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Faced with a lack of pertinent information and an uncooperative administration, Senate Democrats should not take their filibuster power lightly. They are right in their efforts to block the judicial nomination of Miguel A. Estrada to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and they should use every constitutional means necessary...
...There is no question that in terms of general credentials Estrada meets and well exceeds any reasonable qualifications, but his career has been marked by cases well outside mainstream American legal thought,” Vladeck said...
...Estrada fails to meet the CHC’s evaluation criteria for endorsing judicial nominees,” Caucus Chair Silvestre Reynes said...
Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Estrada immigrated to the US with his family as a teenager...
...Estrada graduated magna cum laude from HLS in 1986, where he edited the Harvard Law Review. From 1990 to 1992, he served as assistant U.S. attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of NY. In 1992, he joined the U.S. Department of Justice as an assistant to the Solicitor General...