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To: inquest

You are right in one respect. There has been a whole lot of nominating going on, but a whole lot lesss confirming going on.

Six nominee's to high courts are still in limbo out there somewhere. Other than the 5 or the the Gang of 14 let by, there has not been much confirming going on.

Why hasn't Kavenaugh been confirmed?


127 posted on 10/16/2005 3:12:39 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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To: tennmountainman
You are right in one respect. There has been a whole lot of nominating going on, but a whole lot lesss confirming going on.

And I don't think it would be expecting too much of a President who was truly concerned about reining in judicial activism, to put up some kind of fight for his nominees. That means demanding that the Dems get up and explain clearly to the American people what's so horrible about these judges that they have to engage in extraordinary methods to keep them from being confirmed.

And he should not let them get away with tired cliches about them being "extremist" or whatever. They should have to explain exactly what they mean. That would put their 'nads in a vice, because we all know what the real reason for their opposition is: They're afraid that these judges would uphold too many laws that the people themselves enacted.

But the Republicans, time and again, let the Democrats get away with not having to address that publicly. Until they at least start making some attempt at that, they can't convince me that they're committed to judicial good behavior.

132 posted on 10/16/2005 3:23:36 PM PDT by inquest (FTAA delenda est)
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