Senate Confirms Bush Judicial Nominee Crotty

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Crotty, an attorney who has worked with top Democrats and Republicans, on Monday became the first of President Bush's 20 renominated judicial nominees to win Senate confirmation.

On a bipartisan vote of 95-0, the Republican-led Senate approved Crotty for a seat on the U.S. district court in the state of New York.
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Seven of the renominated candidates were among the 10 filibustered judicial hopefuls. The others were left hanging when the previous Congress ended last year.

Democrats have long pushed for a Senate vote on Crotty, saying they were ready to make him the 205th Bush judicial nominee to be confirmed. Most of the other renominated judicial candidates are expected to face a Senate fight.
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"Mr. Crotty's nomination demonstrates that when President Bush wants to appoint non-ideological judges to the federal bench, he can get a Senate consensus to do so," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=8148228&src=rss/ElectionCoverage

[MaineDem]

1. How will the GOP spin this one?

205 Bush nominations have been approved. And yet they whine over 10.

[kliljedahl]

2. That's a much higher percentage

than they gave Bubba, but then Repukes don't know that, They'll still rant about the "obstructionists" & the Bushco drones will eat it up.


http://www.kliljedahl.net