Wednesday, April 06, 2005

 

Filibustering against Ultra-conservative Judges

Democrats in the Senate will attempt to block ten of Bush's judicial nominations by mounting a filibuster. Use of the filibuster requires a 60 percent vote to confirm, rather than a simple majority. We liberal-progressives argue that most of Bush's judges have been confirmed and that the infamous ten are only about five percent of the total. Conservatives argue that we L-P's are hypocritical. We railed against the filibuster in the 1960's when conservative Southern Senators used it against civil rights legislation.


True. However, there is a difference. In the 1960's, a minority was attempting to block some reforms in federal law that the majority of the public favored. The public was opposed to intimidation and peculiar local laws that prevented Negroes from voting. These situations prevailed in many Southern States. Today a minority (the ultra-conservative-fundamentalist-Christian coalition) is attempting to foist its views on the majority of Americans through imposing ultra-conservative judges on the rest of us.


The majority prevailed in the 1960's. We think the majority should ultimately prevail today with regard to the packing of the federal judiciary with judges with extreme rightist views of the law and justice.
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