CA Coalition Condemns Repubs Manufacturing Judicial 'Crises' in US Senate (Dems Gone Crazy Alert!)

PRNewsWire, Who Else ^ | 11/12/03 | Unsigned

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LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- "Tonight, we will see one of the most shameless displays of partisan politics when Senate Republicans will stop all business on the US Senate floor to carp about a completely fictional 'judicial crisis'," said Susan Lerner, chair of the Committee for Judicial Independence and a leader of the Justice for All Project, a statewide coalition of groups which supports a fair and balanced judicial nomination process and opposes the confirmation of Californians Carolyn Kuhl and Janice Rogers Brown as federal court judges.

"The vacancy rate for federal judges is the lowest it's been in more than a decade - under 5%," Lerner continued. "That's lower than the unemployment rate.

Instead of stopping the nation's business to whine that Brown and Kuhl aren't getting job promotions, the Senate should be focusing on the more than 3 million Americans who don't have a job.

We're grateful that Senators Boxer and Feinstein are dedicated to insuring that federal judges are committed to justice for all, rather than wanting to guarantee that the confirmation process is merely a rubber-stamp for the president's extremist choices."

"We here in California are very familiar with Janice Rogers Brown and Carolyn Kuhl and the way they allow their extremist ideology to influence their judicial decisions," said Ted Wang, Policy Director of Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco. "That's why so many California organizations oppose their confirmations as federal judges and support the filibuster of their nominations in the US Senate. We are pleased that our elected representatives understand how extreme these two nominees are. Both Senators Boxer and Feinstein oppose their confirmation and 22 members of the California Congressional delegation stated their opposition to Brown's confirmation in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee."

"These repeated 'judicial crises' we hear about are the result of ruthless political manipulation by the right wing. When Bill Clinton was President, Senate Republicans created a judicial vacancy crisis by refusing to give 60 judicial nominees -- more 30% of Clinton's judicial nominees -- up-or-down votes," Douglas Mirell, immediate Past President of Progressive Jewish Alliance and another leader of the Justice for All Project said. "Of those 60 nominees, 20 of them were women. President Bush has had 168 of his judicial nominees confirmed - a 98% success rate, several of whom Progressive Jewish Alliance and the Justice for All Project vigorously opposed. It's time for the Senate to return to the urgent job of addressing America's critical social and economic problems."

List of California Groups Opposing Kuhl and Brown Confirmation Follows:

- California Organizations Opposing Confirmation of Janice Rogers Brown -

Asian Pacific Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area

Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach

Black Women Lawyers of Los Angeles

California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League

California Association of Black Lawyers

California Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO

California National Organization for Women

California Women's Law Center

Californians for Alternatives to Toxics

Chinese for Affirmative Action

Democrats.com

Environmental Defense Center

Environmental Law Foundation

Equality California

John Muir Project

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area

National Association of Women Business Owners - San Francisco Chapter

National Council of Jewish Women - California

National Council of Jewish Women - Los Angeles

National Women's Political Caucus of California

Pacific Institute for Women's Health

Planned Parenthood Golden Gate

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

San Francisco La Raza Lawyers

SEIU Local 99

Stonewall Democratic Club of Los Angeles

Unitarian-Universalist Project Freedom of Religion

Western Law Center for Disability Rights

Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles

Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project

California Organizations Opposing Confirmation of Carolyn Kuhl

Americans United for the Separation of Church and State -San Fernando

Chapter

California Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League

California Employment Lawyers Association

California National Organization for Women

California Women Lawyers

California Women's Law Center

Chinese for Affirmative Action

Democrats.com

Environmental Law Foundation

Feminist Majority

Greenlining Institute

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the Bay Area

Los Angeles County Federation of Labor

National Center for Lesbian Rights

National Council of Jewish Women/LA

Pacific Institute for Women's Health

Planned Parenthood Golden Gate

Planned Parenthood Los Angeles

Planned Parenthood Mar Monte

Planned Parenthood of Orange and San Bernardino Counties

Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties

Planned Parenthood of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo Counties

Progressive Jewish Alliance

San Diego County NOW

Stonewall Democratic Club of Los Angeles

Unitarian-Universalist Project Freedom Of Religion

Women's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project

Women's Leadership Alliance

Women's Political Committee

SOURCE Justice for All Project

CO: Justice for All Project

ST: California

SU: LEG

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For the full effect of this rant, you have to read it to yourself imaginging H!llary's voice screeching it out in front of a crowd of Rosie O'Donnell look alikes whose faces betray the central plank of liberalism: envy.

This is from PRNewsire, which means it's paid propaganda, but newsrooms in this country will reprint it verbatim as 'news'.

As Limbaugh says, "The liberals are never funnier than when they are out of power".

How crazy are they?

Look at the first sentence of the article, look how long it is. The person who wrote that sentence was very angry.

The original title of the article was:

California Coalition Condemns Shameless Republican Manufacturing of Judicial 'Crises' in US Senate

The FR posting mechanism rejected it- could it be any longer, or more inciteful of hatred?

Look at the list of the opposition... it's a damn freak show of intolerance!

My personal favorite? Democrats.com.

Now there's a brain trust!

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"The vacancy rate for federal judges is the lowest it's been in more than a decade - under 5%," Lerner continued. "That's lower than the unemployment rate.

So, the unemployment rate's, like, really low or something? :-)

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So, the unemployment rate's, like, really low or something? :-)

Good point. Manufacturing is UP under the Bush administration: Shameless Republicans Manufacturing Judicial 'Crises' in US Senate

_{Don't tell Willie Green, it will ruin his day}

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And Bush even has the Dem Senators producing more hot air per hour worked. It's a productivity miracle!

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