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41 Senate Republicans Send Letter To President Obama Urging Consultation On Judicial Nominees
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Posted on 03/02/2009 8:46:11 PM PST by cc2k

41 Senate Republicans Send Letter To President Obama Urging Consultation On Judicial Nominees

March 2, 2009


President Barack H. Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.  20500


Dear Mr. President:

We look forward to working with you as you consider nominees for the federal judiciary.  Unfortunately, the judicial appointments process has become needlessly acrimonious.  We would very much like to improve this process, and we know you would as well.  It is in that spirit that we write early on to suggest two steps your Administration can take to achieve that shared goal.  

First, in the beginning of his Administration, your predecessor demonstrated his desire to improve the judicial confirmation process by nominating to the circuit courts two of President Clinton’s previous judicial nominees, Judge Barrington Parker to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and Judge Roger Gregory to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.  It would help change the tone in Washington if your Administration would take the same bipartisan step.  Because the last Congress sadly set the modern record for the fewest circuit court confirmations in a President’s final Congress, there are plenty of well-qualified nominees with bipartisan support from whom to choose.  For example, Peter Keisler has been praised repeatedly by colleagues in both the public and private sector, Democrats and Republicans, and has earned accolades from major media observers, like The Washington Post.  And Judges Glen Conrad and Paul Diamond both enjoyed bipartisan support and have outstanding records on the federal trial bench.


Second, as our Democratic colleagues have emphasized for the last several years, the process of federal appointments is a shared constitutional responsibility.  We respect your responsibility to nominate suitable candidates for the federal bench.  And as a former colleague, we know you appreciate the Senate’s unique constitutional responsibility to provide or withhold its Advice and Consent on nominations.  The principle of senatorial consultation (or senatorial courtesy) is rooted in this special responsibility, and its application dates to the Administration of George Washington.  Democrats and Republicans have acknowledged the importance of maintaining this principle, which allows individual senators to provide valuable insights into their constituents’ qualifications for federal service. 

We hope your Administration will consult with us as it considers possible nominations to the federal courts from our states.  Regretfully, if we are not consulted on, and approve of, a nominee from our states, the Republican Conference will be unable to support moving forward on that nominee.  Despite press reports that the Chairman of the Judiciary Committee now may be considering changing the Committee’s practice of observing senatorial courtesy, we, as a Conference, expect it to be observed, even-handedly and regardless of party affiliation.  And we will act to preserve this principle and the rights of our colleagues if it is not.      


Because of the profound impact that life-tenured federal judges can have in our society, the Founders made their appointment a shared constitutional responsibility.  We look forward to working with you to discharge this important duty in the best interest of our country.


Sincerely,
All Republican Senators


Cc: The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy



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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: activistcourts; activistjudges; bho2009; cloture; judicialnominees; judicialtyranny; judiciarycommittee; nuclearoption; obama; obstruction; payback; present
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To: batter

me:”Don’t worry. By 2012 there’ll be 73 R-Senators.”

you;”Only if the GOP can get its sorry act together.”

Evens Dems will vote for anybody by that time.


61 posted on 03/03/2009 7:46:37 AM PST by papasmurf (Impeach the illegal bastard!)
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To: papasmurf

LOL...hey this is fun...

P _ _ _ I _ E _ _ Obama.


62 posted on 03/03/2009 7:48:18 AM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: cc2k

63 posted on 03/03/2009 7:52:33 AM PST by agrace
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To: cc2k

new movie title “Burn Before Reading”.


64 posted on 03/03/2009 7:57:55 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB (ACORN:American Corruption for Obama Right Now)
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To: mojitojoe
"We have a Communist black racist, closet Muslim, ineligible citizen, inept unqualified and narcissistic Islamist sympathizer as prez,"

Fixed!

65 posted on 03/03/2009 8:07:48 AM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: cc2k
"Cc: The Honorable Patrick J. Leahy"

Seeing the term "Honorable" associated with Leaky Lying Leahy is infuriating.....

That is one sonuvabitch who has NEVER been or behaved honorably....and to apply the term even as "form", diminishes the meaning and significance of the word.

66 posted on 03/03/2009 8:10:52 AM PST by river rat (Semper Fi - You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: cc2k
41 Senate Republicans kiss President Barack H. Obama ass, he got the MEDIA
67 posted on 03/03/2009 8:26:58 AM PST by patriotmediaa
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To: Redbob

The GOP is spineless. A kenyan-born ineligble marxist muslim is president and they are sending letters.

The GOP is useless after Snowe, Collins and Specter caved to obama.

I have more faith that Democrat attorney Phil Berg will do something about the usurper.


68 posted on 03/03/2009 9:42:57 AM PST by Frantzie (Boycott GE - they own NBC, MSNBC, CNBC & Universal. Boycott Disney - they own ABC)
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To: cc2k

69 posted on 03/03/2009 10:16:50 AM PST by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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To: OldTCS; musicman
“PRES__ENT” Obama = without “ID”
Nice :)


Agreed

I especially like the double entendre aspect of it. Not only does it poke fun of the lack of a birth certificate, it reminds us of how many times he voted "Present"
70 posted on 03/03/2009 10:33:24 AM PST by contemplator (Capitalism gets no Rock Concerts)
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To: Sir Gawain
Ooh a stern letter. Someone has been studying the strategies of Captain Picard.

"STOP...or I shall say STOP again!"

71 posted on 03/03/2009 10:36:22 AM PST by Ancesthntr (Tyrant-wannabee: "Spartans, lay down your weapons." Free man: "Persian, come and get them!")
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To: contemplator; OldTCS; All

Thank you both!


72 posted on 03/03/2009 10:38:47 AM PST by musicman (Until I see a REAL C.O.L.B. BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: cc2k

Oh yeah, that will show him.


73 posted on 03/03/2009 11:55:52 AM PST by NCBraveheart (My inner child is a mean little SOB)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

Pres__ent Obama, the Kenyan Keynesian.

That’s pretty funny except Obama isn’t even a Keynesian. He’s left that limp Liberal in the dust.


74 posted on 03/03/2009 12:07:24 PM PST by saganite (What would Sully do?)
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To: Choose Ye This Day

“The Pres__ent. I like that.”

Also, the way he always voted...


75 posted on 03/03/2009 3:25:26 PM PST by jessduntno (We will never get him out of office peacefully...)
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To: cc2k

“pretty please with a cherry on top” isn’t gonna get them anywhere.

The Republican party is completely ineffectual and impotent at this point.

Until they start thinking like conservatives, acting like conservatives and wishing for bipartisanship that will NEVER come, they will continue to be in the minority.

I’m thoroughly disgusted with this half-assed group of so-called representatives and disgusted with the RNC and it’s lack of leadership. Here we have the new RNC chair out kissing the ass of halfwit talk show hosts rather starting a grassroots reform movement which is sorely needed.

They’ll not get a dime more of my money (and they haven’t for quite some time) until they “get it”. If they never do, then so be it and let the party die. A new one will emerge with principled leadership at some point and all these underachievers can go home and fade into oblivion where they belong.

/rant over

but I feel better now :p


76 posted on 03/03/2009 3:38:22 PM PST by conservativebabe (awaiting inspiration for a new tagline)
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To: jessduntno

Yup. That’s why I liked it.


77 posted on 03/03/2009 4:00:57 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day (Tu ne cede malis.)
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To: musicman

Until I see a REAL C.O.L.B. BC,

he’s just “PRES__ENT” Obama = without “ID”

Make that a bumper sticker and I will buy 25!

pm me when they are ready!


78 posted on 03/03/2009 4:26:37 PM PST by freebird5850 (O-Bomb-a, the sleeper cell that slipped by all of us.)
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To: All
I'll just have to break out my favorite Rumsfeld image to direct towards the Republicans:

Did you not see this coming? Could you have prevented it by having some principles? It is too late now.

79 posted on 03/03/2009 6:50:55 PM PST by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: anymouse

80 posted on 03/03/2009 6:57:22 PM PST by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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