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THE SENATE filibuster agreement guaranteeing up-or-down votes for most judicial nominees creates a test for conservatives who rail against judicial activism. For decades, conservative politicians have objected to the use of the courts to bring about liberal policy results, arguing that judges should take a restrained view of their role. Now, with Republicans in control of the presidency and the Senate, President Bush has nominated a judge to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit who has been more open about her enthusiasm for judicial adventurism than any nominee of either party in a long time. But Janice...

  Thursday, Nov. 6, 2003 Sharpton Urges Democrats to Stop Obstructing Justice Brown Hooray for Al Sharpton, for showing he's not just some Jesse Jackson-like puppet reciting lines from the Democrat establishment's script. Sharpton on Wednesday urged Senate Democrats not to filibuster President Bush's nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, the nation's second-highest federal court. Brown, who has the nerve to be a conservative black woman who follows the U.S. Constitution in her rulings, is under vicious attack from all the usual intolerant groups of left-wing hatemongers. "I...

Washington, DC 11-4-03 As the unprecedented filibusters of President Bush’s judicial nominees in the U.S. Senate continue to multiply, Republican Senators struck back hard against the Democrats this morning in a Capitol Hill press conference. The purpose of the event was to rally support for the President’s nomination of California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals; a nomination that has garnered yet another filibuster threat from Senate Democrats. Phyllis Berry Myers of the Centre for New Black Leadership (CNBL), who helped to organize today’s effort, said, “This is the first salvo in our...

October 25, 2003 Out of the Mainstream, Again f the many unworthy judicial nominees President Bush has put forward, Janice Rogers Brown is among the very worst. As an archconservative justice on the California Supreme Court, she has declared war on the mainstream legal values that most Americans hold dear. And she has let ideology be her guide in deciding cases. At her confirmation hearing this week, Justice Brown only ratified her critics' worst fears. Both Republican and Democratic senators should oppose her confirmation. Justice Brown, who has been nominated to the United States Court of Appeals for the...