How US judges are (supposed) appointed...

The First Congress, and every Congress since then to the present day, has recognized that Advise and Consent requires only a majority vote in the Senate, and no more. The reason is that the Constitution specifies supra-majorities wherever the Framers thought that necessary. Examples include the supra-majorities to pass a constitutional amendment, ratify a treaty, or to override a presidential veto. Wherever the Constitution requires a decision by either House of Congress, it is a majority decision unless otherwise specified.

The filibuster, which requires a supra-majority to close off debate in the Senate, is NOT a part of the Constitution. That document does provide that “each House may determine [its own] rules.” But the Constitution does not say that the Senate can, in its established rules, alter the meaning of the text of the Constitution. And that is exactly what the Democrats claimed in the last four years, by applying the filibuster to judicial nominees.

It is unfortunate that we have had to go to an attorney outside of Maine for this special report on how Judges, on the federal level, get their jobs, but, to the best of our knowledge, since the closing of Article Ten and the Article Ten study group, there is no expert source in Maine on the US Constitution.

While there are many in Maine who claim to be experts on the US Constitution, their pointed and ignorant remarks about the Constitution being a living breathing document, belay their true ignorance. As a result, not wanting to get a reputation such as the Portland Press Herald and other so called news sources in the state have picked up due to their insistence on using biased, liberal, ignorant and often times out and out lying sources, we have instead chosen to go out of state.

The selection of sources is very important, to make our point, let me just ask you to think about the damage done to two CBS users in Maine, TV Channel 13 and AM Radio WGAN. Both have suffered what may be irreparable damage due to their being linked to CBS and as a result the Dan Rather forgery scandal and criminal act.
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While the lazy MSM continues to use discredited, lying, other MSM sources, we have come to rely upon Freepers.

As a result, in under 4 months we have reached over 17,000 hits. We are now, not due ot us, but due to the honesty and integrity of our writers and sources, most of which are either Freepers or Lurkers, becoming a news source to be reckoned with in Maine.

Thank you Freepers.

While I'm not to good writer myself, as many will attest, the boss asked me to be the editor cause, in his words "I do have a good nose for talented, knowledgeable and honest writers."

My biggest problem is how to pick and choose from all the excellent stuff that appears on FR

Why any editor or publisher today would stick with the old media as sources is beyond me.

Thanks,
Jake

But the Constitution does not say that the Senate can, in its established rules, alter the meaning of the text of the Constitution.

Need evidence? You need look no further than the rules change this week that allows Tom Daschles' staff to get two months severance pay. All that was required to do this was a simple rules change. An option by the way that is available to each new Senate. No Senate can give an incoming Senate less power than they themselves had.(Except by Constitutional Amendment)

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