Republican senators are apparently considering whether they should try to sue to stop the Dems from blocking their appeals court nominations. The Senate has passed most of the lower court nominations. Funny that the party in power wants to have another branch of government come in and clean up its mess for it. What leadership!
The Republicans helped make this bed and now don't want to have to continue lying in it. It was the Republican Senate that stalled approving Clinton's nominations (which were way too slow in coming from Clinton) as a matter of standard practice. In fact, that led to the nomination of the current U.S. Comptroller General (a Reagan admin official) being nominated by Clinton in a deal to speed up the process. If Orrin Hatch is frustrated because he can't ram through Bush's more radio-active conservative picks (with only 51 votes in the Senate), he has himself to blame as well as he led the Republicans here over the last 10 years with unyielding accuracy and determination. Don't play hardball and then whine when the other side does it to you.........
Its fine to keep calling for Estrada votes (4 filed attempts thus far) in hopes of scoring political points with your base, but it does nothing to get qualified judges into office. The notion of a lawsuit is laughable bluster and the discussion of it by Hatch and others show their desperation.
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