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Senate Dems Schedule Hearing For D.C. Circuit Nominee Patricia Millett
Senate Dems Schedule Hearing For D.C. Circuit Nominee Patricia Millett
Senate Democrats moved Monday to schedule a confirmation hearing for Patricia Millett, one of President Obama's three nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The hearing will be on July 10, said Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), saying Millett "should have broad bipartisan support."
It comes as top Republicans are attacking President Obama for trying to fill vacancies on what is widely considered the second most powerful federal court, and which often settles disputes about executive power. They argue that the court's caseload means the vacancies need not be filled, a claim that Democrats scoff at.
"It is disappointing," Leahy said in an afternoon statement, "that the same Republican Senators who said during the George W. Bush administration that the D.C. Circuit should have 11 filled judgeships, and who voted to confirm President Bush’s nominees for the ninth, tenth, and eleventh seats, now, when there is a President of the other party in the White House, say that those seats should not be filled."
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Full article here: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/senate-dems-schedule-hearing-for-dc-circuit-nominee
Senate Democrats moved Monday to schedule a confirmation hearing for Patricia Millett, one of President Obama's three nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The hearing will be on July 10, said Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT), saying Millett "should have broad bipartisan support."
It comes as top Republicans are attacking President Obama for trying to fill vacancies on what is widely considered the second most powerful federal court, and which often settles disputes about executive power. They argue that the court's caseload means the vacancies need not be filled, a claim that Democrats scoff at.
"It is disappointing," Leahy said in an afternoon statement, "that the same Republican Senators who said during the George W. Bush administration that the D.C. Circuit should have 11 filled judgeships, and who voted to confirm President Bush’s nominees for the ninth, tenth, and eleventh seats, now, when there is a President of the other party in the White House, say that those seats should not be filled."
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Full article here: http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/senate-dems-schedule-hearing-for-dc-circuit-nominee
And below is a link to BS OP-ed by Orrin Hatch (R-UT) from two day ago...
Sen. Orrin Hatch: Judges confrontation a made up fight
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/16/court-nominees-vacancies-orrin-hatch-editorials-debates/2428853/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/06/16/court-nominees-vacancies-orrin-hatch-editorials-debates/2428853/
The 'the D.C. Circuit has the lowest caseload in the country' argument doesn't fly.
It is true they do have less cases but the cases they do have are more complex and take much more time.
The Republicans had no problem with filling all of the D.C. Circuit seats when a Republican was president,
now all of sudden when we have a Democrat in the White House their tune has changed!
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