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...court in California. As a Reagan administration lawyer, Kuhl argued hard for tax-exempt status for the racially discriminatory Bob Jones University, and for the reversal of Roe v. Wade. Sutton and Kuhl have run up against heavy Democratic opposition, and the Dems have filibustered another appellate nominee, Miguel Estrada, for nearly two months, blocking an up-or-down vote...
...there's no doubt that with Estrada - and possibly Owen - Democrats are sharpening their skills with that weapon. And when it's a high court seat that's at stake, they hope to be battle-ready...
...filibuster Owen, whose rulings they view as being anti-worker, anti-abortion and to the right of even her conservative colleagues on the Texas Supreme Court; Republicans may try to force the issue next week. But Democrats have held strong through four GOP attempts to break their filibuster of Estrada, with accompanying charges of being anti-Hispanic, on the grounds that he?s refused to answer their questions or turn over legal memos he wrote...
...Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray, who heads a group that's run ads supporting Bush?s nominees (with fundraising help from Bush's father), complains that the Democrats have taken obstructionism to new lows. "If 51 senators want to vote down an Estrada or Sutton or whoever, they're entitled to do that," he said. "But when Democrats say you need 60 votes? - which is what's required to end a filibuster - that's beyond fair play...
...know quite how I qualified, but the Eisner nominees are decided by a panel of five professionals. These are chosen by Jackie Estrada, the award's long-time administrator, and a woman with whom you do not want to battle over "Little Lulu" trivia. The other four judges included Charles Vess, a longtime comix artist and illustrator; Jeremy Shorr, a jocular Texan who runs a comic store in Dallas; Steve Leaf, a purchasing agent for Diamond, America's largest comic distributor; and Jen Contino, a fellow web-based comix journalist. With the exception of Jen, who stayed home for personal...