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...Steorts is too young to remember much of the Clinton years, his assertion that the senate Democrats have done anything worse than Republican treatment of Clinton’s nominees fails the laugh test. Since assuming the majority eight months ago, senate Democrats have confirmed 35 district and 7 circuit court judges. By contrast, in 1996, senate Republicans confirmed just 17 judges, none of which were for the circuit courts. Moreover, the reason why Judge Ronnie White was the only Clinton nominee to be defeated by the Republican Congress was because 57 of Clinton’s nominees never even...
Finally, Steorts ought not complain about the number of judicial vacancies—during the Republican majority in the senate, judicial vacancies on the circuit courts grew by 250 percent. Steorts also claims to be “outraged” at the decision not to send Pickering’s nomination to the Senate floor after it was rejected by the Judiciary Committee. Yet the Senate has never done this for a district or circuit court nominee. While Senate leaders agreed to give floor consideration to all Supreme Court nominees, they refused to do this for district and circuit...
...fact is that Senate Democrats gave Pickering a fair hearing and decided that he did not merit a circuit court appointment because of his questionable commitment to civil rights. This process was anything but “anti-democratic,” and it was far and away better treatment than Senate Republicans gave to Clinton’s nominees. Perhaps Steorts ought to pay closer attention to his admonition for law students about writing juvenescent opinions, lest he be “clobbered over the head” with them...
Speaking before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Edelman said that his research had shown Internet filters were not actually effective—censoring far more than the potentially inappropriate sites they are intended to block...
...Rifle Association, which claimed the law “eviscerates the core protections of the First Amendment by prohibiting, on pain of criminal punishment, political speech.” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) filed a separate claim on similar grounds. The lawsuits will go before a Washington, D.C. Circuit Appeals Court before one of them most likely moves to the U.S. Supreme Court...