Looks like Obama has his Harriet Miers judicial nomination

[Hawaii Hiker]

Progressives are angry about the pick for a seat on a Georgia District Court, and from the looks of his record, can't blame them....The nominee is Michael Boggs....Actually, he was the choice of GA's 2 republican senators, in a deal struck w/the White House to allow 11th Circuit nominee Jill Pryor thru, who has been held up 2 yrs now...Deal also allowed couple OTHER District Court nominees thru and a Circuit Court seat chosen by Chambliss/Isackson....Simply put, it was a lousy deal by the White House....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/evanmcsan/abortion-rights-group-takes-on-obama-over-judicial-pick

[VanillaRhapsody]

1. Harriet Miers was a Supreme Court pick....big difference...

are you also comparing him to George Bush?

[Hawaii Hiker]

2. No, not comparing Obama to Bush

just making the observation that just like the GOP was disappointed in W's pick for a judicial seat, progressives are disappointed in this pick...

And if you look at Michael Boggs' record, he definitely fits the bill for a judicial nominee ------ for a Republican President....Liberal groups should abhor this choice...

[VanillaRhapsody]

3. They may...but this IS Georgia after all...just sayin'

It would be more surprising if it were say Vermont.

[1StrongBlackMan]

5. But I do not recall the GOP ...

being disappointed with W nominating meiers, though she was non-confirmable to the SCOTUS.

Further, a four for one trade where the Administrations get three more important courts than the "bad" nominee ... doesn't sound like a bad deal to me, especially when one considers whoever the Georgia Senators would give the nod.

[MADem]

11. +1 It is a bad analogy. nt

[Tx4obama]

4. The 'outrage' regarding the Georgia nominees has been going for awhile now...

Check out all three DU threads below...

Dec 23, 2013 - Here: http://upload.democraticunderground.com/1014680975

January 2013 - Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024289883

And another January thread with lots of comments too, here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024266548

[Thinkingabout]

6. I may be wrong but I think the nominations to District Courts comes from senators in

the state and I seriously doubt the Republican Senators in Georgia is going to summit a liberals name. We need to get Democrats elected.

[Hawaii Hiker]

7. While the senators will submit names for District Court seats, ultimately its Obama's choice

and he should have just said no thanks on Boggs.....

[Thinkingabout]

8. Do you think these republican senators was ever going to nominate a liberal for

this position?

[freshwest]

9. Well...

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

13. Not so fast....

There is a tradition of Senatorial Courtesy where the President does get approval from the state's Senators. Now this is rarely observed when the Senators are from another party, but there are two things in play here. The first is that Obama got a handful of judges through to confirmation, and the second is that we have a Democratic candidate for the Senate who was leading in the polls just a few weeks ago, and we also have an incumbent Republican Governor who hasn't registered above 50% in ANY poll during the past year.

If Obama nominates someone against the wishes of Georgia's two Senators, you know the drill. It's "feet on the desk" all over again for weeks on Fox News. It's Obama being a dictator, it's Obama being worse than Stalin, it's Obama having sex with livestock. Who the hell knows what's going to come out of those idiots. And all that will hurt chances of Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter.

Getting several judges confirmed and giving the party a fighting chance is worth a lousy pick for the GA District Court.

[Hawaii Hiker]

14. The best thing that could happen is let Boggs have his hearing, clear the Senate Judiciary Committee

then be defeated on the senate floor...Maybe it will be a 48-52 defeat, figure Pryor, and/or Manchin could vote for him...

[whistler162]

12. Shhhh.... must not interrupt a good poutrage

by pointing out this was the same process that got Justice Sotomayor appointed to the District Court in New York by President GHW Bush.

[JoePhilly]

15. Its always fun to come to DU and see what the Daily Outrage is.

They should have a special section on the home page for "Today's Outrages".

[blkmusclmachine]

10. Obama's numerous other far right appointments, TX & UT, all appologized away by his cheerleaders.

[TheKentuckian]

16. The TeaPubliKlans will bet huffy if be doesn't nominate their wackos! It's tradition (that can be

ignored when the positions flip but never mind that)!

Plus it was six for one (never you mind about the make up of the six either, just assume it is a win)!