GOP blocks Obama's first judicial nominee

The Philadelphia Enquirer ^ | May 22, 2009 | Christopher Stern

[Clintonfatigued]

Republicans temporarily blocked Senate committee action on President Obama's first judicial appointment, attacking the nominee for rulings based on separation of church and state. Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, questioned the fitness of U.S. District Judge David Hamilton of Indiana to be promoted to a federal appeals court in Chicago.

"Our members are concerned about this nominee," Sessions said at yesterday's committee meeting. "He has had a number of troubling rulings dealing with a series of prayers at the Indiana legislature."

The Democratic-controlled panel, which will have the job of screening Obama's nominee to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter, postponed a preliminary vote on Hamilton's nomination.

[Tennessee Nana]

GOP blocks Obama’s first judicial nominee
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How did they do they ???

There’s not enough GOP to make a good baseball team...

[trustandobey]

Concerned about this nominee and any nominee Zero chooses. Thanks Jeff! Do what you can.

[Clintonfatigued]

This may very well be a temporary victory, but it’s something. David Hamilton is a certified moonbat, a former Vice President of Litigation for the state ACLU and a former fundraiser for ACORN.

Incidentally, his sister-in-law is Dawn Johnsen, an even more radical lawyer who’s been nominated for a job in the Obama Justice Department.

[Friendofgeorge]

Obama hates Christ!

[YellowRoseofTx]

How did they do they ??? There’s not enough GOP to make a good baseball team..

It's a committee rule, if the minority members (or possibly one member) protests a nominee in committee, that nominee doesn't get to House the floor for a vote

[ChildOfThe60s]

We are still getting shafted by Carter judges. I won’t live long enough to see the end of the Kenyan’s judges.

[Clintonfatigued]

I’m hoping (the audacity of my hope) that the remaining liberal judges like where they are until Obama leaves, and that the conservative judges remain healthy, vigorous, and enjoying their jobs.

[JohnBovenmyer]

How could the GOP do this? I think its a side effect of Spector jumping parties. IIRC the Judiciary committee rules require at least one member of the minority party to sign on before they can vote nominees out of committee and on to the full Senate. Spector had been their vote, but if the remaining GOP committee members hold tight they can keep people bottle up there. IIRC the Rats used this trick alot when they were in the minority. I believe there's some way around it, but with the GOP in charge they didn't have much luck doing it. It's nice to seem them fighting back even a little. I refuse to give to the NRSC until it's had both a coup and a putsch, but we can keep trying to replace the RINOs by supporting groups that target them. Like Senate Conservatives Fund, which is lead by DeMint, and Club For Growth.

[LeonardFMason]

Delay...Dispute...Deny....Delay...Dispute...Deny...
I would try to make everything the Democrats wanted to do like “giving birth”.

[BusterBear]

How did they do that ???

The committee rule is that the nominee must get at least one vote from the minority in order for the nomination to proceed to the floor of the Senate. So, in this case, Arlen Specter did the Republicans a favor by becoming a Democrat. If he had remained a Republican, he might have provided that one minority vote.

The Republicans on the committee could block nominations for the Supreme Court in the same way. Let's hope Lindsay Graham keeps voting with the Republicans.

[Always Right]

temporary

[NonValueAdded]

Prince Geoffrey: My, you chivalric fool... as if the way one fell down mattered.
Prince Richard: When the fall is all there is, it matters.

[Chode]

let the games begin...

[Still Thinking]

It will be interesting to see if they can (and are willing to) actually stop him or if this is just posturing for the base, and everyone he nominates eventually gets in as is usually the case for Democratic administrations.

[potlatch]

Are you remembering Ruth Ginsburg? She has pancreatic cancer, one of the worst kinds.

[Clintonfatigued]

Good point, but the odds area against them. They’re heavily outnumbered right now. For the time being, their onlny option is to let most go through, while concentrating all their fire on the most outrageous and egregious of the nominees.

[OrangeHoof]

The first shot across the SCOTUS bow.

[devolve]

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I wonder what her condition really is

The radical lefties have a habit of saying or doing anything to achieve their ends

Ginsberg has no belief in Constitutional law - she wants to delectively choose foreign judiciary precedents that will meet with her agenda

[potlatch]

I know from my father and much reading that pancreatic cancer is one of the worst. Michael Landon died in a year I believe. My father’s, caught early and treated with chemo and radiation, left him miserable but he lived 2 1/2 years after learning of it.

Ginsburg has looked bad for a long time and always very thin.

Do you recall when we all laughed about her falling asleep at the bench and wondered why the others didn’t quickly wake her? I believe she was ill then.