From the WashPost: “Three more appellate court justices approved by the Senate”
The 14 Senate negotiators, who signed a two-page agreement last month, have said two other contested appellate court nominees -- William G. Myers III of Idaho and Henry W. Saad of Michigan -- will remain blocked. That is relatively small consolation, some Democrats said yesterday. "It is bitter medicine," Democratic Whip Richard J. Durbin (Ill.) said of the confirmations of Pryor, Brown and Owen. "I'm not happy with it."Since the judicial agreement, five long-stalled nominees have all been confirmed by majority votes. The Democrats might have had better luck arguing against the nominees themselves instead of expending energy on their invented redefinition of the advice and consent clause in the Constitution.
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No, the Democrats won that point. Their problem is that they have 45 votes.
And Sen. Frist was afraid to pull the trigger on the option because of how it would come back to haunt the Republicans in the 2006 elections. You can forget about it being used "extraordinarily" for the Supreme Court, a whole lot closer to those same elections.
That's a pretty funny looking definition of "won" you've got there, mister.
5 nominees that were to be opposed to the last breath in several democratic chair-warmers, are now federal judges... and the nuclear option remains available (both for now, and for the inevitable USSC fight) and has in fact been LEGITIMIZED in it's use should the democrats try to declare "extraordinary" without apparent cause.
This deal was a rout for the Democrats. The singular and exclusive benefit they got from it, was the ability to declare a momentary "victory" (defined as the avoidance of immediate defeat.)
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