March 31, 2008


Orin Hatch takes the Senate Dems to task

Filed under: Democrats, Judicial Nominations
By Feddie (Email) @ 1:54 pm

for their obstructionist tactics re: President Bush’s judicial appointments.


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4 Rebel Yells to “Orin Hatch takes the Senate Dems to task”

  1. A Country Federalist Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 2:12 pm

    When Democrats were in the minority during President Clinton’s last year in office, they repeatedly insisted that 1992 provided the proper yardstick for measuring confirmation progress. The current Judiciary Committee chairman said so in at least six different speeches between March and November of 2000. Here is a typical example: “I say let us compare 1992, in which there was a Democratic majority in the Senate and a Republican President. We confirmed 11 court of appeals court nominees. . . . and 66 judges in all. In fact, we went out in October of that year. We were having hearings in September. We were having people confirmed in October.”

    Kudos to Sen. Hatch for calling out Leahy. For the past quarter century, the number of circuit court confirmations in the final Congress of a presidency has averaged at 17.

  2. A Country Federalist Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    Hit submit too early…

    The point is, the dems obstruction definitely needs to be pointed out. Sen. Specter recently did as much in a letter to Leahy:

  3. Dolly Madison Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    The Dems are also trying to defeat a district court nominee named Gus Puryear. They have enlisted Time.com and some pro-prisoner org called PCI.org.

    But there’s a great website the rebutts their allegations http://www.tnforpuryear.com. For example, they say Puryear tried to cover up an inmate death at a prison. Puryear is the general counsel for Corrections Corporation of America and defended the company when the inmate’s family sued. What the Dem’s are trying to suppress is that the Democrat, plaintiff’s trial lawyer who represented the dead inmate’s family in their suit against CCA has written a letter to the Judiciary Committee stating that Puryear acted ethically and that he support’s Puryear’s nomination. The letter and all kinds of material are on the website.

  4. A Country Federalist Says:
    March 31st, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    http://specter.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=4b26c9ce-ebc8-48ca-b906-de9e2319e7b9

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