Operation Counter-Bork: Freepers Must Act Now to Save Nomination of Conservative Judge

Various | February 11, 2002 | IM2Phat4U

[IM2Phat4U]

The left has launched an all out attack on President Bush’s Judicial Nominee, Judge Charles Pickering, and it is time to fight back.

If the liberals can successfully bork Judge Pickering, they will be emboldened and begin targeting other Bush nominees for destruction.

Of course, this is also a warm up for the big one - - Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court. If we start losing battles to the left’s borking-machine, Bush may feel the need to compromise at the Supreme Court level.

It is time for FR’s Bush critics and Bush fans to join together and fight for Judge Pickering. If you are not willing to fight for Judge Pickering today, you waive your right to complain in the future if Souter II is nominated to the Supreme Court.

Here is the best FR article to date on the Pickering nomination:

Judicial Vacancy Crisis Worsens: Thomas Jipping denounces Democrat Assault on Charles Pickering

Here's a story from the judicial confirmation archives.

Interest groups are opposing a judicial nominee down in Mississippi. In 1967, he had testified against the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan for fire-bombing a civil rights activist and worked with the FBI to investigate and prosecute other KKK members. In 1981, he represented a black man falsely accused of robbing a white teenage girl.

Since then, he initiated and coordinated a bipartisan, multi-racial group to foster race relations in his home county, chaired the county heart fund and Red Cross and March of Dimes chapters, and headed the county drug education council. He currently sits on the board of directors of the Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi and is helping develop a local program to help at-risk black youth.

This is the kind of background that should make lefties positively tingle. Prominent black leaders including a liberal Carter-appointed judge and former NAACP chapter president support the nomination. So do a former Democratic Mississippi governor and Mississippi Democratic Party chairman.

No, he's not some warm-fuzzy liberal Clinton nominee. Nor is the opposition led by David Duke. Charles Pickering, Sr., was nominated by President George W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and he's opposed by People for the American Way, the Alliance for Justice, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights who say he would "turn the clock back" on civil rights. Pretty weird, huh?

This attack signals that Senate Democrats' guerilla war against President Bush's judicial appointments has moved into Phase Three.

In Phase One, the national campaign, Senate Democrats keep overall confirmations as low as possible. No matter how high judicial vacancies climb, or how many nominees President Bush sends to fill them, the confirmation train will never more than crawl along.

In Phase Two, the regional campaign, Senate Democrats pick fights that stall confirmations to particular judicial circuits. In the Midwest, for example, Michigan Democrats Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow are blocking all seven of President Bush's appeals court nominees to vacancies in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee. They say it's over the way Clinton nominees were treated a few years ago. You'd think they would find an excuse that did not sound like second-graders in a spat about kooties, but the stated reason doesn't much matter. It's the stall that counts.

And now it's Phase Three, surgical strikes against individual nominees. These leftist groups think the judiciary is like a political cafeteria and they want the menu to include more of their favorite foods. That a judge might simply follow the law and leave the politics, liberal or conservative, to the people just doesn't compute. So they attack nominees like Judge Pickering based on their politics.

The correct way to look at judges, however, is whether they follow the law, no matter what their politics. A judge would be just as wrong to ignore the law and impose a conservative agenda as a liberal one. Judge Pickering knows the difference between politics and law, between the state senator he used to be and the federal judge he is today. That's why President Bush wants to elevate him to the appeals court and why he should be confirmed.

Unfortunately, President Bush missed a golden opportunity to bring this to the American people. In his State of the Union Address Tuesday night, he never mentioned a word about the triple-digit judicial vacancy crisis, not a word about his dozens of nominees languishing in the Senate, not a word about the vicious, misleading attacks on men like Judge Pickering.

The attack on Judge Pickering is just a signal of more to come. The far-left seeks a judiciary they can count on to deliver the political goods no matter what the people want. They are just getting their feet wet, sharpening their teeth for bigger battles to come. Three phases are just the beginning.

Without sustained public presidential leadership, they will be tough to stop and a judiciary truly independent from politics, that follows the law rather than the headlines, will be tough to achieve.

Judicial Vacancy Crisis Worsens: Thomas Jipping denounces Democrat Assault on Charles Pickering

An example of what the left has been up to based on FR posts:

Pickering Foes mount Late Push

“Civil Rights” Organizations Come together to Oppose Pickering

Senate Urged to Oppose Pickering

Judicial Confirmation Hearing Evokes Civil Rights Struggle [NYT’s Smear]

Planned Parenthood Opposes Judicial Nominee Pickering, Urges Bush to Select Fair-Minded Candidates Who Share America's Values

Federally Funded Planned Parenthood Launches All Out Attack Against Bush Judicial Nominee

Appeals Court Nominee Faces Trouble Over Cross-Burning Case

Here is a link to use when lobbying:

Communicate! Let the Sons of... [FR Effective Lobbying Links]

Here is a link to the Senate Judiciary Committee:

Senate Judiciary Committee:

[IM2Phat4U]

The left has been fine-tuning its borking machine since the election and now has it running full speed. If Pickering goes down without a fight, we will see the left expand its operations and go after more conservative judicial nominees with increased fervor.

* Call Your Two Senators today.

* If your Senator sits on the judiciary committee, you need to make sure every conservative organization in your state is activated and fighting for this nomination.

* If your Senator is on the Judiciary Committee, post a link to this on your FR State board and make sure those folks are activated.

* Contact pro-life organizations, 2nd Amendment Groups, and Homeschooling groups, and ask them to notify their members and take action.

* The left will become more bold if we simply roll over on this nomination. Also, Bush will be less inclined to nominate conservative judges if the Left is able to bork them with ease.

Senate Judiciary Committee:

[IVote2]

Surely this deserves a BTTT

[IM2Phat4U]

Let's go Ohio. Call DeWine's office and make sure is going to lead the fight for Pickering against Schumer, Kennedy, Biden and Leahy!

Senator Mike DeWine contact info:

140 Russell Senate Building, Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2315 

Fax: (202) 224-6519 

TDD: (202) 224-9921

Casework Hotline (please, Ohio citizens only): 1-800-205-OHIO

• Below is the office list of addresses and phone numbers:
  • Washington, D.C. Office
    140 Russell Senate Building
    Washington, DC 20510
    Phone: (202) 224-2315
    Fax:  (202) 224-6519
    TDD:  (202) 224-9921

   

  • Casework Office:
    Senators DeWine and Voinovich
    37 West Broad Street, Suite 300
    Columbus, OH 43215
    Phone: (614) 469-6774
    Fax:  (614) 469-7419
    Casework Hotline:  1-800-205-OHIO

   

  • Xenia, Ohio Office:
    265 South Allison Avenue, Room 105
    Xenia, OH 45385
    Phone:  (937) 376-3080
    Fax:  (937) 376-3387

   

  • Cincinnati, Ohio Office:
    312 S. Walnut St., Suite 2030
    Cincinnati, OH 45202
    Phone:  (513) 763-8260
    Fax:  (513) 763-8268

   

  • Cleveland, Ohio Office:
    600 East Superior Avenue, Room 2450
    Cleveland, OH 44114
    Phone:  (216) 522-7272
    Fax:  (216) 522-2239

   

  • Columbus, Ohio Office:
    37 West Broad Street, Suite 300
    Columbus, OH 43215
    Phone:  (614) 469-5186
    Fax:  (614) 469-2982

   

  • Marietta, Ohio Office:
    121 Putnam Street, Suite 102
    Marietta, OH 45750
    Phone: (740) 373-2317
    Fax:  (740) 373-8689

   

  • Toledo, Ohio Office:
    420 Madison Avenue, Room 1225
    Toledo, OH 43604
    Phone: (419) 259-7536
    Fax:  (419) 259-7575

140 Russell Senate Building, Washington, DC 20510
Phone: (202) 224-2315 

Fax: (202) 224-6519 

TDD: (202) 224-9921

Casework Hotline (please, Ohio citizens only): 1-800-205-OHIO

[Leptopus]

What we need is a pledge drive. People pledging to give $X to Republican Senate candidates every time the liberals do something unethical to try and block one of Bush's nominees.

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[steve50]

I don't expect the gun grabber DeWine to be of any help. Can't hurt to try I guess.

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[IM2Phat4U]

DeWine is an interesting RINO. Probably the only statewide office holder to back McCain, he is a strong pro-lifer. Voted against the Boy Scouts and FOR the gay lobby.

Nevertheless, he needs to feel some heat.

He may start moving back to the right now since he and Jim Petro both want to be Governor and the conservative wins in Ohio GOP primaries.

[MeekOneGOP]

Operation Counter-Bork: Freepers Must Act Now
to Save Nomination of Conservative Judge

Excerpt:

The left has launched an all out attack on President Bush’s Judicial Nominee, Judge Charles Pickering, and it is time to fight back.

If the liberals can successfully bork Judge Pickering, they will be emboldened and begin targeting other Bush nominees for destruction.

Of course, this is also a warm up for the big one - - Bush’s nominee to the Supreme Court. If we start losing battles to the left’s borking-machine, Bush may feel the need to compromise at the Supreme Court level.

It is time for FR’s Bush critics and Bush fans to join together and fight for Judge Pickering. If you are not willing to fight for Judge Pickering today, you waive your right to complain in the future if Souter II is nominated to the Supreme Court.
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[IM2Phat4U]

What we need is a pledge drive. People pledging to give $X to Republican Senate candidates every time the liberals do something unethical to try and block one of Bush's nominees.

Exactly. The Conservatives response to EMILY's List.

[xzins]

I'm convince that the best solution to the nomination crisis is a bold series of recess appointments that are renewed recess by recess.

This strategy yields these results:

1. It immediately fills the void with justices whose rulings are just as legal as if they'd been confirmed by the Senate.

2. It puts the Senate on notice that they are forfeiting their right to have a say. A reasonable climate of discussion would allow the President to send moderate conservatives instead of hardline conservatives. It would allow the Senate opportunity to influence. This current unreasonable climate and a worsening shortage mean that President Bush will be forced BY NECESSITY to use recess appointments. That NECESSITY will sell from the bully pulpit.

3. It enables the Republicans to await the next Senatorial (2002) campaign to see if they regain a majority in the Senate. If so, then all the recess appointments can be made final.

4. It even enables the Republicans to strike once again in the 2004 campaign. One thing the Florida recount fiasco taught us was that the Senate is seated PRIOR to the new president assuming office. So EVEN IF GW Bush is defeated, but the Republicans win the Senate in that year, then the judicial committee, chaired by Republicans, can do a mass acceptance of all prior recess appointments.

5. If GW Bush gains a second term, and he doesn't gain a Republican Senate, he can continue playing the recess appointment game. We could have conservatives on the court for up to seven years....to include the Supreme Court. And he would have two more opportunities to regain the Senate and make them permanent.

6. If he never gains Senate consent and steps down from being president after a period of conservative judicial decision-making, then those decisions will have taken hold in the nation and their reversal would then take a new democratic president time to reverse. There would be a great store of appointments that could then be made by a democratic president, but who would ever be able to predict when the Senate would be reversed to the Republicans and this who thing could start over again.

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