Wash Post and LA Times
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Readers have been good about posting these editorials, but to make them easier to find and highlight, I promote them to this entry. Both the Washington Post (here) and the LA Times (here) are showing some serious intellectual honesty by blasting Democrats for their obstructionism on judges. Senate GOPers ought to recognize that the time is ripe for them to make a big deal of this, even up to "shutting down the Senate." And, since both the Times and the Post were particularly strong in favor of Peter Keisler, Senate Repubs ought to put the Keisler nomination front and center in their arguments -- followed, as entry 1A, by the Conrad nomination to fix the atrocity of a Fourth Circuit that is missing five of its 15 judges.
WOW!!
by Nomination Observer
Helene White is nominated to the 6th Circuit!
Murphy is withdrawn but now nominated for an ED Michigan seat.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/04/20080415-3.html
Sounds like a "grand compromise" to me...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/04/15/politics/p12...
"Specter, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, wrote that he wants to take, or "discharge," three appellate court nominations from the committee and bring them straight to the Senate floor for a vote."
"Specter argued that the three nominations have drawn little substantive opposition.
The nominees he mentions are Peter Keisler, former acting attorney general in the wake of Alberto Gonzales' resignation, to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and two choices for the 4th Circuit: Judge Robert Conrad of North Carolina and Steve Matthews of South Carolina."
Now is the time to call Senators and demand action!