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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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To: kcvl
A Hostile Takeover: How The Federalist Society is capturing the federal courts
81 posted on 03/11/2003 6:27:52 AM PST by Ben Ficklin
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To: aristeides
Let's hope! Especially since it was my idea.
82 posted on 03/11/2003 7:36:55 AM PST by Grand Old Partisan
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To: EternalVigilance
If Dick Cheney and the Republican leadership had the courage to make such a ruling---one that would be perfectly in keeping with constitutional principles and the vast bulk of Senate tradition---they would go down in history as heroes.

And the American people would laugh while the Democrats screamed...


THEY SURE SCREAMED TODAY....and smeared like rats they are..
83 posted on 03/11/2003 11:15:26 AM PST by TLBSHOW (The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate......)
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To: kattracks
Good, just do it!
84 posted on 03/11/2003 11:17:16 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: TLBSHOW
I was asleep when you were posting the heads up. Frist is on now, sounds like he may have grown some 'nads;^)
85 posted on 03/11/2003 12:16:38 PM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: EternalVigilance
Now that's an idea! Hmmm, I wonder???

LOL, nah... I have a feeling I would only lower the standards of decorum when I walked across the aisle and tried to shove a book down Pelosi's throat and gave Dashole a steel toed leather enema.

But God wouldn't that be fun to watch?
86 posted on 03/12/2003 1:02:29 AM PST by Rasputin_TheMadMonk (Yes I am a bastard, but I'm a free, white, gun owning bastard. Just ask my exwife.)
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