Posted on 11/30/2007 2:05:11 PM PST by Turret Gunner A20
California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is blocking the nomination of former Republican Congressman James Rogan to the federal bench, due largely to Rogan’s leading role in the impeachment of President Bill Clinton.
Rogan served in the U.S. House from 1997 to 2001, and due to his background as a prosecutor, was selected as one of 13 House managers for the impeachment trial.
“U.S. Rep. Rogan was one of the most enthusiastic backers of impeachment — he thought President Clinton had committed high crimes and misdemeanors,” Boxer’s spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz said.
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“I don’t even recall hearing his name.”
He was one of the major guys during impeachment.
What makes this “blue slipping” all the more remarkable are two facts:
1. District-court nominees almost never are blocked. They’re trial court positions; the power largely lies in the Courts of Appeals.
2. Rogan was a “consensus nominee” reported back to the White House by the so-called Parsky Committee, whose members include folks who are put there by Boxer and Feinstein, among others, including Republicans.
If such a nominee is filibustered / blocked-from-advancing, then, all the more reason to scrap such hand-holding committees. They obviously offer little guarantee that a nominee will be treated substantively, or even procedurally, fairly.
When will the voters in California wake up and elect somebody else for this Senate seat? Sen. Boxer needs to go home.
Maybe next time the California GOP will actually wage a campaign against her - if they did the last time, I completely missed it.
Barbie is tied to the cliton gang..Barbies grandson is a nephew to hillary and a nephew to the other Rodham brother. the fat one and druggie..
What I fail to understand is why 51 Senators cannot just sign (with some sort of notarization, perhaps by a suitable employee of the Clerk Of The Senate) a letter stating something like,
“We, the undersigned Senators, having reviewed the nomination of XXXXXXXXXX to the office of XXXXXXXXXX as set forth in XXXXXXX [formal doc whereby the nomination was sent to the Senate], and having exercised our Advise and Consent power as set forth in the Constitution, hereby formally vote to confirm said nomination.”
If the nominee gets 51 notarized Sens’ sigs, we just swear him in. Let Reid try to get a court to void the confirmation, I dare him.
If a Democrat wins the presidency in ‘08 is there ONE Republican senator who will have the nerve to filibuster every one of their judicial nominees? They’d better. Give them a taste of their own bitter medicine.
Would love to say something here about Bush, but I'd take a wait and see attitude about whether or not Bush leaves him twisting in the wind.
I hope Mr. Rogan has a firm grip on the rope he is hanging onto to. My gut tells me he'll need it.
I swear that Boxer and Pilosi are ruining all of the advances that the women’s movement have made. A more petty, vindictive, and positively stupid set of females existeth not in the modern world. Bimbo, thy name is senatewoman.
The difference between Dems and GOP. Dems from Deep Blue Staes are tireless fighters for the cause. Republicans from Ruby Red States are too busy in scandals (see Craig and Stevens) to fight for the cause.
I love Jim Rogan. I sent him an email once after I heard an interview he gave regarding a book he wrote a couple of years ago. It seems he grew up very very poor in California. He is a self made man. What was so touching was his personal encounter as a young man with Ronald Reagan and how Reagan changed his whole life in those few moments. Rogan is a true blue conservative and the kind of man the Republican party needs as a leader.
By the way, he graciously answered my email and said he would never be ashamed or regret his part in the Clinton impeachment.
It’s a common practice referred to as Senatorial Courtesy...usually it’s used to allow the state’s senator to introduce the nominee at his/her Judiciary Committee hearing...not to slam or block the nominee. Boxer is a shameless jackass.
Boxer cannot block the nomination if the president decides to nominate him. Clearing it with the senators from the state the nominee comes from is a mere formality and not a constitutional requirement.
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