Posted on 08/04/2007 10:19:59 AM PDT by LdSentinal
Sen. Dianne Feinstein's tiebreaking vote for a controversial judicial nominee of President Bush has dismayed civil and gay rights advocates and prompted one California Democratic congresswoman to threaten to oppose any plans Feinstein has to seek re-election.
"This was a test of whether Democrats were up to the task of applying scrutiny to Bush's judicial nominees," Nan Aron, president of Alliance for Justice, an association of civil rights, consumer advocates and other liberal groups, said Friday in criticizing Feinstein's vote on Leslie Southwick's nomination to a federal appeals court.
Gays and lesbians in California "are not going to be silent about this," added Becky Dansky of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, who said Feinstein had usually been a reliable ally. Feinstein said she respected her critics but disagreed with them about Southwick.
The California Democrat crossed party lines Thursday and enabled Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to prevail in a 10-9 vote that moved Southwick's nomination to the Senate floor. The former Mississippi Court of Appeals judge is seeking a seat on the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans and has become the latest flash point in a congressional battle over Bush's conservative judicial selections.
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That’s a switch.
Of course, as has been demonstrated time and again Judge Southwick’s biggest disqualification is being a white male from Mississippi.
Well, Nan, there is a difference between "applying scrutiny", whatever that means, and automatic opposition.
The queers are never silent about anything. It's always, "Look at me, me, me, me!
So what else is new?
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