Posted on 11/13/2008 5:55:35 AM PST by kellynla
Its a given that Barack Obama will change the balance on the courts to a liberal judicial outlook. What is surprising is how quickly he could do that.
Because Democrats dragged their heels on President Bushs judicial nominations, 14 seats are open on appeals courts or will be by the end of January. Democratic nominees now are a majority on only one of the 13 federal appeals courts, the ultra-liberal U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco. Within four years, Obama could name enough judges to give Democrats a majority on nine of the 13 appeals courts.
On the Supreme Court, five justices are older than 70. The first likely to retire is Justice John Paul Stevens, who is 88. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is 75. Justice David Souter, who will turn 70 next year, is known to be unhappy living in Washington. Assuming Obama is re-elected, Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy will be 80 by his second term.
Thus, Obama will be able to name several Supreme Court justices. Given that Democrats hold a majority of the Senate, Obama will have little trouble obtaining confirmation of his appointees. A simple majority of the Senate confirms judicial appointments.
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McCain received 8 million less votes from conservative voters that voted for GW in 2004.
I laughed, but I still went and stayed on line for an hour and a half to vote for the pathetic old schmoo McCain and the Republicans.
I think it's time to start refocusing on the party itself that got clobbered so badly.
Thanks.
And it wasn't that much of a clobbering, all things considered (that being the mood of the nation, the media worship of 0bama, and the historic nature of his candidacy, and the fact that McCain was and is a legislatively confused old man).
Wouldn’t that require two more Supreme Court justices?
In other words, they're almost within an eyelash of having total absolute power over the federal government, especially once Obama starts appointing his Supreme Court justices.
The Republicans have absolutely no margin of error at all for the next election. We need to start drawing up a serious battle plan to avoid another catastrophe, or it might be too late.
McCain engineered his(and our ) defeat with the McCain-Feingold bill and all his reaching across the aisle.By helping stop the Republicans from using the power when they had some,he insured they soon would have much less.
A simple majority of the Senate confirms judicial appointments
Then how diod the Dems hold up Bush’s appointments to lower courts for the first 6 years of his presidency.
One word... filibuster.
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