Gunning For Obama's Judicial Nominees

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The New Nattering Nabobs of Negativism Are Gunning For Obama's Judicial Nominees: A Republican Strategy That We Must All Hope Fails
By JOHN W. DEAN
Friday, April 17, 2009

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20090417.html

"Their letter to President Obama spelled out another demand: "f we are not consulted on, and approve of, a nominee from our state, the Republican Conference will be unable to support moving forward on that nominee" – a thinly-veiled threat of a filibuster on any Obama nominee who fails to meet the GOP standard. In short, if a GOP senator rejects a judicial nominee for a court with jurisdiction in his state, the entire Republican Conference has agreed to join that senator to hold up the nomination. (It takes sixty votes to prevent a filibuster, so if the Republican Conference remains together, it can block any Obama nominee from confirmation.) Clearly, Republicans plan to fight any effort to change the conservative ideological make-up of the federal judiciary."

" Nattering nabobs of negativism will just say no, regardless. Hopefully voters will, in turn, say no to their obstructionism."