Our
friends at the Committee for Justice keep
the judges issue on the forefront of our minds. Excerpt:
Has Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy no
shame when it comes to judicial nominees? We’ll find out in the coming months
by watching whether he continues to deny a committee vote to D.C. Circuit
nominee Peter Keisler, a former Assistant Attorney General at the Justice
Department. Never mind that Keisler was nominated to the D.C. Circuit two years
ago and testified to rave reviews at his Judiciary Committee hearing in August
2006. Sadly, we’ve become all too accustomed to such outrageous delays since
Senate Democrats announced plans to block judicial nominees for purely
ideological reasons back in 2001.
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