Posted on 05/11/2005 1:47:20 PM PDT by RWR8189
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Washington, DC – House Republican Conference Chair Deborah Pryce was joined by NRSC Chair Elizabeth Dole, Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, female Republican members of the U.S. House and over 100 other Republican women this afternoon to rally for a vote on two highly qualified judicial nominees.
Priscilla Owen and Janice Rogers Brown have had their nominations to the federal judiciary blocked by an unprecedented filibuster by Senate Democrats. Today’s rally called for an end to the Democrat obstruction and focused on the need to provide these two highly qualified women with an up or down vote. After the rally, Republican women from the U.S. House delivered a letter to Senate minority leader Harry Reid (D-NV) calling for an up or down vote on these highly qualified women.
“It’s important for Republican women to rally around these two very highly qualified nominees,” RNC Co-Chairman Jo Ann Davidson said. “These two women sit on their respective state Supreme Courts in Texas and California and have proven they deserve a vote in the United States Senate.”
Justice Brown has been nominated by President Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. President Bush nominated Justice Owen to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. Democrats in the U.S. Senate have thus far blocked both nominations.
Scheduled participants in today’s event included: Chairman Deborah Pryce (OH), Chairman Elizabeth Dole (NC), Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (TX), Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL), Representative Katherine Harris (FL), Representative Marsha Blackburn (TN), Representative Ginny Brown Waite (FL), RNC women leaders from across the country and many female Republican supporters from across the country.
I can't fault the Republican ladies for trying but I doubt that AP, UPI, and Reuters will even bother to show up. They might ask NOW or NARAL for a comment, however.
Washington, D.C. – Concerned Women for America (CWA) says sexist politics and exploitive racism are the real reasons the Democrats are refusing to permit votes on President Bush’s judicial nominees.
The Democrats’ memos show that Sens. Ted Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Richard Durbin (D-Illinois) conspired with special interests to block Miguel Estrada’s confirmation. Why? Because as the memos (online at fairjudiciary.com and in Mark Levin’s new book, Men In Black) explain, “he is Latino” and they did not want President Bush to elevate a Latino. Kennedy then pitched it to his caucus and told them that they did not want “to have another vote like Clarence Thomas.”
“The Democrats willingly sacrificed a stellar minority nominee in a blatant attempt to hold on to a segment of their political base,” said Jan LaRue, CWA’s chief counsel.
At a press conference on May 9, Kennedy again expressed his refusal to confirm Janice Rogers Brown, an African-American woman, to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
This nation will never be America until we free ourselves from all forms of discrimination. It is a continuing, ongoing march to progress, and we are not going to turn back by appointing judges to lifetime positions who will bring us and return us back to those days of discrimination and prejudice. And that is what we believe the decisions of two of the nominees that are coming before the United States, Janice Rogers Brown, as well as the Terrence Boyle decisions, will bring us.
“Kennedy’s pretense as a heroic advocate for the civil rights movement while refusing to allow an up or down vote on Judge Rogers Brown is hypocrisy on steroids,” LaRue concluded. “Democrats can’t stand to lose their traditional hold on the black vote. They’re trashing the reputations and distorting the records of excellent nominees and failing miserably to fulfill their constitutional duty in the process. It’s also why they’re attacking Priscilla Owen. Democrats lost the married women’s vote in the last election and they fear losing the rest of female voters in the next, if they allow the president to appoint a woman to the bench.”
Gotta love these quotes:
From http://www.neoperspectives.com/quotes.htm
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
We no longer find slavery abhorrent. We embrace it. We demand more. Big government is not just the opiate of the masses. It is the opiate. The drug of choice for multinational corporations and single moms; for regulated industries and rugged Midwestern farmers and militant senior citizens.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
The quixotic desire to do good, be universally fair and make everybody happy is understandable. Indeed, the majority's zeal is more than a little endearing. There is only one problem with this approach. We are a court.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
The public school system is already so beleaguered by bureaucracy; so cowed by the demands of due process; so overwhelmed with faddish curricula that its educational purpose is almost an afterthought.
- CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
Check out these Brown quotes.....we need this judge.....perhaps even on the SCOTUS.
If, god forbid, they continue to fillibuster Brown, how's about we run her for Senate?
If Feinstein doesn't run, I'm 100% for this idea. If she does...well, she might wanna wait.
But I bet she could win. I mean, she's won statewide before, several times, and she's a minority woman.
Good job!
The SCOTUS is precisely why they don't want this lady confirmed.
These aren't real women. Only bulldyke carpet munchers who kill their unborn qualify as women.
She is obviously far too intelligent to be a Federal Judge
Well, it seems the women at least are trying to do something about it while the rest of the GOP caves.
Definitely on the SCOTUS, replacing O'Connor.
About F-ing time. What took you gals so long?
Anyone seen the NOW group or the NAACP deligation?
Don't hold yopur breath.
Unless it is a LIBERAL...the negro and female support will not be available!
Yet another in a long line of clueless comments about the judges (and many other issues). See if the GOP "caves" tomorrow on Bolton. And see where we are with judges in another couple of weeks.
I was just about to post how I have been seeing regularly the past couple of days a well done commercial on Judge Brown and Judge Owens. Certainly not my definition of "caving."
i don't know ...i think Chuck Hagel had it right the other day...this has been a bad deal on both sides...i hope there has to be some way to settle this ...i still believe that
Thanks for the ping!
She does hit the nail on the head with her comments!
We need her as a SCOTUS judge!
MEGA Dittos to that......
Has she been nominated?
I didn't read the whole article,so I don't know if that has been covered!
The traitors Boxer and Fiensten weren't there??
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