Changing Senate Rules + Far-Right Judges = The end of choice?
There may not be a retirement yet on the Supreme Court, but make no mistake, the battle is here. Anticipating several vacancies on the Supreme Court during the president's second term, anti-choice U.S. senators are working on an anti-democratic power grab that will grease the skids for Bush's out-of-touch judicial nominees. How is it happening now?
Changing Senate rules Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) is hard at work trying to change Senate rules to take away the Senate's constitutional right to review and oppose judicial nominees -- a tactic called the "nuclear option" for good reasons. This abuse of power gives pro-choice senators virtually no chance to block President Bush's ideologically out-of-touch nominees.
Support from anti-choice alliesFrist's "nuclear option" is key to putting a conservative majority on the Supreme Court. Even the far-right organization The Center for Individual Freedom admits, "Our future hopes for a conservative Supreme Court depend upon Frist and the Republicans in the Senate having the political will to exercise the Constitutional Option."
Bush's extremist judicial nominationsPresident Bush is doing his part packing the courts with out-of-the-mainstream judges. Just last month, Bush re-sent 20 judicial nominees to the Senate for confirmation -- seven of whom had already been rejected by the Senate for their opposition to personal privacy and civil rights. Among these were anti-choice conservatives Priscilla Owen, William H. Pryor, and Janice Rogers Brown.
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
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