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Legal Times reports, "Stalemate Over Judicial Nominations Dampens Bush Legacy." With just about 10 months left in his term, President George W. Bush is on track to leave office with fewer of his picks on the federal bench than his fellow two-term presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan. Since 2001, Bush has had 294 district and appellate judges confirmed, but the prospect of getting many more through a Senate controlled by Democrats before Jan. 20, 2009, are slim. By comparison, Clinton and Reagan, both of whom faced similar congressional opposition in the twilight of their administrations, each left office with more than 370 of their candidates confirmed, according to Senate statistics. And Bush is running only marginally ahead of Jimmy Carter, who left office after a single term with 262 nominees confirmed...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 14, 2008 (boomark / email).