Justices Let Stand Bush's Appointment of Judge

"Justice John Paul Stevens, however, issued a two-paragraph statement emphasizing that rejection of an appeal does not represent a ruling on the merits of any issue raised."

Someone else must have written this for him;
where's Harry Reid been the past couple of days?

Great, now that we all know (except for the press) that the President can fill appointments during a Senate recess, they can either stay in session all the time, or accept the appointments.

I know they will complain, but who cares. Their current tactics only make them insignificant - which we all knew. Now they won't get the T.V. air time that they all crave and can go on and on and on but all I can say it Ha Ha!

I hope they fill all the vacancies at the next recess!! Supreme Court too!!!!!

And I believe that none of Clinton's appointments got out of Committee. They were not filibustered.

Clinton had no real objections with his nominees not getting out of committe.

It was a quiet truce and favor between to the 2.

If they had gotten out of committee, the GOP could, at will, just point blank vote them down, and punish anyone who swayed.

Thats why Clinton never made a big deal about them being locked in committee, it would have been embarrassing, and the GOP did not want the bad press of just voting down judge after judge.

The GOP erred, they should have voted each and every one down, and forced Clinton to appoint more conservative judges, or get none at all.

The only judge to ever be successfully filibustered before now, was Abe Fortas by LBJ, and his nomination was pulled because half the democratic party was opposed to him too. The filibuster used in his case was probably not worth it, with the GOP and a chunk of the dems opposed to him, and, ironically (or not so) one of the dems opposed to him......was Senator Byrd.

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