that new Gallup poll more blacks (30 percent) say they are conservative than say they are liberal (22 percent).

Interesting site.