Re: OT: Political


davk...@xxxxxxx wrote:
> dancerchris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > By the way David, it is ironic that you bring Hamilton's federalist
> > paper on this into play as the Democrats have hardly been "though in
> > general, a silent operation." There has been all kinds of politicizing
> > of this process and it is a new precident set by the left. Priscilla
> > Owens was confirmed for the appellate court only after much noise from
> > the left. This whole process of filabustering the process to promote
> > the lefts ideological view of justice selction is quite out of hand and
> > frankly I think the right should have used the "nuclear option". If
> > they had we might have a better candidate selected than Miers.
> >
> > Chris Brown
> > Camarillo, CA
>
> Chris:
>
> I have posted several times in this forum that I object to the
> politicization of the judicial nomination process. My problem with
> your formulation is that you blame this on only one side, the "left".
> Truth is, when President Clinton was in office, the "right" (read:
> Republicans) did not hesitate to block numerous judicial apointments he
> made. Because they were in the majority, they did not have to
> filibuster; they would simply refuse to give the nominee a hearing or
> to hold a confirmation vote. Hundreds of his nominees were thus
> obstructed and did not get that up or down vote that the Republicans
> now claim is constitutionally required. On several occasions, in fact,
> the most conservative Republicans did filibuster, including famously
> the nomination of Richard Paez to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
> The filibuster was defeated by a bipartisan vote, but no Republican
> Senator (nor any Democrat) claimed the ilibuster was
> "unconstitutional".
>
> Filibustering judicial nominees is not, in fact, unconstitutional in my
> opinion, though it may well be undesireable. Nevertheless, my primary
> objection to your post is its blatant hypocrisy and one-sidedness in
> attributing all of the problems with politicizing judicial nominations
> to one side of the aisle. You want to stop this kind of nonsense,
> fine, but take responsibility for what your side of the political aisle
> has done, and then promise me that none of President
> Finegold/Bayh/HRClinton's nominees to the Supreme Court starting in
> January 2009 will be obstructed from receiving an up-or-down vote
> either.
>
> David Koppelman

The last sentence should have read ..."promise me none of President
Finegold/Bayh/HR Clinton's nominees to the Supreme Court OR ANY OTHER
FEDERAL COURT will be obstructed from receiving an up or down vote
either."

David Koppelman

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