"Justice for Judges Marathon" starts at 6PM tonight (they have banners)

[underpants]

Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) speaks to reporters surrounded by Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Orrin Hatch (news, bio, voting record) (R-UT), Sen. George Allen (news, bio, voting record) (R-VA) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX) (L-R) on Capitol Hill in Washington, November 12, 2003. Senate Republicans are planning to launch a 30-hour marathon session Wednesday night. REUTERS/William Philpott

[mbali]

1. Cots?

Every Senator has at least one sofa in his/her office, so what are the cots for?

Oh, that's right. Photo op.

[TheBlob]

2. Time to pull out the stats on Clinton and Bush judges approved

Anyone got this info at the ready?
I'd like to hammer the Repubs with it today.

[underpants]

4. 95% of W's have been approved

I heard that on NPR this morning.

No I don't have a link but I will see if I can find one.

[TheBlob]

7. Thanks Underpants

The specific stats between Clinton and Bush approved/blocked judges is what will shut them up.

[nostamj]

19. 98% according to Harry Reid 168/4 n/t

[jokerman93]

22. 98% according to Tom Daschel Last night on C-SPAN n/t

[underpants]

8. First article from google (lots of facts and some editorialization here)

http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0521-06.htm

Not so. To a far greater degree than the Democrats who controlled the Senate during six of the Reagan-Bush I years, the Republican Senate played relentless hardball to keep Clinton from appointing even moderate judges, especially to appeals courts.


The Republican Congress also refused to create new judgeships necessary to handle an expanding population and caseload.


Under President Carter, 152 additional federal judgeships were created. Reagan and Bush each got 85, Clinton just nine.


Under Reagan and Bush, the the Senate, then controlled by Democrats, typically approved presidential nominations to the appellate bench within three to four months.


When the roles were reversed and Republican senators were in charge, the average delay rose to more than seven months in Clinton's second term and 280 days in Clinton's last two years, according to a tabulation by the Alliance for Justice.


By the end of 2000, the Senate had confirmed only 39 of 81 pending judicial nominees and just eight to appeals courts. Forty-two were left to lapse.


By the end of the Clinton presidency, eight out of the 13 federal appeals courts were still dominated by Republican judges, and just one, the Sixth Circuit, had a narrow majority of Democratic appointees (plus four vacancies.)


While a few high-profile nominations of ultra-conservative judges by Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. were indeed killed by the Democratic Senate, there was far less blockage and delay.

[Bozita]

11. Dubya = 165 approved, 3 denied

Stats are from late last week

on edit: my info came from my best memory of Sen Leahy's press release of last week.

[DakotaDemocrat]

3. Classic line...

Tom Daschle said something like, ...the Republicans are more interested in the four people that do not have these jobs than the 3,000,000 people that don't have any...

Pretty good quote...

...Feels like the "Who's line is it anyway" skit about crazy telethons...

[CatWoman]

6. here's another thread and another great Daschle quote

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=696621

[Cocoa]

5. I bet they wish they had a black senator

it would help them with their campaign to convince us that the GOP is the party of equal rights, and the dems are racist.

[seemslikeadream]

9. The seven highest ranking Republican Senators

in the U.S. Senate are
Bill Frist
Mitch McConnell
Rick Santorum
Bob Bennett
Kay Bailey Hutchison
Jon Kyle
George Allen

Most of them are in that picture and every one of them received a scorecard of 100% from Christian Coalition. That means they voted with Christian Coalition 100% of the time.

"When we win this revolution in November, you will be doing the Lord's work, and He will richly bless you for it."
Senator James Inhofe

"There will be Satanic forces...We are not going to be coming up just against human beings, to beat them in elections. We're going to be coming up against spiritual warfare."
Pat Robertson

The ulitmate political goal of the Religious Right is to make the United States a Christian nation. The ulitmate legal goal is to make the U.S. Constitution conform to Biblical Law.

"We need to find ways to win the war" Karl Rove told a gathering of the Family Research Council in March 2002. The Family Research Council is one of the most powerful lobbying organizations of the Religious Right today. Rove wasn't talking about the war on terrorism. He was talking about the war on secular society.
www.theocracywatch.org

[underpants]

10. From democrats.senate.gov FACTS on judicial appointments

November 12, 2003
http://democrats.senate.gov/judges1.html

Since the passage of the Senate organizing resolution 15 months ago, the Democratic-led Senate has confirmed 80 judicial nominees -- that’s more nominees than were confirmed during the first 15 months of the Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Clinton Administrations.


In 2000, the Republican-controlled Senate confirmed only 39 judges, including 8 circuit judges; in 1999, only 34 judges, including 7 circuit court judges; in 1997, only 36 judges, including 7 circuit court judges; and in 1996, only 17 judges, with no circuit court judges confirmed at all that year.

When Republicans say Senate Democrats have “blocked” almost 40 percent of Bush nominees, they are including all Bush nominees that have not been confirmed – even if they were only recently nominated or their files are incomplete. In reality, of the Bush judicial nominees still pending, 60 percent have been nominated within the last four months.

More than a dozen, well-qualified Clinton nominees had to wait over 500 days to be confirmed, including nine who waited over 700 days, four who waited over 900 days, two who waited over 1,000 days, and one, Richard Paez, who waited 1,520 (that's over 4 years) days from nomination to confirmation.

[keopeli]

12. The Hon. Sen. Leahy says it well..

http://leahy.senate.gov/issues/nominations/november2003.html



Clinton Nominees 1995-2000:
Confirmed 248 - Blocked 63 - Approval rate 80%

Bush Nominees 2001-2003:
Confirmed 168 - Blocked 4 - Approval rate 98%


Leahy always gets it right. Use the numbers. I sent an email to a bunch of senators and the Democratic Petition.

[TheBlob]

18. Now THAT'S what I'm talking about!

Thanks to everyone contributing here!

[ieoeja]

13. Raw Facts from Yale

Here you will find lists for the current and previous three congresses.

http://www.law.yale.edu/library/research/nom/index_old.html

[underpants]

14. Excellent thanks to you and keopeli

:thumbsup:

[in_cog_ni_to]

15. Hahahaha!

They look like total and complete buffoons. I hope the Dems show up with banners that read "Justice for the American People".

For the numbers on the judges. When Reid was filibustering the other day he had oodles and oodles of posters pointing out the Clinton Judges that didn't even get a hearing. How many were and weren't confirmed. He also had nice posters with 168 judges approved....4 Not. I think they're well prepared to make these people look like the fools they are. GO DEMS! :bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[CO Liberal]

16. We'd Be Better Off With Justices Who Favored Justice - FOR ALL!!!

And the four blocked nominees fail that test.

[keopeli]

17. If I may, a better link to the Yale site

http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/scr/library/nom/index.asp

I believe this is the new and more recently updated page. I found it while surfing ieoeja's link.

[0007]

26. Thanks for the link...

interesting information.

[nostamj]

20. why do pukes always look so NASTY and MEAN-SPIRITED?

look at these people. if I put this pic on my fridge, all the milk would sour.

i mean, really, their shitty politics aside, they're all ugly mean people.

[0007]

24. Now we know how the word "Insipid" got put in the dictionary..

[Shakespeare]

21. They're ripping off an SEIU campaign slogan

How incredibly offensive. Do a google search on "Justice for Janitors" (and/or watch the excellent movie Bread and Roses, which was based on their ongoing campaign), and you'll see what I'm talking about.

How predictable that those fuckers would borrow from a liberal slogan in such an obscene way.

[underpants]

23. The cots are only for the Repubes

Apparently they don't know about crashing on couches and floors like most people. But not like they are elitist or anything.........

[0007]

25. Hillarious!!

Maybe Zell Miller will be sleep on one of 'em. Cuz we all know he ain't gonna talk.

[0007]

27. Goody goody Senator Durbin is on again!

I wonder who the late nite hitters are?

Is there an itinerary we could view of whom the speakers are gonna be?