Posted on 04/21/2005 8:53:05 AM PDT by Trueblackman
On a 10-8 vote, Priscilla Owen has just gotten through the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now heads to the Senate floor for a full vote -- All up to Majority Leader Frist as to when.
You mean Brown is a female minority?
WHAT a surprise.
Don't get me wrong but some day I long for Trent Lott as majority leader!
I don't know. I'd say with the Voinovich stunt, and with the leaks on the Hill about bad polling data on the nuke option, looks like it might be the dems sensing blood in the water. We shall see. When's the vote? Anyone know?
There's no blinking going on... the Dems will still prevent cloture on the floor of the Senate... and the GOP is still unsure if they have 50 votes for a rules change.
The amazing thing is that the GOP didn't blink. Of course the nomination left committee, we are still the majority. At least numerically.
That's my thinking - force Frist's hand now, while the RINOs are enjoying their power.
I guess Voinovich, Chaffee and some others have told the Dems of their true alliegence. "Just count on us, guys, to screw it up in the end."
Fat Ted must have had a hang over and could not muster his fat ass up out of the chair to argue about it. Probably busy puking in his hat.
Well praise God!!!
No surprise.
I think she has gotten through committee before.
It's the floor vote we need.
Wasn't there others scheduled for a vote in Committee today?.... Janice Brown and maybe one other..... I think they are holding Pryor till next week.
The vote was 10-8 last Congress for her to get out of Committee... Don't see any blinks in this vote. If so it would have been 11-7 or something like that, imo.
There is no lock box and no testicles. We Republicans keep allowing ourselves to be steered into sending bum steers to Washington.
After your example, black Americans should get disgusted over this kind of blatant racism, and have the principle to reject it as such even though it works to their advantage. I wish there were more, and hope this act of pandering is fully publicized for what it is.
The Slave Party has done little for black Americans but destroy families, entrap them with entitlements, color their achievements with affirmative action, and assure that their kids don't get an education. It's a wonder to me that blacks vote for Democrats at all.
Republicans send Owen nomination to Senate
By JESSE J. HOLLAND Associated Press Writer The Associated Press
Republicans sent a Texas judge´s name to the full Senate for confirmation for a third time Thursday, moving closer to a confrontation over Democratic filibustering of President Bush´s judicial nominees.
The Senate Judiciary Committee on a 10-8 party-line vote gave its approval to judge Priscilla Owen, who was nominated by Bush for a seat on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.
The committee was scheduled to do the same for California judge Janice Rogers Brown, who is seeking a lifetime slot on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia.
Owen and Brown were blocked from confirmation by Democratic filibuster threats during Bush´s first term, but were renominated by the president after he won a second term in November. Democrats consider the nominees too conservative.
Republicans said Democratic complaints were unfounded and that Owen should be confirmed since the Senate´s GOP majority has the 51 votes necessary.
"She deserves to be confirmed and she deserves the professional courtesy of an up or down vote," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, who served on the Texas Supreme Court with Owen.
But Democrats made clear they would attempt to filibuster Owen again. "Since we last considered this nomination, nothing has changed to make us think she should be confirmed," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.
Owen´s nomination is not worth the confrontation it will cause, said Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the Senate´s no. 2 Democrat.
"This nomination is going to be precipitate a confrontation that we do not need," Durbin said.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., has threatened to ban judicial filibusters to stop Democrats from blocking the judges again, and has been working to secure the 50 votes he needs from his Republican caucus to make the rules change.
It requires 60 votes in the Senate to overcome a filibuster.
In an attempt to make Republicans reconsider that plan, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has vowed to slow or halt Senate action on much routine business if Frist follows through with his threat to force up-and-down votes in which nominees could be confirmed by a bare majority of the 100-member Senate.
Without GOP defections, Democrats can´t stop Brown and Owen from advancing to the full Senate for approval since the Judiciary Committee has 10 Republicans and eight Democrats.
However, Democrats have promised to continue to filibuster all seven nominees they blocked during Bush´s first term. Democrats blocked 10 judicial nominees from confirmation through filibuster threats. Three withdrew and Bush renominated the rest.
North Carolina judge Terrence W. Boyle, a former aide to retired Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., who expected a committee vote as well, was held over after Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., requested extra time to review some of his rulings as a U.S. District judge. Boyle was never filibustered by Democrats because his nomination was blocked in committee by then-North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.
Another of Bush´s blocked nominees, Idaho lawyer William Myers, already has been approved by the Judiciary Committee. But conservatives would rather see the final showdown come over Brown, Owen or U.S. Appeals Court Judge William Pryor, who was given a temporary appointment by Bush after he was blocked by Democrats.
Pryor´s nomination is expected to be advanced by the Judiciary Committee next week.
Conservatives during the last Congress accused Democrats of being anti-minority for blocking Brown, who is black; anti-women for blocking Owen, and anti-Catholic for blocking Pryor.
Activists plan a similar tactic this year, with Frist planning to deliver a taped message to Christian conservatives on April 24 who say Democrats are "against people of faith" for blocking Bush´s nominees.
But Democrats say they blocked Owen, a Texas Supreme Court justice and a friend of the president´s, because her opinions and rulings are overly influenced by her pro-business and anti-abortion personal beliefs.
Brown, who serves on the California Supreme Court, was described by liberals as being a conservative judicial activist whose personal opinions lead her to decisions limiting abortion rights and corporate liability and opposing affirmative action.
Straight party-line vote. Same 10-8 count voted Janice Rogers Brown out as well.
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Tell me the liberal left is not SCARED TO DEATH of sucsessful black female judges being seen in the limelight. This is just not supposed to happen when BLACKS IN AMERICA ARE VICTIMS and they MUST HAVE THE LIBS TO SAVE THEM from the evil right, anti-black conspiracy....
"Testicular lockbox" is great.
Getting out of committee isn't the problem. Its getting cloture on the floor that's been holding up everything. If the Republicans can't get 60 votes for cloture, the nomination is effectively fillibustered. Nothing new here at all, except the showdown in the Senate is that much closer.
That strategery won't work for the Dems..here's why..if they allow a vote on some of them...Brown, for example, will get 60+ votes...all the Dems from the Red states up in 2006..so the argument that the Dems have the right to filabuster will be negated...when they try to stop the others...
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