Judicial Nominee Refuses To Remain Silenced (Janice Brown)

Captains Quarters Blog ^ | 4/26/05 | Staff

[Catholic and Conservative]

“Democrats often point out that the Senate has confirmed more than 200 of Mr. Bush's judicial nominees. True, but the heavy majority of those have been for district court positions. At the appeals court level, a step below the Supreme Court, filibusters have kept 10 out of 52 nominations from being voted upon”.

So the approval rate for appellate nominations is lower, 79%, which to me doesn't seem bad unless one is completely bent on getting everything they want.

I checked the article you linked to; it is consistent with the one I mentioned to you. Ten out of 52 appellate court nominees are being filibustered. Where you are making a mistake is in assuming that the rest have all been confirmed. In fact, only 34 have, giving a confirmation rate of 65% rather than 79%.

My guess is that it would be difficult for a judge to be confirmed to a higher court, if Democrats knew for sure that he or she held traditional views on abortion and homosexuality. I hope that you are right, and that they are more of a "big-tent" party than that.

[John Lenin]

You go, girl !

[rodguy911]

The trick for GW is to get everything done that we need, immigration reform, Socha Security is a dream, judges in, we really need tort reform and term limits IMHO and not, not sink to the level of the rats to get it done. Tough job.

[middie]

The response to your discourse is simple: The judicial oath which froms the premise of your comments is the oath a witness takes in preparation for testimony. It has nothing to do with the oath a judge takes to apply the law without fear or favor, impartially and dispassionately irrespective of a partiy's faith, color or any other singular trait attributable to a person before the court.

[traviskicks]

Gotta love these quotes:
From http://www.neoperspectives.com/quotes.htm


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.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable. Indeed, the majority's zeal is more than a little endearing. There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown

The public school system is already so beleaguered by bureaucracy; so cowed by the demands of due process; so overwhelmed with faddish curricula that its educational purpose is almost an afterthought.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown