***SCHUMER ANNOUNCES SENATE FILIBUSTER ON NOMINATION OF JUDGE PICKERING***

National Review Magazine ^ | January 8, 2003 | Byron York

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LATEST ON JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS

New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer will announce this morning that he will filibuster the nomination of Judge Pickering to a place on the US Fifth Court of Appeals.

More to come later today...

Posted at 10:17 AM EST

[pgkdan]

Can't they simply get enough votes to end the fillibuster?

You need 60 votes for cloture...to end debate and force a vote. We don't have enough to prevent a filibuster, but we will have enough to end on after a day or two.

[FreeTheHostages]

Today I remind myself of that poster that says in big letters "Mistake" with a photograph of an oil tanker sinking. Then in little letters it says: "It could be that the purpose of your entire life is to simply serve as a warning to others." :)

[Mudboy Slim]

"It's the PARTY we're talking about."

Zactly...ALL DemonRATS are RACISTS!!!

FReegards...MUD

[MP5]

Good one!!!

[FreedomFlyer]

Bush made a big mistake in nominating Pickering. It's as if he wants to reinforce the Democrat message on Lott. Bush doesn't make too many POLITICAL mistakes but this is one.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Can't they simply get enough votes to end the filibuster?"

Not 'til we have some fun...LOL!!

FReegards...MUD

[Howlin]

Exactly! Let the people see "democracy" at work. :-)

[TLBSHOW]

The Democrats’ plan for politicizing judicial selections began when they huddled with leading leftists at their spring 2001 retreat to talk about changing the judicial confirmation rules. After that, Schumer chaired unprecedented hearings on using ideological litmus tests to defeat Bush nominees. Democrats defended, then ignored, nominee ratings by the American Bar Association. They considered, then ignored, support by a nominee’s home-state senators.

Mr. Jipping, J.D

[Mudboy Slim]

"It could be that the purpose of your entire life is to simply serve as a warning to others."

You are Wise Beyond Yer Years, my FRiend...MUD

[TLBSHOW]

In a November 10 editorial, the New York Times said that Senate Democrats "should not be afraid to mount a filibuster, which Republicans would need 60 votes to overcome" to stop judicial nominees. When the Times says jump, Democrats ask how high.

Republicans should frame their response to Democratic filibusters as a question of freedom. The issue is whether the people should be able to run their own country through the officials they elect.

America’s founders fought a revolution over this principle. Without the rule of law, we have no freedom. Leftists will not be able to defend letting judges rather than voters run the country.

Second, Bush should re-submit the nominations left unapproved during the 107th Congress. That includes the appeals court nominations of Charles Pickering and Priscilla Owen, who were rejected by Patrick Leahy’s Democrat-controlled Judiciary Committee. The Senate should quickly process and confirm these re-submitted nominees.

Third, Republicans should begin warning Americans of the tactics, including filibusters, to come. Public exposure may cause some Democrats to think twice.

Finally, Republicans must work more closely with activists. In an ideal world, appointing judges would not require massive grassroots campaigns, but it does today because judges have become too powerful and leftists want to capture the courts to short-circuit democracy.


http://www.humaneventsonline.com/articles/11-18-02/jipping.htm

[Mudboy Slim]

Great post...RATS are gonna be hung out to dry on these Judicial Nominees, IMHO!! Their attempts to "BORK" Conservatives is gonna become their DeathKnell...MUD

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Call up somebody in the GOP and apply for a job! You sound like somebody they could use!

I'm blushing! I learned all my strategery from studying the master- W.

[linn37]

There is no mistake about picking Pickering,he's a damn good man.

[Sacajaweau]

Schumer? Me smells Hitlery!!

[stanz]

If you recall during the election, she answered only rehearsed questions. The media gave her carte blanche when it came to how her interviews and press conferences should be handled. She could probably render a pretty good filibuster with all her options laid out in advance. As for the guts - - -she has plenty of those.

[GraniteStateConservative]

Byrd will likely support Pickering. Hollings and Miller do.

[stanz]

I'd like to sever her strings.

[Grampa Dave]

This is a great wakeup call to republicans who think that we can rest.

We need to return President Bush and Cheney to office in 2005 with at least 60 republican senators to shut down the filibusters of the Rat Lefties like Schumer.

[Hacksaw]

Bush made a big mistake in nominating Pickering. It's as if he wants to reinforce the Democrat message on Lott. Bush doesn't make too many POLITICAL mistakes but this is one.

No. Endorsing politically correct smears only furthers the opposition. This was a good "right back at'cha " move.