Bush is the most successful president in getting Federal Judges approved.

[papau]

Bush is the most successful president in getting Federal Judges approved. The facts makes the Dem rejection of extremely right wing judges – only letting medium to far right wing judges through – look like a wimpy policy.

"The vacancy rate on the federal bench is at its lowest point in 13 years, because of a recent surge of judges nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate," writes David Savage of the Los Angeles Times. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/politics/la-na-judges6nov06,1,5833088.story?coll=la-news-politics-national Vacancy Rate on Federal Bench Is at a 13-Year Low The Senate has confirmed 68 of Bush's nominees this year. Experts say partisan complaints over four judges blur the picture.

By David G. Savage, Times Staff WriterWASHINGTON — The vacancy rate on the federal bench is at its lowest point in 13 years, because of a recent surge of judges nominated by President Bush and confirmed by the Senate.The intense partisan battle over a handful of judges aside, Bush has already won approval of 168 judges, more than President Reagan achieved in his first term in the White House. And with 68 of his nominees winning confirmation in 2003 as of Wednesday, President Bush has had a better record this year than President Clinton achieved in seven of his eight years in office. <snip>

Experts who track federal judgeships say Republican complaints about a Democratic filibuster of four judges have obscured the larger picture."The Bush administration has been spectacularly successful in getting the overwhelming proportion of its judicial nominations confirmed," said political scientist Sheldon Goldman at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. "There are only a relative handful being filibustered and held up. And this contrasts with the dozens of Clinton nominees who were held up by the Republicans in the last six years of the Clinton administration. The truth is the Republicans have had an outstanding record so far." <snip>

The Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee lists 39 vacancies among the 859 seats on the U.S. district courts and the U.S. courts of appeal — a 4.5% vacancy rate.This is the fewest number of vacancies since 1990. During Clinton's term in office, the number of vacancies on the federal bench was never fewer than 50, according to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.."During Clinton's final six years in office, Republicans controlled the Senate, and they refused to confirm more than 60 of his judicial nominees<snip>

[library_max]

1. The reason Bush has had so many confirmed

is that the Republicans blocked so many of Clinton's, leaving an unusual number of vacancies for Bush to fill. This isn't evidence of Democrats being wimps, it's evidence of Republicans being bastards. The facts to support this are right there in the article cited. Also, if you go back only 13 years, that doesn't even get you all the way back to Reagan - not much of a historical comparison, basically just shows that Bush has done better than Clinton.

[ProudDad]

2. This also means...

We're SCREWED for the next 2 decades at least as far as the Judiciary is concerned...

:nuke:

[T Wolf]

3. need a link to stats on

number nominated and confirmed by year of presidency.

The LA Times just gives the number confirmed. The more appropriate statistic would be percentage of nominees confirmed. This would show, I am sure, that repuke noms get in much more than Democratic ones.

[Lefty48197]

4. That just shows how much the Republicans lie

aren't they always whining that the Senate Democrats are blocking whole bunch of judges, and letting more and more criminals roam the streets? Yup, lying is what Republicans do best.