Very unkind, hurtful and uncalled for rhetoric so typical of the dem party since the advent of the clinton duo.
It's just that hillary, from the well of the senate, calling these truly good Americans who have been honored with a Presidential nomination to specific benches LEMONS, hurts all of us. But it is especially harmful and hateful towards the nominees. What kind of cruelty is this woman capable of...does she have personal MONITORING device at all? She is craven.
And kennedy, stating that our President would nominate NEANDERTHALS is a two hitter bit of hate, a hit at President Bush and a very hurtful jab at the nominees.
What are these people hoping to do....discourage and so defame these hard working, illustrious judicial nominees so that they withdraw their names like Miguel Estrada did?
Are they sending a warning note to all other judges who deserve nominations to NOT ACCEPT them because they will be villified in front of our entire nation by dem senators?
This is the stuff of a horror-the kind of thing that can bring down the judiciary and destroy our right to have truly good people sitting in judgement.
I dispise what the dems are doing...just thinking of the arrogant and haughty way mary landreiu, speaking from the well of the senate, stated to one Judge 'You are never going to sit on that bench, honey', sent chills of disgust and revulsion through me.
These dems, daily, remind me why I loathe the democrat party. Zell Miller is right-the dem party has been hijacked by very bad people.
Miguel A. Estrada
Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Miguel A. Estrada immigrated to the United States with his family as a teenager. He is currently a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he is a member of the firm's Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group and the Business Crimes and Investigations Practice Group.
Mr. Estrada graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College, New York in 1983. He received a juris doctor degree magna cum laude in 1986 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
After law school, Mr. Estrada served as a law clerk to the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then clerked for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court.
From 1990 until 1992, Mr. Estrada served as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. In 1992, he joined the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. In those capacities, Mr. Estrada represented the government in numerous jury trials and in many appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Estrada practiced law in New York with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.