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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (452409)	9/4/2003 10:40:38 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

AS, how much is the Kerry campaign paying you to post on the internet? Whatever it is, they aren't getting their money's worth. :)

To: American Spirit who wrote (452409)	9/4/2003 10:40:58 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush DEFEATED ONCE AGAIN! Estrada Withdraws Judicial Nomination From Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Miguel Estrada, President Bush's embattled nominee for a federal appeals court judgeship, has withdrawn his name from consideration, ending a bitter battle with Senate Democrats who blocked his nomination, administration officials said today. Estrada wrote a letter to Bush explaining his reasons, and an announcement could be made as early as today, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Estrada was one of a handful of federal judicial nominees named by Bush who became lightening rods during the Senate confirmation process, where Democrats argued they were too conservative to serve on the nation's second highest court. Republicans countered that the Democrats were biased, noting Estrada was a Hispanic. The monthslong battle came to head in July when Senate Republicans mounted a weeklong effort to get the nominations through. Democrats successfully filibustered that attempt. Bush nominated Estrada to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington more than two years ago. Senate Republicans were never able to get the necessary 60 votes to end the Democratic filibuster and get his nomination to the Senate floor for a vote. Estrada is a Honduran immigrant who graduated from Harvard Law School, served in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration and practices law in Washington, D.C. Other Bush judicial nominees to the appeals court who have run into opposition over the last few years include Mississippi jurist Charles Pickering, Texas judge Priscilla Owen and Alabama Attorney General William Pryor. Apart from Estrada, Senate Democrats are filibustering two other nominees, claiming they are too conservative to serve on the appeals court. They are Owen and Pryor. Additionally, Democrats have raised objections to Pickering, named to the appeals court, and California State Supreme Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl. Republicans have yet to seek votes on either of the two on the Senate floor. Republicans sought to make political use of Estrada's Hispanic heritage during the battle for his nomination, an effort that continued even with the withdrawal. "At root, base politics drove the Democrats' decision to deny the president the chance to someday name the first Hispanic to the Supreme Court. That is what it was all about," said C. Boyden Gray, a former White House legal counsel and now chairman of the Committee for Justice, a conservative organization that worked for Estrada's confirmation. "They did not oppose Estrada because he was Hispanic. They opposed him because he was President Bush's Hispanic," Gray said. But Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., a strong critic of the nomination, said, "We feel we have no regrets about what we've done." Republicans tried six times to win the 60 votes needed to advance to a final vote on confirmation of Estrada, but Democrats blocked them each time. In Estrada's case, Democrats said they would not allow a final vote until the Justice Department released internal memos he had written while serving in the office of the solicitor general in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. Several former solicitors general sided with the administration, Republicans and Democrats alike saying the material was confidential internal working documents. CC