Federal Judiciary

Specter to Obama: Renominate!

Posted on January 30, 2009
As reported by our friend Curt Levey, Arlen Specter is now pushing (http://www.committeeforjustice.com/blog/2009/01/specter-to-obama-renomin...) President Obama to renominate up to three Bush judicial nominees: Paul Diamond, Glen Conrad or Peter Keisler...

Filibusters

Posted on January 20, 2009
Gary Marx of the Judicial Confirmation Network notes in yesterday?s Washington Times that Lanny Davis' call for Barack Obama's judicial nominees to get up-or-down votes on the Senate floor seems ?strangely at odds? with his failure to speak out against Democrats? filibusters of Bush nominees and in support of Republicans? attempt to prevent filibusters via the nuclear option...

Renominate, renominate, renominate!

Posted on January 12, 2009
Is this a groundswell: http://spectator.org/blog/2009/01/12/nominate-a-bush-judge PS I thought I had just posted this, but it didn't seem to actually make it on site, so I re-posted. If it turns up twice, forgive me....

Case for Keisler

Posted on January 06, 2009
I know it's probably like spitting into the wind, but here I make the case for Obama to renominated Peter Keisler: http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/QuinHillyer/Quin-essential_cas... Then again, the Bush administration's utter failure to use its Roger Gregory olive branch to better PR effect was a huge missed opportunity that helped make it more difficult to confirm people like Keisler in the first place...

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Judge Griffin Bell, RIP

Posted on January 05, 2009
Griffin Bell was a truly great man, and he will be dearly missed by his family and friends. I was fortunate enough to meet and interview Judge Bell while working on an essay about his tenure on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which you can read here...

Welcome Back Open Thread

Posted on December 19, 2008
We were off-line for a while. So this is the Welcome Back Open Thread. All yours. . .

Weekend Open Thread

Posted on December 05, 2008
All yours...

Open Thread

Posted on November 21, 2008
Fire away.

Site Will Continue! Yea!

Posted on November 17, 2008
I have been reliably informed by Erick Erickson, major domo of ConfirmThem's excellent parent site, RedState, that this site will indeed continue as a live site. yea! Hats off to Erick. And hats off to all you readers who keep the conversation lively and erudite...

Keep This Site Going!

Posted on November 12, 2008
To Andrew, and to the proprietors at Red State: I vote to keep this site going. Even its name should stay the same, as a sort of ironic inside joke reminding everybody that we had to work this hard just to get qualified judges to receive semi-fair consideration...

A Confirmthem Blogger Goes on Sabbatical

Posted on November 05, 2008
Here's a link to Senator McCain's very gracious and moving concession speech. He said: "I call on all Americans, as I have often in this campaign, to not despair of our present difficulties, but to believe, always, in the promise and greatness of America, because nothing is inevitable here...

Confirmthem May Soon Get Another Lease on Life --- Or Not

Posted on November 01, 2008
Well, depending upon what happens on Tuesday, it appears that confirmthem may be going into some very deep hibernation pretty soon. There?s an outside chance that that will not happen, but I wouldn?t be placing any bets at this point. MAKE SURE YOU VOTE ON TUESDAY! I have been very disappointed in Obama?s campaign, and am even more disappointed about what an Obama administration would likely do to this country and the judiciary...

Courting the right message

Posted on October 29, 2008
Today at NRO, Ed Whelan has the best summation I've seen yet (better than any I've done) on what's at stake in the courts if Obama wins. Great stuff: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzAyNTQ3NGM3ODFlOGFkY2QwNmQ4ZGI1MzN...

Scary Obama Picks

Posted on October 29, 2008
An article in November?s ABA Journal, ?The Lawyers Who May Run America,? names Harvard Law Professor and Anita Hill counsel Charles Ogletree as the most likely Obama pick to head DOJ?s civil rights division. Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute explains why that prospect should concern us...

Obama Would Preserve, Protect, and Defend the Constitution?

Posted on October 28, 2008
There's been quite a lot of discussion recently about Senator Obama's 2001 radio interview endorsing wealth redistribution, and implying that the Warren Court could have gone a lot farther than it did. Anyway, here are the full, unedited radio interviews from 2001...

A Couple Items From the New Republic

Posted on October 25, 2008
Jeffrey Rosen gets at least one thing right in his article in the latest issue of The New Republic: This year, for the first time since the New Deal era, a single election really does have the power to transform the Court--at the very moment that voters, rightly concerned about the tanking economy and the war in Iraq, are looking the other way...

I'd Like to Spread a Silly Rumor

Posted on October 24, 2008
There's a silly rumor going around that Sen. Obama was born at Coast Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya and that his paternal grandmother has confirmed it. Senator Obama long ago released what is known as a short-form birth certificate from Hawaii. However, he has not released his long-form birth certificate from Hawaii...

DoJ, Home of Lefties

Posted on October 23, 2008
On Tuesday I wrote this column: http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/QuinHillyer/Quin-essential_cas..., on how and why the Ohio Sec. of State is getting away with condoning vote fraud. Turns out that I actually UNDERreported the DoJ bias in favor of Obama, http://www...

Powell Wants Obama Appointing Judges (As Does Gaddafi)

Posted on October 19, 2008
General Colin Powell is a former Secretary of State for whom I have great respect. But today he erred by endorsing Senator Obama for President. One of General Powell's stated reasons is that he "would have difficulty with two more conservative appointments to the Supreme Court...

Open Thread

Posted on October 18, 2008
And here's a Q&A with John McCain from Human Events.

Biden: Slip of the Tongue or He Just Doesn't Care?

Posted on October 14, 2008
He apparently thinks that Article I of the Constitution defines the executive branch instead of the legislative branch: I'm really hoping that Sarah Palin will be presiding over this guy in a few months. Probably not, but maybe.... Liberals like Biden and Obama do not understand that when they take a cavalier attitude toward the Constitution, they are taking a cavalier attitude toward the glue that holds this country together, and to the ideals that brave Americans have been shedding blood for over the course of hundreds of years...

Biden Lied... and Erred Politically, Too

Posted on October 07, 2008
At the Examiner today (http://www.dcexaminer.com/opinion/columns/QuinHillyer/Bidens_injudicious...), I rip Joe Biden's discourse on judges during last week's debate -- noting that his remarks were politically stupid twice over, AND that he flat-out lied...

President's Speech in Ohio Today

Posted on October 06, 2008
Here's a link to the President's speech in Ohio today. "The broken confirmation process has other consequences that Americans never see. Lawyers approached about being nominated will often politely decline because of the uncertainty and delay and ruthlessness that now characterizes the confirmation process...

Amendment Last Week

Posted on October 05, 2008
In case you missed it, the Constitution was amended last week. See here. The amendment is as follows: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and or unusual punishments inflicted. And, of course, if reasonable minds differ about constitutionality, then the five robed ones do as they please anyway...

Open Thread

Posted on September 22, 2008
The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept. --Shakespeare

Nan Aron v. Curt Levey at American U. Tomorrow

Posted on September 16, 2008
Nan Aron ? Alliance for Justice President and 20-year veteran of the judges wars ? and I will be debating what?s at stake for the federal judiciary in the upcoming election. It?s sure to be a very live debate. Details here.

Judicial Choices Important for Safety

Posted on September 11, 2008
In this excellent column in the WSJ today (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122108996856421421.html?mod=opinion_main...), David Rivkin and Lee Casey examine how the selection of judges can have a big effect on national security. Well worth the read.

2008 GOP Platform

Posted on September 10, 2008
FYI, here's an excerpt from the 2008 GOP platform: Appointing Constitutionalist Judges for the Nation's Courts Judicial activism is a grave threat to the rule of law because unaccountable federal judges are usurping democracy, ignoring the Constitution and its separation of powers, and imposing their personal opinions upon the public...

Quote of the Week

Posted on September 09, 2008
Rather than fighting to get through a rare nominee the Democrats will accept, Republicans -- and John McCain -- might better spend their energy letting voters know the score. That's from the Wall Street Journal. Hat Tip: Nomination Observer.

McCain should go a-courtin'; McConnell is glum

Posted on September 09, 2008
Today at the Examiner I make the case that John McCain has a wide-open opportunity to use the judge issue to his advantage in the campaign. (MORE, below; I don't know exactly where the break is, but please keep reading beyond the bit about McConnell and through the bit about the documentary Advise and Dissent...

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