Group Chastises President Obama’s Picks For Federal Court

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Source: Georgia Public Broadcasting

ATLANTA —
Reverend Joseph Lowery was among several civil rights and political leaders calling on President Obama to rescind his slate of nominations for the Bench in the Northern District of Georgia. They held a press conference on Monday at Ebernezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.

Reverend Joseph Lowery, Congressman John Lewis and Reverend C.T. Vivian, who are all recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, say the nominations for the Northern Georgia District bench lack diversity.

The civil rights leaders also say nominee Mark Cohen worked to support Georgia’s Voter ID laws, which they say are an effort to suppress minority voting. The coalition also opposes nominee Michael Boggs, who voted in the Georgia General Assembly to keep the Confederate Emblem on the state flag.

Reverend Lowery says those nominees will threaten the state’s progress toward equality for all.

Read more: http://www.gpb.org/news/2013/12/23/group-chastises-president-obama%E2%80%99s-picks-for-federal-court

[Demeter]

1. GOOD LUCK CHANGING HIS MIND

[xocet]

2. Good luck changing to lowercase... n/t

[TheKentuckian]

3. Economic feudalists, another day at the office but nobody should have to take a Democrat to task for

this ilk.

A black Democrat? Absurd.

[iandhr]

4. Some people don't know how it works for nominations for district court.

Senators from the states recommend names to the President.

[Tx4obama]

5. Yep. And currently both U.S. Senators from Georgia are Republicans.

[TomCADem]

6. Exactly, Both Home State Senators Must Sign Off...

...or they can still filibuster nominees in their own State:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/29/us/politics/despite-filibuster-limits-a-door-remains-open-to-block-judge-nominees.html?_r=0

[Enrique]

14. yes, Joseph Lowery and John Lewis are ignorant of "how things work"

[grantcart]

18. They are probably doing it for domestic effect on trying to create blow back for the Senators.

From the article

Under the Constitution, a state's senators propose nominees to the federal bench for their state to the President.

[geek tragedy]

16. Lowery and John Lewis know that. Come on.

I think the point they would make--especially now--is that the Georgia republican senators won't blue slip anyone to the left of Attila the Hun, so pick somebody that you want and screw them. The blue slip privilege died with the filibuster.

[grantcart]

17. They only want those rules to apply to Democrats when there are Republican Presidents.

All other times its our guys all the time.

[blkmusclmachine]

7. 11-Dimensional Rope-a-dupe. One day we'll "win." Just wait, you'll see...

[treestar]

13. see posts 4-6

[Archae]

9. They miss you at Free Republic.

[sendero]

11. don't fret..

... there is a small handful of people here who will excuse any action or inaction Obama takes, no matter how Republican in nature no matter how plainly wrongheaded. I might not agree with everything you said, but it's clear to anyone with two brain cells that Holder is a hapless puppet and that history will not be kind to this Justice dept instance. It's also clear that Obama only campaigned as a progressive, he governs center right.

[geek tragedy]

12. You're making a point by chiming in your support of that rightwing troll,

but it's not the point you think you are making.

Note: stating that Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama picked Eric Holder is something only the Sarah Palin/Duck Dynasty crowd believes. Not to mention the other Darrel Issa talking points.

When you start tripping over yourself to give a thumbs up to the President's most assholish critics on the far right, you tend to discredit your own criticisms.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. The sad part is

that troll account that MiRT took care of had been around since 2006.

[sendero]

19. I blame..

.... Obama, Barack on Holder and no one else and nothing I wrote would suggest otherwise.

Holder was but one of many cabinet picks that signaled clearly that Obama was done with his campaign and now ready to move to center-right.

[geek tragedy]

20. I guess you don't pay much attention to stuff like voting rights nt

[cheapdate]

24. Yes. One more reason why conservatives and the GOP despise and demonize Holder.

[cheapdate]

23. The Justice Department under Eric Holder has aggressively defended voting rights

and has aggressively challenged attempts by GOP dominated state legislatures to limit and restrict the people's right to exercise their right to vote, which is arguably our most important constitutional right. The Justice Department under Eric Holder has been successful in many of these challenges.

Do you dispute this, or agree?

[cheapdate]

21. Darryl Issa and members of his committee made all sorts of unsubstantiated accusations

including preposterous claims about various sinister conspiracies to undermine the United States and empower our enemies. He failed to prove any of his assertions of wrongdoing after almost a year of hearings and investigations.

The Justice Department cooperated with all appropriate oversight requests and produced hundreds upon hundreds of requested documents. In frustration over his inability to find evidence to support any of the preposterous extreme right-wing conspiracy theories, Issa began to issue ridiculously broad subpoenas for documents that he (Issa) knew he had no right to request, including legally-protected grand jury material and other sensitive information whose disclosure would endanger the American people or our agents investigating open cases, as well as material that was clearly and obviously irrelevant and unrelated in any way to the investigation.

Darryl Issa is a complete prick and the Fast and Furious farce, like most all of his hearings, was another example of the worst possible kind of misuse of congress's oversight power.

Fuck trolls.

[geek tragedy]

22. Yup. The real scandal is that some 'journalists' run with stories based

on his leaks of partial transcripts etc.

[Gothmog]

25. Blame Blue Slip procedure

I have a feeling that these nominees were selected in part because they were not objectionable by the Georgia GOP senators. The blue slip procedure lets the US senators block nominees.