“”””””Andrew Oldham was confirmed to the federal bench Wednesday by a 50–49 vote,”””””””””
50-49???? He must be a good pick if it was that tight.
One of Abbott’s crew?
Potentially a squishy centrist in the Bush mold.
Abbott has been a step up from Islamist Rick Perry (and sure beats the Democrats) but he is the roadblock preventing civil forfeiture reform in Texas. For that reason I would much prefer judicial picks far, far removed from him.
Can’t get better than 50-49. Every judge confirmed should be 50-49.
Excellent. That’s 23 appeals court judges confirmed with 11 more nominations to go. Obama had 55 confirmed so in 2 years, Trump will be more than halfway to his total there. We’ve got to undo the damage Obama did to the federal courts.
Here’s the deal.
Brown is not a judicial decision in any meaningful sense.
What is is, is simply a sociological/statistical analysis of segregation when then says that the future must be different as a matter of law.
The best and most honest case you can make for Brown is that it was right decision but reasoned wrongly.
Of course a real judge would say it was the wrong decision precisely because it was reasoned wrongly.
I also don’t think it is even true, technically, that Brown overruled Plessy. But I’d have to dig back in to say that with certainty.
Regardless, Brown is a travesty of judicial reasoning.
Some arguably valid legislative reasoning in there, and perhaps some data that would cause a legislator to vote for that outcome. But that’s not judicial reasoning.
And I suppose I’ll never get confirmed by the senate. :)
Not Loog.
Although after the great job he did with the Stones, we could use him...
Brown v. Board of Education should have been rejected by the Supreme Court. It was not a Constitutional issue. It is the State Constitutions that establish the public school system(s). So, it could be ruled on at the state level. It was another case of the Supremes legislating from the bench.
If the U.S. wanted to pass a law concerning public education, it should have come from Congress. Using the Courts to impose social or morality issues beyond what is designated in the Constitution is always a mistake and prevents or delays society’s self-correction.
A reminder that “moderate” Dems like Manchin and Heitkamp are not allies and need to be defeated.
I’ve looked at several articles on this and cannot find any mention of McCain voted. I would guess that it was a 49-49 tie and Pence had to break thew tie.
Here is another article. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-confirms-trump-court-pick-with-record-of-attacking-voting-rights/ar-AAAgpqO
Did McCain show up or not? Resign dude! You’re dead weight (unless you actually voted)
“leading many experts and political observers to speculate that Abbott has been unusually involved in the nomination process”
“unusually involved” what does that mean?
Are they implying his name is really Abbotskovich? LOL!
Hey, Freepers— after seeing a vote like this, gotta say that McConnel must have some redeeming qualities.