[Am-info] Re: [OT] Do you think Kottar-Kelley will delay ruling until a Democrat is president?

[Eric M. Bennett]

Paul Rickard wrote:

>
>     Too bad none of the president's hundred-plus judge nominees have been
>approved by the wonderful US Senate.... Might reduce that caseload a bit.
>That's something to keep in mind when you go vote, if you do - Senate
>control determines if we get open judge positions filled or not. Some on
>the list probably prefer to see all those cases bottled up than to see
>any Bush judges presiding over them. And some of us probably don't.

Apparently the Judciary Committee under the Democrats has approved 
more Bush nominees than the Republicans approved of Clinton's. 
Although it is also apparently true that Bush has made a LOT more 
nominations, so his percentage of approved nominees is much lower, I 
wonder how realistic it is to expect the Senate to spend a LOT more 
time on nominees than it did under Clinton.  Some circuits are not 
necessarily in need of judges; sometimes there is just an attempt to 
ideologically stack the deck with extraneous judges.  IF that is the 
case, should the Senate waste time on it?  I know Clinton kept trying 
to nominate judges to one circuit where the chief judge said no new 
judges were necessary.

In any event, it is not true that none of the nominees have been 
approved: (this link is odd, I can load it in Netscape 7 but I get a 
404 if I try with OmniWeb):

http://www.reclaimamerica.org/PAGES/NEWS/newspage.asp?story=972




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Cornell University, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology

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