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New York Times
A Manufactured Crisis on Judges
November 10, 2003
Excerpt--
Conservative activists have been demanding that Senate Republicans do more to push through
the Bush administration's most extreme judicial nominees. So the Republican leadership is planning a 30-hour talk marathon
later this week to protest the Democrats' blocking of a handful of candidates. To up the public-relations quotient, there
may be calls for votes on three controversial female nominees. Lost amid the grandstanding about a "crisis" in judicial
nominations are the facts: 168 Bush nominees have been confirmed and only four rejected, a far better percentage than for
President Bill Clinton. ...
If all the facts came out, the public would see that
the real problems are caused by the Bush administration, Senate Republicans and the hard-driving conservative activists who,
when it comes to judicial nominations, are pulling the strings. ...
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PostGazette.com (Pittsburgh)
They could have danced all night; they talked instead
Thursday,
November 13, 2003
By Karen MacPherson, Post-Gazette National Bureau
To see the complete article, click on-- http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03317/239407.stm [This link was found on the Post-Gazette website
through a Google search on 3/18/04]
Excerpt--
WASHINGTON -- With coffee and cots on hand, the
Senate last night launched an all-night showdown over whether to permit votes on four of President Bush's judicial nominees
that have been blocked by the Democrats. ...
The focus of the debate is the Democrats' decision to filibuster four federal appeals court nominees: Alabama Attorney
General William Pryor, Texas Judge Priscilla Owen, Mississippi Judge Charles Pickering and lawyer Miguel Estrada, who has
since withdrawn his nomination. ...
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/pp/03317/239407.stm
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