Conservatives Worry About Court Vacancies

[maddezmom]

By Robert Barnes and Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, June 10, 2007; Page A04

A White House failure to move quickly to fill judicial openings around the country is fueling concern among conservative allies that President Bush may miss an opportunity to use his final months in office to continue putting his stamp on the federal judiciary.

Bush enjoyed great success in installing conservative jurists in his six years in office, from district court judges to his two nominees to the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

But in the closing months of his administration, Bush faces what University of North Carolina law professor Michael J. Gerhardt calls the "double whammy" of a Senate controlled by Democrats on one hand, and senators of his own party determined to play a greater role in judicial selections on the other. In the background is a ticking clock.

Bush has named only five nominees for 13 vacant seats on the nation's influential courts of appeals -- there will be more vacancies this summer -- and moved to fill only 21 of 37 district court openings. Lawmakers and activists on both sides of the aisle see the door to new nominees being slowly shut as the administration moves into lame-duck status.

more:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/09/AR2007060901134.html

[drm604]

1. Yea George, WTF?

Let's get moving again on the court packing. We've been working on it for decades and now, when we're nearly at our goal, you STALL! WTF? :sarcasm:

[EST]

2. Yeah, Georgie, get cracking!

There may be a few tiny areas you haven't totally fu*ked up, yet. It sure points out that, lacking a compliant, complacent, conniving and corrupt rubber stamp congress, the problem of getting more idiots like Bork and company through confirmation might present a wee hassle.

[opihimoimoi]

3. Bush has been a mega disaster in everything he does...naming judges is one of them

Stall the dude...he is unfit to nom anyone

[DeSwiss]

4. Yeah, he's sent up five nominees who ALL suck....

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/judicialnominees/elrod.html">Jennifer W. Elrod
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/judicialnominees/keisler.html">Peter D. Keisler
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/judicialnominees/kethledge.html">Raymond M. Kethledge
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/judicialnominees/murphy.html">Stephen J. Murphy
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/judicialnominees/southwick.html">Leslie H. Southwick



White House Judicial Nominees:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/judicialnominees/

K&R!!! :)