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WASHINGTON - Judges who have been nominated to appellate courts by President Bush face confirmation delays almost three times as long as judges nominated for the same jobs by his father, President George H.W. Bush, a new study shows. The lags in confirmations have been growing longer with each successive administration, and accelerated after Republicans took control of Congress under President Clinton, says a lengthy review of judicial confirmations by a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, John Lott. The wide-ranging statistical analysis is sure to add new fodder to the Senate battle over judicial nominations as Republicans edge closer...

As they have done to many Bush administration judicial nominees, the Democrats have accused Charles Pickering of having a "poor record on civil rights." Ostensibly because of this, they blocked his nomination from coming to the Senate floor. In response, President Bush has given Pickering a recess appointment, which allows him to sit on the appellate bench until a new Congress is sworn in next January, at which point the usual accusations of racism will start all over again. A March 28th 60 Minutes piece, reported by Mike Wallace, summarized the judge's record on race, and it so sharply contrasts...

Bill Clinton finally weighed in on the Senate Democrats' filibuster of Bush's judicial nominees: "I simply ask the United States Senate to heed this plea, and vote on the highly qualified judicial nominees before you, up or down." Bill Clinton has come out swinging against Tom Daschle's filibuster of President Bush's judicial nominees:I simply ask the United States Senate to heed this plea, and vote on the highly qualified judicial nominees before you, up or down. The only problem is, Clinton made that argument during his 1998 State of the Union speech. Now that George W. Bush is in...

TheKansasCityChannel.comState Orders Female Violent Sexual Predator Free Judges Rule Reoffense By Female Offenders Unlikely POSTED: 2:31 p.m. CST March 4, 2003UPDATED: 3:09 p.m. CST March 4, 2003 ST. LOUIS -- A Missouri appeals court Tuesday ordered freedom for an HIV-positive woman indefinitely confined as a violent sexual predator, ruling there was scant evidence proving recidivism of women convicted of sex crimes. In mandating Angela Coffel's release, a three-judge Missouri Court of Appeals panel unanimously cited expert testimony that there is less than a 2 percent chance that a woman would be a repeat sex offender. "All of the experts who...

It seems remarkable to me that the judges in the Federal Appellate Court in Philadelphia could come to the decision that they did. Obviously none of them have used a filtered internet service. Or maybe they themselves just love their porn and begin to get huffy anytime some moralistic person claims its not the best thing. Nonetheless their ruling last week that CIPA, the Children's Internet Protection Act, was too broad and would block speech that was protected was utterly ignorant. Though they are not alone. In Illinois last week, a bill that was designed to require all public libraries...