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Senate Strip-Search.(ISSUES & INSIGHTS)(EDITORIALS)
Law: President Bush will be lucky to get any of his appointees onto the federal bench by the end of his first term. Too bad for him? No, too bad for you.
When it comes to federal judgeships, Senate Democrats have a long list of people they don't like. Texas Judge Priscilla Owen. Washington lawyer Miguel Estrada. Mississippi Judge Charles Pickering. California Judge Carolyn Kuhl.
Now, add to that list Alabama Attorney General William Pryor.
Pryor, you see, became only the latest of President Bush's nominees to the federal court to be rejected by the Democrats.
But since they didn't have the votes to do it, they used the filibuster. It takes 60 votes to end a filibuster, but just 51 to approve a judge. To Democrats, the math was compelling.
On Friday, Pryor lost in a 53 to 44 vote. Two Democrats, Zell Miller of Georgia and Ben Nelson of Nebraska, voted with the GOP.
What's distressing isn't that Democrats might object to a nominee. That's perfectly legitimate and reasonable. But in the past, whether a potential judge was conservative or liberal wasn't the key issue.
- Catholic nominee provokes debate: democrats make Pryor's faith, not his record,...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Riga, Peter J. November 21, 2003 700+ words
...in the Senate against Pryor's nomination. These Democrats could not find any instance when Pryor refused to apply the...the litmus test for any Democrat for approval to any federal...fundamental in the eyes of Democrats is that of abortion...
- Catholic nominee provokes debate: integrity of constitution demands questions...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Gaddy, C. Welton November 21, 2003 700+ words
On Nov. 6, Senate Democrats for a second time blocked Alabama Attorney General William Pryor from attaining a seat on the...Committee's discussion of Pryor's nomination deteriorated...bench has said, as did William Pryor, "Our political system seems...
- Senate committee OKs Pryor's nomination to federal appeals court.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) July 23, 2003 700+ words
...party lines sends Pryor's nomination to the full Senate, where Democrats have vowed to block...senators to suggest that Democrats were opposing Pryor because of his Catholicism...took issue with Democrats criticizing Pryor for opposing abortion...
- Debate Over Bill Pryor's Deeply Held Beliefs; CFJ Responds to Criticism of its...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire September 2, 2003 700+ words
...were very much on the Democrats' minds when questioning Pryor. Sen. Hatch asked about...RESPONSE: Again, the Democrats made Pryor's religion relevant...Republicans are making is the Democrats' standard for Pryor would seem to apply logically...
- Senate committee OKs Pryor's nomination to federal appeals court.(Chicago...
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Greenburg, Jan Crawford July 23, 2003 700+ words
...party lines sends Pryor's nomination to the full Senate, where Democrats have vowed to block...senators to suggest that Democrats were opposing Pryor because of his Catholicism...took issue with Democrats criticizing Pryor for opposing abortion...
- Too extreme or ... too Catholic? Pryor nomination puts religion to the...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Feuerherd, Joe August 29, 2003 700+ words
...Judiciary Committee Democrats pounced, and not only on abortion. Pryor was questioned and criticized...day" at the park and Pryor didn't want his children exposed to it. Pryor's record and rhetoric, Democrats charged, made a lifetime...
- Pryor's problems: federal appeals court nominee with record of hostility to...
- Magazine article from: Church & State Leaming, Jeremy September 1, 2003 700+ words
...committee hearing, at which Pryor's allies accused his critics...toward his religious beliefs, Pryor's nomination went to the floor...blocked by a filibuster led by Democrats. The roiling debate over Pryor commenced not long after President...
- Constituents looking for clone of Pryor. (Arkansas Senator David Pryor)
- Magazine article from: Arkansas Business Treadway, Tyler May 1, 1995 700+ words
...AFL-CIO, says he and Pryor have "had our differences...s fearful of losing Pryor's seat to anyone who...than moderate, be it a Democrat or a Republican. But...none of the time. Democrats in the Arkansas delegation...Dale Bumpers or David Pryor." In the Pryor Mode...
- Page scandal is finding place in battles between Texas hopefuls: Pryor, who had...
- Newspaper article from: Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX) October 6, 2006 700+ words
...has handed Texas Democrats a tailor-made...None can match Will Pryor's firsthand knowledge...than this?" Mr. Pryor asked Thursday...of the child." Democrats accuse House Speaker...ago over veteran Democrat Martin Frost, analysts...The Sessions-Pryor race is hardly the...
- U. Arkansas: Hutchinson defeated early, Pryor wins seat.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire November 7, 2002 700+ words
...student working on the Pryor election campaign...change," Ashmore said. Pryor's win in Arkansas...two more seats and the Democrats losing two, the balance...lot of places for the Democrats," Story said. Pryor will be the second man...
