Two Judges Face the Heat [Estrada - Owen]

Roll Call via National Republican Senatorial Committee ^ | 4-28-03 | Roll Call - Mark Preston and Paul Kane

[deport]

Did they say what time tomorrow?

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at some point this evening they should post a schedule for tomorrow on the Senate web site

[Dolphy]

Oh yes, I think they can debate this issue just as they have been. I meant, if they went 24/7, the Dems will use that against them by saying that the Republican senate is interested in only tax cuts for the rich and extremist judges while the economy and health care suffer. On the other hand, come election time, it would be interesting to for the Republicans to be able to say that x number of times the Senate obstructed votes on nominees that would have been confirmed had the entire Senate been allowed to vote.

This is a delicate game that's going on. The Republicans can't muscle their way through, but they can't be out muscled by the minority either. They need to keep it alive and make the Dems pay at some point. The truth is that Bush needs to make good on and associate himself with issues that will get him a second term...then he will have 4 years to work on the courts.

[nickcarraway]

So far the Dems make it look like Estrada is stonewalling. Why can't the GOP point out that there is such a thing as the 6th Ammendment, even if the Dems have never heard of it.

[ez]

Let them deny cloture on four or five Bush judges and by the end of next year just keep bringing them to the floor over and over in rotation so that is all that's going on. All the while harp on ONE PHRASE..."The Democrats in the Senate will not give the President's nominees a fair up or down vote."

[yoe]

The democrats are terrified of judges who will read and rule by law and respect the United States Constitution. They would rather have a Janet Reno who will circumvent the law and rule from the bench as all socialist judges are doing. The Ninth Circuit Judges should all be removed from the bench for using non-legal transgressions to support their biased and often lawless points of view.

Phone or fax Senator Frist, turn the heat up to hold a REAL FILIBUSTER i.e., everyone who is against the nominees, make them stay until they drop – no week-ends and no recesses just stand there and filibuster. If it is proved unconstitutional, then declare it so. Either a supermajority is constitutional or it isn’t; Frist should demand the constitutional one.

[deport]

It maybe that there will be some four or more that are being denied an up/down vote in the Senate if this keeps going.... We may have Estrada, Owen, Pickering for sure and then maybe another one or two. If that turns out to be the case then it will make for good campaign fodder in a few months....

I have no idea where the Republicans are heading and what their strategy will be.

[hoosiermama]

BUMP for later

[votelife]

great source of articles.

how do you link articles with titles to a post?

[votelife]

ping me to any live filibuster threads!

[votelife]

I have never heard of Prado...is a lib/moderate?

This bears repeating:
The Dems want Prado brought up so they can confirm him and get the Hispanic lobbies off their back as they continue to block Estrada.

Estrada FIRST. Then we'll talk.

[votelife]

I hope Freepers understand that it may be in Bush's best hands to "sit" on Estrada until say October 2004 (Sept '04 is national security month) and than in October, oh yeah, Tommy Daschle won't let Estrada have a vote!

Still, we need to keep pressure on the Senate both GOP and Dem to support Estrada.

[deport]

Sutton is being voted on at this moment........

[votelife]

I'd guess Sutton would get about 55 votes...
Great he's being obstructed. Now the Dems are letting a conservative white through, but the conservative Hispanic will just have to go to the back of the line!

[votelife]

This article says Bush should appoint Bork as a recess appt to the Supremes if the need arises to get the Dems to back down!

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-barnett042903.asp

[DED]

I can't claim to know much about him, other than he's Hispanic and the Dems are willing to confirm him. A bio and resume are found on this site: http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/prado.htm
I have been referring back to a site that had very lengthy commentary on the history of the various controversial (according to Senate Democrats) cases by nominee, but now I can't find it. It was something like judicialnominations.org, if you have an idea what I'm thinking of, please give me a URL. I've already tried google, with no success.

[votelife]

I'm just guessing that they like him bc he's not conservative or they don't view him as a threat or something like that.

[deport]

Sutton is confirmed by the Senate

Yeas……52
Nays….. 41

[votelife]

looks like some key Dems didn't want to go on record so they can have it both ways.

[votelife]

roll call?