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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
Actually, just the fact that her name is "Priscilla" creeps me out
Democrats give an intentional walk to Sutton to face Priscilla Owen.
Senate Democrats said yesterday they will block the judicial nomination of Priscilla R. Owen, marking the second time this year they have employed filibuster tactics to thwart President Bush's efforts to name conservatives to the federal bench.
Democrats said Owen improperly inserted personal views into decisions while serving on the Texas Supreme Court. Owen now joins Miguel Estrada, nominated for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in waiting for an end to the Senate's increasingly contentious partisan impasse over judicial appointments.
The administration scored one success yesterday when the Senate voted 51 to 42 to confirm former Ohio solicitor general Jeffrey Sutton to the Cincinnati-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit. The vote was largely along party lines.
As for Estrada and Owen, Republicans say Democrats are hurting themselves politically by working so energetically to derail prominent female and Hispanic nominees. Some GOP officials said this week that the White House has a strategy of nominating Republican women, Hispanics and African Americans for lifetime federal judgeships partly to force Senate Democrats to appear to oppose diversity if they block the conservative choices.
Thanks for the advice, Republicans. Because we all know how much you guys loooooove women, Hispanics, and African Americans. And gays. You guys just love gays. Even if they are filthy sodomites who are reponsible for bringing god's wrath down upon America.
Remember: Love the sinner, hate the fact that they exist.
Several freshman senators have been trying to find a way out of the impasse. Yesterday, one of them, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.), chairman of the judiciary panel's constitution subcommittee, scheduled hearings on what he called "reform of the broken judicial confirmation process."
Here's a simple way to reform the process: renominate all of Bill Clinton's nominees who never got a hearing.
Accept nothing less.
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