Posted on 10/25/2007 5:11:43 AM PDT by Brilliant
Edited on 10/25/2007 5:22:43 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
One up and nine to go. That's the count of appellate court nominees now that Judge Leslie Southwick was confirmed yesterday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit after a dreary Senate fight of many months.
Unanimously approved by the Judiciary Committee for a District Court judgeship, Judge Southwick should have been a consensus choice for the appellate bench. Instead, the judicial left used the excuse of his Mississippi provenance to play racial politics because the Fifth Circuit lacks a black judge. He was deemed unacceptable simply because he is white.
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It’s great we got another Conservative judge on the 5th Circuit Court, but the extremely LIBERAL 9th CIRCUS Court is the one we need to work on.
“the Fifth Circuit lacks a black judge”
They lack a midget judge too. Point?
Hmmm.... I’m not sure if they lack a midget judge. In fact, they might all be midgets.
Oh, how I would love to see these egotistical buffoons called before a huge panel of the truly honorable people that they have interrogated, and have them subjected to the same treatment. Few, if any of them, would pass muster.
Plantation politics.
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