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By Feddie Posted in Circuit Courts — Comments () / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

The B'ham News lays the smackdown on the obstructionist dems re: Judge Bill Pryor's renomination to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in this excellent editorial, noting, inter alia, that:

All Feinstein and other Senate Democrats have to do is quit relying on the distorted information of the liberal special-interest groups fighting Pryor's judicial nomination and talk to some Alabama Democrats.

. . . .

The truth is, Pryor would make a fine judge, and has shown that in his time on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals following a recess appointment by President Bush.

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 10-8 to recommend Pryor for a lifetime seat on the appeals court, but Democrats again are promising to filibuster his appointment. Republicans have threatened to change the Senate rules to keep a minority party from being able to stall voting on a president's judicial nominees, although Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said he didn't think Pryor's nomination will trigger the fight.

Regardless, there's no valid reason Pryor shouldn't be appointed to the post. The Senate, in its constitutional role of "advice and consent" to the president, should confirm him.

(cross-posted at Southern Appeal)