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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (44111)	5/3/2005 9:30:53 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 173976

A conservative group accuses Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and the liberal group People for the American Way of distorting a Congressional Research Service report to leave the impression that judicial filibusters have been common over the years. The Committee for Justice, which defends and promotes what it calls constitutionalist judicial nominees, said yesterday that Mr. Reid, Nevada Democrat, falsely suggested that there have been 35 filibusters of executive branch nominees between 1949 and 2002, including 17 for judgeships. PFAW says there were 30, including 13 judicial nominations. In fact, there was only one case of a filibuster — President Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to be chief justice — the conservative group said. Mr. Reid and the liberal group came up with their numbers by including cases where opponents of a nominee were unable to mount a filibuster — the Senate voted to end debate. The Committee for Justice cited language from the Congressional Research Service report that it would be "incorrect," "erroneous" and a "misuse" of CRS data to equate cloture attempts with actual filibusters.