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McCain, Flake and Obama’s judicial confirmations
Aided by Republicans, Obama is remaking the federal bench
While they thought you weren’t paying attention, Arizona’s slippery and lowest regarded U.S. Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, were busying themselves on the banks of the Potomac with the confirmation of Obama’s liberal picks for federal judges.
On Jan. 11, the Arizona duo voted with the Democrats to confirm Luis Felipe Restrepo, of Pennsylvania as U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit. The Columbian-born Restrepo became a citizen in 1993. Obama is fast tracking the former ACLU prisoners’ rights lawyer up from a district court post to which he was confirmed in 2013.
Then on Jan. 19, Wilhelmina Marie Wright, was confirmed as U.S. District Judge for the District of Minnesota. Running for his sixth six-year term, candidate McCain who will be 80 by Election Day, shrewdly backed off of that confirmation, though Jeff Flake once again abandoned the Republicans to approve her nomination. The vote can be seen here. Wright’s confirmation brings the total of appellate judges appointed by Obama to 56.
In his Conservative Review commentary, Senior Editor Daniel Horowitz writes “Senate GOP Must Not Confirm Any More Obama Judges.”
“The notion that Republicans would vote to confirm more Obama judges defies logic on so many levels. This is one of the few areas where they have no excuse or lack of power to actually use their control of the Senate for good purposes. Moreover, by confirming more Obama judges, they will not only further exacerbate the growing judicial time bomb of anti-constitutional case-law, but will also prevent the next Republican president from filling those vacancies.”
Horowitz‘ piece on Wilhelmina Marie Wright refers to her as the ‘Property Rights are White and Racist’ Judge, explaining the derivation of the fitting title.
This history of Arizona’s Republican senators endorsing or confirming Democrats is a long and twisted one.
Ask yourself…if the Democrats controlled the senate, would they be voting to confirm conservative federal court nominees the way liberals get a pass from Republican senators? You know the answer. It’s time to clean house…er…senate.
Source: https://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/mccain-flake-and-obamas-judicial-confirmations/
