Here's my understanding of the previous nominations of this group.
Terrence W. Boyle (4th Circuit) (first nominated May 9, 2001)
Priscilla Richman Owen (5th Circuit) (first nominated May 9, 2001)
David W. McKeague (6th Circuit) (first nominated November 8, 2001)
Susan Bieke Neilson (6th Circuit) (first nominated November 8, 2001)
Henry W. Saad (6th Circuit) (first nominated November 8, 2001)
Richard A. Griffin (6th Circuit) (first nominated June 26, 2002)
William H. Pryor (11th Circuit) (first nominated April 9, 2003)
William Gerry Myers, III (9th Circuit) (first nominated May 15, 2003)
Janice Rogers Brown (District of Columbia Circuit) (first nominated July 25, 2003)
Brett M. Kavanaugh (District of Columbia Circuit) (first nominated July 25, 2003)
William James Haynes, II (4th Circuit) (first nominated September 29, 2003)
Thomas B. Griffith (District of Columbia Circuit) (first nominated May 10, 2004)
District Courts:
James C. Dever, III (Eastern District, North Carolina) (first nominated May 22, 2002)
Thomas L. Ludington (Eastern District, Michigan) (first nominated September 12, 2002)
Robert J. Conrad (Western District, North Carolina) (first nominated April 28, 2003)
Daniel P. Ryan (Eastern District, Michigan) (first nominated April 28, 2003)
Peter G. Sheridan (New Jersey) (first nominated November 5, 2003)
Paul A. Crotty (Southern District, New York) (first nominated September 7, 2004)
Sean F. Cox (Eastern District, Michigan) (first nominated September 10, 2004)
J. Michael Seabright (Hawaii) (first nominated September 15, 2004)
Thanks for the details. This thread is a keeper!
Oh! I pray Dear Lord, thank you for our President and help him get these judges through!
Damn..I mean just DAMN!
WASHINGTON Feb 14, 2005 — President Bush on Monday sent the Senate 20 judicial nominees, including several who were blocked in his first term, signaling a new fight with Democrats.
"Every judicial nominee deserves a prompt hearing and an up-or-down vote on the floor of the United States Senate," Bush said at the swearing in of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
The Democrats' ability to stall White House picks for the federal bench was one of the most contentious issues of Bush's first term. With a Senate comprised of 55 Republicans, 44 Democrats and a Democrat-leaning independent, Democrats still have the 40 votes necessary to uphold a filibuster.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has threatened to try to change Senate rules to force confirmation votes if Democrats carry out their filibuster threats.
"We need to restore the tradition of giving advice and consent, and that means having a nominee coming from the president to us with majority support be allowed a vote, an up-or-down vote vote against, vote for, but allowed a vote," he said on Fox News Sunday.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., called Bush's renominations regrettable.
"The president looks like he is still more interested in picking fights than picking judges," Kennedy said. "The last thing the federal courts need is reactionary judges bent on rolling back basic constitutional rights."
Gotta Luv "Dub'ya"! GO GEORGE, GO! That's twenty resubmissions by my count. Let the ObstructocRats choke on this bipartisan-spirited maneuver. One of three things must occur here:
1.) A straight "yes/no" vote on all candidates. No games, no single issue "litmus test" questionnaires, no delaying tactics while launching a "dirty press" offensive through their collaborators in the MSM. Just a vote.
2.) Failing #1, plan for recess appointments for all candidates not immediately given such consideration. Confirmation of already seated judges to come later.
3.) Frist, et al invoke the dreaded "nuke-ya-luhr" (aka "nuclear") option, and go on a talk radio/FNC/Blogosphere offensive to expose the primary demonRat instigators immediately thereafter.
It's that simple. And we, the American people (at least 62.3 million of us) are squarely behind them!
No prisoners. No RINO's (like Snowe or Chaffee) straying off the GOP reservation to lift a moistened finger in the wind, and play for camera time.
Just "git 'er done"!
Tee hee hee. Nice way to deflect from the additional $82 billion request.
That's our President. Coming right back at them, keeping 'em off balance!
Slap. Slap. Slap. Slap. Slap. Etc.
I love a man who sticks to his guns.
I've seen some of these names before. I don't absolutely know where every judge stands, but I suspect that almost all of them are sound.
When Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, and Bush made lousy appointments to the Supreme Court, it was usually because the better candidates were shot down and then they agreed to COMPROMISE.
G. W. Bush is the first Republican president since Eisenhower, if my memory is correct, who has essentially refused to compromise--that is, withdraw the best candidates and put up mediocre candidates instead.
That's how we got Souter and the other losers. Republican presidents let themselves be maneuvered by the Democrats. So far, at least, Bush has stuck to his guns, God bless him.
CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
We no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens.
Whoooo Hoooooo!!! You go Girl!
I will never be satisfied until the Miguel Estrada sits on the bench in America. I pray that this amazing man reconsiders, and Frist pushes him through.
Get it on!!!
Maybe the 'Rats will relent on some of the nominations. After all, they remember what happened to Tom Daschle.
I haven't seen any discussion of this on the usual leftie sites.
Too bad. I was looking for seething, irrational anger.
Right on!!! It's going to be fun to watch the RATS try to stop these folks. :)
My fellow Americans, let's roll.
Political Capital being spent....
Go W!!!
Time for the obstructionists to put up or shut up. Frist should at least make them mount a real filibuster and lose some sleep if they want to cause problems.
