Recess Judicial Appointments

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[rundy]

Urge President Bush to Make
Recess Judicial Appointments!

Send a Message To the White House TODAY!
e-mail President Bush
It's time for President Bush to take action on appointing his nominees to federal courts. According to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, 79 seats on the federal courts stand vacant today -- 27 on the U.S. Court of Appeals and 52 on the U.S. District Courts. Thirty-two of those vacancies have been designated "judicial emergencies" because of their duration and caseload.

Since May 9, 2001, President Bush has nominated 122 individuals to the fill those vacancies, beginning with a group of eleven nominees to the various circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Of that initial group, only three have been confirmed and just two of the remaining eight have had a hearing. Twenty-two nominees named to fill "judicial emergencies" are waiting for confirmation.

According to JudicialSelection.org, of the 44 nominees before the Senate Judiciary Committee, only six have had a hearing. Fourteen nominees are pending on the Senate floor.

Of these nominees, twenty-four are currently judges, including ten on the federal bench and two on state supreme courts. Two are former judges; four have clerked for Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court spanning the ideological spectrum; and in the initial group of eleven, four had argued cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, nearly seventy in combination.

The Daschle Democrats have created this judicial emergency... but President Bush has the opportunity to solve this crisis, by making "recess appointments".

Under the Constitution, the president has the right to make temporary appointments -- bypassing the usual confirmation proceedings, which have been stalled by liberals like Tom Daschle -- if he acts during the recess of the Senate.

And the Senate just left town for their August vacation.

Making recess appointments would be an appropriate challenge to the liberals like Daschle, Leahy and Kennedy who control the Senate -- and President Bush has successfully done it once before. Send a quick e-mail to President Bush urging him to utilize his Constitutional right of recess appointments, so that his nominees can get in despite the efforts by radical liberals in the Senate to usurp the nomination process.

If every one reading this bombards the White House with messages and demonstrates an outpouring of grassroots support for making Constitutional recess appointments, we can put a STOP to the Daschle Democrats' efforts to turn America's court system into a wasteland of radical left-wing judges!

We'll need a concerted demonstration of solidarity to convince President Bush to exercise this right, though. Please send your message to the President now!

(e-mail President Bush)

[rundy]

It is a great idea, BUT I don't think the Republicans have the courage or the skill to do it. None-the-less, I'm sending my e-mail today.

[jdege]

Recess appointments expire at the end of the next session - so any appointments he would make now would expire at the end of the year.

On the other hand, if the GOP takes back the Senate, he'll get who he needs appointed.

At this point, I think he's better off with the campaign issue, than the appointments.

[Utah Girl]

Thanks, I just sent an email also. I just suggested that perhaps President Bush needs to make the recess appointments on those judges who have been waiting for a year or more. I also suggested that he make recess appointments of those nominees who are languishing in limbo land. And when they make the announcements, they need to emphasize how long each person has had to wait, and then tie it to national security. There is a way to play hardball without getting personally nasty about it.

[ErnBatavia]

Hey - it worked when Clinton did it, and I'd hope the Repubs have the balls to "remind of just that" when the flack comes........Do it, Dubya.

[advocate10]

Ping, Utah.

[Utah Girl]

Well, the Senate shows no signs of working with PResident Bush on these appointments, judicial and otherwise. Daschle finally agreed a couple of weeks ago to get moving on the nominations, and what happened? Senators started putting holds on many of the nominations. I smell the hand of a hildabeast behind what is going on in the Senate. President Bush also needs to emphasize the sheer numbers of nominees moldering.

[r9etb]

Alas, I saw the headline thinking Bush actually had done it, and it turns out just to be another NewsMax opinion piece.

[ErnBatavia]

Yep - and the Republicans need to get some people in there with "blood on their teeth".....we don't have any Tip O'Neills or Dan Rostenkowskis or Ted Kennedys; this type of backstabbing bottomfeeder does indeed have a place in politics.

[Fred Mertz]

Sounds like a good idea, but I don't think Bush has the will to do it. With 70% approval ratings, I think he has the support to do the right thing.