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SAHIL KAPUR MAY 28, 2013, 1:00 PM 1999
The White House intends to send three new nominees to the Senate to fill judicial vacancies on the powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, a Democratic source familiar with President Obamas plans confirmed to TPM on Tuesday.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the nominations could come this week or in the next few weeks. The source declined to address speculation about who the President might select, cautioning that those decisions have not been made yet. The White Houses aim appears to be to pick relatively non-controversial nominees so Republicans would look bad if they tried to block the confirmations.
The news of pending nominations was first reported Monday by the New York Times.
The move, along with three pending cabinet nominees also opposed by Senate Republicans, carries far-reaching implications for the Presidents agenda and is likely to fuel a high-profile battle between leaders of the two parties over filibuster rules.
The upcoming nominations will capitalize on the Senates unanimous vote to confirm Sri Srinivasan last week, the first nominee confirmed to the D.C. Circuit court since 2006.
full article
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/obama-three-nominations-dc-circuit-court.php?ref=fpa
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)bowens43
(16,064 posts)yes . we'll make them look bad...that's the ticket
LOL!
the POTUS is disaster .....
Cha
(295,900 posts)gonna need it!
thanks DV
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Then they'll look really bad when they complain.
God, what a waste.
PS Don V - You should change your subject line to "Obama plans more pandering on court nominations"
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)good news article at the White House with the actual facts.
........Republicans are taking their attempts to manipulate the federal judiciary to an entirely new level. Right as our D.C. Circuit Court nominee Sri Srinivasan was confirmed unanimously, Republicans started pushing a proposal to reduce the number of judges on the D.C. Circuit from 11 to 8, a blatant attempt to shrink President Obamas constitutional authority to fill this court. As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.......
full story here http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2013/05/29/republican-court-unpacking-plan-takes-judicial-manipulation-new-level