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[JudicialTyranny]

The Republican constitutional argument ignores the Fortas precedent.

Fortas was an elevation to Chief Justice - not quite the same.

19 Democrats also filibustered the Fortas elevation. So it cannot be labeled a "Republican" filibuster.

It ignores Frist's own vote in 2000 to sustain a filibuster of a Clinton judicial nominee.

What was the name of this nominee? What is he/she doing now?

 

[ThAnswr]

Fortas was an elevation to Chief Justice - not quite the same.

19 Democrats also filibustered the Fortas elevation. So it cannot be labeled a "Republican" filibuster.


What was the name of this nominee? What is he/she doing now?

Yada, yada, yada............for people like you, it never quite passes the "duck test". Oh yeah, it was a "bi-partisan" filibuster? Puhleeeeze!

Btw, how's the pony?

 

[sodaseller]

Yada, yada, yada............for people like you, it never quite passes the "duck test". Oh yeah, it was a "bi-partisan" filibuster? Puhleeeeze!

Btw, how's the pony?

What the Democrats are doing is plainly unprecedented - the Republicans have never filibustered a nominee named Priscilla before. That is a very principled difference that you are just denying

 

[peachgirl]

Fortas was an elevation to Chief Justice - not quite the same.

19 Democrats also filibustered the Fortas elevation. So it cannot be labeled a "Republican" filibuster.


What was the name of this nominee? What is he/she doing now?

Here's Frist's response trying to explain the hypocrisy of the position he now takes on filibusters..

SEN. SCHUMER: Isn't it correct that on March 8, 2000, my colleague [Sen. Frist] voted to uphold the filibuster of Judge Richard Paez?

Here was Frist's response:

The president, the um, in response, uh, the Paez nomination - we'll come back and discuss this further. ... Actually I'd like to, and it really brings to what I believe - a point - and it really brings to, oddly, a point, what is the issue. The issue is we have leadership-led partisan filibusters that have, um, obstructed, not one nominee, but two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, in a routine way.

His response was almost as good as yours!

It would appear that the Republican position is that filibustering judicial nominees is okay as long as it's Repub's doing the filibustering.

The most positive result of this compromise is that Frist is dead in the water as far as his Presidential aspirations. He didn't deliver.

 

[sodaseller]

Here's Frist's response trying to explain the hypocrisy of the position he now takes on filibusters..



His response was almost as good as yours!

It would appear that the Republican position is that filibustering judicial nominees is okay as long as it's Repub's doing the filibustering.

The most positive result of this compromise is that Frist is dead in the water as far as his Presidential aspirations. He didn't deliver.

That's very different. Paez sounds vaguely Latino and there's no evidence that he teaches Sunday School. Plus, that spot on the Ninth Circuit had to remian open for someone who recognized that Christ loves torture. If only Mel Gibson had a J.D.

 

[WilbyDaniels]

One blogger has labeled this the worst press release of all time. He may be right. CWA Says, Seven Republican Dwarves Sold Out Snow White—Left Democrats With Key to Castle

Washington, D.C. – Last night seven Republican senators cut a foolish deal with seven Democrats that left Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) holding an empty hand. Frist announced yesterday that he had scheduled a cloture vote today on Priscilla Owen, the President’s nominee to the Fifth Circuit, who’s been waiting for a floor vote for more than four years. If the cloture vote failed, Frist planned to use the constitutional option—a ruling from the Senate president, Vice President Dick Cheney, that only 51 votes are necessary to confirm a nominee.

“Instead of ending the unconstitutional use of the filibuster, the seven dwarves have handed the filibuster key to the Supreme Court Castle to the Democrats. It’s the key they want more than anything,” said Jan LaRue, Concerned Women for America’s (CWA’s) chief counsel. “They’re willing to vote for cloture on the three nominees they’ve most opposed in order to keep the filibuster for all future nominees, including the Supreme Court.”

The seven Republicans are John McCain (Arizona), John Warner (Virginia), Mike DeWine (Ohio), Lindsay Graham (South Carolina), Susan Collins (Maine), Olympia Snowe (Maine) and Lincoln Chaffee (Rhode Island).

“The deal says, ‘Nominees should only be filibustered under extraordinary circumstances, and each signatory must use his or her own discretion and judgment in determining whether such circumstances exist.’ The Republicans say that after the Democrats allow confirmation of Owen, Janice Rogers Brown and Bill Pryor, they won’t be able to call a nominee ‘extraordinary.’ Does the name ‘Charles Pickering’ ring a bell? Democrats unanimously confirmed him to the district court and then filibustered him as a racist when he was nominated to the Fifth Circuit,” LaRue added.

“Sen. Frist said the compromise is ‘short on principle’ because every nominee deserves an up-or-down vote. He’s right. It was like watching a parallel universe: Seven giddy Republicans talking mutual trust with Robert Byrd (D-West Virginia), while Harry Reid (D-Nevada) continues attacking the President and bragging about saving the Supreme Court from the radical right. The American people won’t take this lying down,” LaRue concluded.

The right winger's reaction to the compromise has been so very amusing.

 

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