Tomorrow: Biggest Nomination Fight of 2011

By: Curt Levey (Diary)  |  May 18th at 07:26 PM  | 

From the diaries by Erick “Unless there’s a surprise Supreme Court vacancy this year, this is the big fight of the year,” said Curt Levey, executive director of the conservative Committee for Justice. Levey and many other conservatives argue that Liu is an extraordinary circumstance. – David Ingram, Legal Times (5/17/11) This excerpt summarizes the showdown that will occur tomorrow when Senate Democrats force a | Read More »

Jack McConnell: Obama’s Anti-Business and Pro-Abortion Judicial Nominee

By: Robert Bluey (Diary)  |  May 4th at 09:40 AM  | 

A lifetime appointment to the federal bench is now selling for $700,000. At least that was the cost for Rhode Island judicial nominee Jack McConnell, who has donated that sum of money to Democrats in the two decades before President Obama tapped him for federal district court. McConnell faces a Senate confirmation vote as early as today, setting the stage for a high-stakes showdown that | Read More »