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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject12/2/2003 10:41:21 AM
From: PROLIFE  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
WHY IS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IGNORING THIS?

Back to the Democratic Party attempts to prevent George Bush from putting any conservative judges in prominent positions in Federal Appeals Courts.

You remember Michael Estrada, don't you? The Democrats successfully prevented a confirmation vote on his nomination so many times that Estrada finally got fed up and withdrew his name from consideration. The only reason the Democrats could come up with to filibuster Estrada's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals was that he refused to release some private memos he had written when he was a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Bear in mind .. no previous nominee had been required to release such memos, but the Democrats did need some sort of excuse to block Estrada .. so the memos served that purpose quite well.

Now we know better. Someone has leaked some Democratic strategy memos from the Senate Judiciary Committee. Those memos discuss the necessity of blocking Estrada's nomination to the bench. So ... why were the Democrats blocking Estrada? Because, as the leaked memos said, "he is Latino and the White House seems to be grooming him for a Supreme Court appointment."

There you have it. Documentation from a Democratic staffer on the Senate Judiciary Committee saying that a nominee for an appeals court judgeship is being blocked because of his ethnicity. Can you just imagine what would be happening if this had been Republicans blocking a nomination because of the nominees ethnicity? Democrats would be calling for hearings, an investigation, and resignations. The New York Times and the Washington Compost (thanks, Ollie) would be hammering it on page one for days on end. Rather would be absolutely beside himself. As it is, the story is being ignored. This may have been the first you heard about it.

Who is protecting whom out there?

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