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GOP to 'load' Senate with votes on judges
Washington Times ^ | 3/11/03 | Amy Fagan and Stephen Dinan

Posted on 03/10/2003 10:31:30 PM PST by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:01:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Republicans plan to respond to the stalled nomination of Miguel Estrada to a federal appeals court by calling for votes on other contested judicial nominees, leaving Democrats facing the prospect of conducting concurrent filibusters on multiple nominees.

"We're going to load that calendar with judges, and the pressure will build to move these judges, and that ultimately will come," said Sen. Larry E. Craig, Idaho Republican and a member of the Judiciary Committee, last week after his party lost a cloture vote on Mr. Estrada.


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1 posted on 03/10/2003 10:31:30 PM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
sounds good
2 posted on 03/10/2003 10:37:18 PM PST by rwfromkansas (Soli Deo Gloria!)
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To: kattracks
Bump
3 posted on 03/10/2003 10:40:16 PM PST by maui_hawaii
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To: rwfromkansas
"We're going to load that calendar with judges, and the pressure will build to move these judges, and that ultimately will come," said Sen. Larry E. Craig...

Music to my ears!

I was fortunate enough to have a brief conversation with Senator Craig about this subject last month, and this is not a man with any illusions. He understands the nature of the opposition, and isn't the least bit afraid of them.

Go get em, Larry!

4 posted on 03/10/2003 10:44:53 PM PST by EternalVigilance (God Bless Idahoans!)
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To: Fred Mertz
Today, the Senate will hold a debate for an hour and a half on the broader issue of whether the Constitution grants authority for a filibuster with regard to judicial nominees.

Vice President Richard B. Cheney will preside over the Senate for the debate, and there will be a special message from President Bush.

5 posted on 03/10/2003 10:46:54 PM PST by TLBSHOW (The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate......)
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To: EternalVigilance
Mine, too! Re Durbin's comments about being selective to "make a point" - the point is obstructionism, plain and simple.
6 posted on 03/10/2003 10:50:20 PM PST by Theresawithanh (A conservative from the PRC (People's Republic of California))
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To: kattracks
Well, I hope the Republicans at least try something, their current game plan isn't getting anywhere. The Democrats couldn't care less about the peoples' business, but maybe this will shame them into cooperating.
7 posted on 03/10/2003 10:50:47 PM PST by KellyAdmirer
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To: TLBSHOW
bump
8 posted on 03/10/2003 10:51:05 PM PST by maranatha
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To: Howlin
ping!
9 posted on 03/10/2003 10:52:18 PM PST by nutmeg (Liberate Iraq - Support Our Troops!)
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To: kattracks
Today, the Senate will hold a debate for an hour and a half on the broader issue of whether the Constitution grants authority for a filibuster with regard to judicial nominees. Vice President Richard B. Cheney will preside over the Senate for the debate, and there will be a special message from President Bush.
I wonder as I wander out under the skye????

Tomorrow... an interesting day lies ahead...

10 posted on 03/10/2003 10:52:46 PM PST by Robert_Paulson2
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To: Theresawithanh
...the point is obstructionism, plain and simple.

Indeed it is.

11 posted on 03/10/2003 10:53:11 PM PST by EternalVigilance (Democrats are Pointless!)
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To: firebrand; StarFan; Dutchy; RaceBannon; stanz; Cacique; Clemenza; rmlew; evilC; Black Agnes
ping!
12 posted on 03/10/2003 10:54:56 PM PST by nutmeg (Liberate Iraq - Support Our Troops!)
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Today, the Senate will hold a debate for an hour and a half on the broader issue of whether the Constitution grants authority for a filibuster with regard to judicial nominees.

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On this constitution issue that comes up here today and there is any crucial procedural questions, the Vice President can rule on it.

13 posted on 03/10/2003 10:54:56 PM PST by TLBSHOW (The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate......)
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To: nutmeg
That would tie Tommy Daschund's and the Hildabeast's socialist agenda up in knots for the rest of 2003. I don't mind seeing this filibuster blackmail scheme blow up in the Democrats' faces by forcing them to rail their voices hoarse against every single once of President Bush's judicial nominees. Hey Tommy; you and your friends Chuckie and The Swimmer asked for it and have gotten exactly what you wished for.
14 posted on 03/10/2003 10:56:19 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: The Wizard; Fred Mertz; Grand Old Partisan; Jael
fyi
15 posted on 03/10/2003 10:57:33 PM PST by TLBSHOW (The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate......)
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To: EternalVigilance; Howlin; Dog; Mo1; PhiKapMom
"We have to pick and choose our fights in order to keep our unity and make our point," he said.

I wish they would clue us in on what that "POINT" is suppose to be! That is besides trying to trash a decent man's reputation.

BTW, Ralph Neas and his cronies are a SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP.

How Ralph Neas Almost Made Me A Republican Tonight He's One Scared Member Of The Liberal Bourgoisie -- And I Like To See Fear In The Liberal Bourgeoisie

2/5/03 10:31:51 PM
Bill White

Washington, DC -- I had dinner tonight with Ralph Neas, and I can say that the man so opposes the Republicans that he almost made them sound good enough for me to join. For those who don't know, Ralph Neas is a former Rockefeller Republican -- an actual aide to one of the Rockefellers, if I recall what he told me correctly -- who is now a Democrat and buddy buddy with such folk as Teddy Kennedy. He heads a group called "People for the American Way" -- a group which cares about as much about the American Way as organized Judaism does about humanity -- and he has been leading the battle to drum up opposition to George Bush's plan to stack all the major judgeships with his nominees, overturn Roev. Wade, institute a new "state's rights", and cut taxes to boot. In fact, Mr Neas makes Mr Bush sound so far right wing that I would almost consider voting for him.

Now this wasn't a large dinner -- there were about nine or ten people there -- and I could have given Neas a hard time, but the things he said about what George Bush is planning were so good, I almost couldn't generate a question for him. Plus a lot of the discussion centered around the strategy Mr Neas has been form, with Senator Kennedy and others, to derail the Estevez nomination (almost certainly the next Supreme Court nomination), and was interesting enough that I thought it better to just listen and observe than to distract the conversation into actual argument.

Mr Neas discussed in detail the Federalist Society, and said that he believes the advisors behind George Bush have put together a plan to repeal every major Supreme Court decision since Roosevelt took us off the gold standard, to reinstitute "state's rights", to eliminate federal social programs, to overturn abortion, to end "civil rights", to reinterpret the 14th Amendment of the Constitution, and to eliminate or nearly eliminate federal taxation. He believes Bush's advisors have developed a plan to slowly starve the federal government of money until it could no longer even potentially afford to implement things like Social Security, even if it would want to in a future administration. He was persuasively scared, and I loved it.

He kept saying that America needs a national debate on this. He told about how both the Washington Post and the New York Times had repeatedly refused to print his opinion columns bringing these things together -- and it was with that line that I was forced back from the happy picture of reality he had painted to the cold hard truth, which is that George Bush is a pawn of international Judaism and international Capitalism, and that the Jewish owned media and the capitalist exploiters will keep him in power and let him reshape society as long as he acts as their servants on issues such as Israel and imperialist war.

More...

16 posted on 03/10/2003 10:59:43 PM PST by kcvl
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To: maranatha
To: Fred Mertz; Grand Old Partisan

Other candidates who may face Democratic filibuster:

Patricia Owen, another candidate for the federal appeals court in New Orleans.

Carolyn Kuhl, a California Superior Court judge nominated for a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jeffrey Sutton, an Ohio lawyer nominated for the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Deborah Cook, an Ohio Supreme Court justice who also has been nominated for a seat on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

.........

YOU JUST CAN'T BE NICE TO DEMOCRATS


30 posted on 03/10/2003 11:08 PM EST by TLBSHOW

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17 posted on 03/10/2003 11:01:47 PM PST by TLBSHOW (The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate......)
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To: goldstategop

Oh yeah...I would listen to this guy! NOT!

Under Ralph Neas's leadership the conference helped win passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, successfully fought the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court and oversaw the extension of the Voting Rights Act.

18 posted on 03/10/2003 11:03:58 PM PST by kcvl
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To: EternalVigilance

Nan Aron

19 posted on 03/10/2003 11:11:15 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
Today, the Senate will hold a debate for an hour and a half on the broader issue of whether the Constitution grants authority for a filibuster with regard to judicial nominees. Vice President Richard B. Cheney will preside over the Senate for the debate, and there will be a special message from President Bush.

Cheney is going to be there???

LOL .. Oh why do I have the feeling the Republicans know exactly what they are doing

Should be fun to watch .. that's for sure

20 posted on 03/10/2003 11:13:17 PM PST by Mo1 (RALLY FOR AMERICA - VALLEY FORGE,PA MARCH 16, 2003 1:00 PM)
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