Moving forward in filling the vacancies in the U.S. Courts, President Bush is resubmitting those who never came out of committee due to the Kennedy blockade via filibuster.
Pricilla Owen, a Texas Supreme Court justice whose nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has been blocked by Democrats since May 2001 and former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
This is political capital well spent. Watch the dems on the Judiciary Committee have a cow over this move, then they can show us how his nominees are incompetent and racist, if not just an incompetent racist. Some of his nominees represent minorities; black, Hispanic. This won't be perceived by the biased media as having anything to do with 'reaching out.' Create fear of an extreme right-wing cabal, who will "take away" a woman's right to choose. That is what we can expect to see.
There won't be any success story about growing up with nothing, then working hard and making the right decisions to have risin to the top of their field. No, you won't hear that side of the story. That's why I'm here.
