Posted on 11/19/2013 9:30:37 AM PST by ColdOne
The Senate voted 38-53 against breaking a filibuster of the nomination of Judge Robert Wilkins to the court, after blocking votes on two other D.C. Circuit nominees -- Patricia Millett and Nina Pillard -- earlier this month.
"I am deeply disappointed that Senate Republicans have once again refused to do their job and give well-qualified nominees to the federal bench the yes-or-no votes they deserve," the president said in a statement.
"The American people and our judicial system deserve better," he later added. "A majority of the United States Senate supports these three extraordinary nominees, and it is time for simple yes-or-no votes without further obstruction or delay."
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looks like the republicans finally did something right.
Note to Obama...... It’s over.
You get nothing
Go jump of a bridge, Hussein. You’re not packing this court with commies.
We lied.
Can it be — Republicans finally resisting leftist judges who are turning the Constitution into the platform of the Democratic party?
As a Senator Obama voted to block every one of Bush’s appellate court nominees.
How liberal or commie is this Obama nominee? He must be awful for the Republicans to be keeping him away from the prize. He is black by the way.
these are polititical appointees not merit appointees.
Law schools are a joke for the last 20 years. They are nothing more than diploma mills for a meal ticket. Judges of the rank and file these days are nothing more than a step BELOW law professors.
Well, if the states were once again represented in the senate, judges wouldn’t think of taking away rights from the states that are guaranteed in the Constitution.
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