Help needed- "W" judicial nominations held up VS Clintons -

[hollowdweller]

Seems as though I remember TONS of Clintons judicial nominees not being given a hearing or their vacancies filled when he was in.

Does anyone know of a link or where I could find the information regarding GOP obstruction of Clinton's nominees versus the Democrats obstruction of Bush's nominees?

[papau]

1. More than 60 (over 6 years) never got hearings - much less a vote - but

our media will not recall - or if they do recall, they have managed to not find a way to include that fact in their stories to date as they reprint the GOP onstruction by Dems handouts.

In the last six years of Clinton's term, Republicans confirmed 71% of his judicial nominees - 245 in all - in contrast, Reagan and Bush Sr. had approximately an 80% success rate versus opposing party Senates (based on the February 2001 report of the impartial Congressional Research Service, as reported by Tom Jipping)

The 104th and 105th Congresses took longer than their predecessors, on average, to confirm those 374 judges - 114 and 171 days respectively per confirmed judge, compared to 120 days per judge under Reagan and 99 days per judge under Bush when facing a Democratic Senate. The average time for rejected judges under Reagan's Democratic Senate was 241 days per judge, and the average under Bush's Democratic Senate was 190 days per judge, compared to rejection times under Clinton's Republican Senate of 259 and 326 days per judge in the 105th and 106th Congresses.

There were near 80 vacancies at the end of the 106th Congress as I recall (the Senate comfirmed 77 judicial nominees during the 106th Congress).

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-judges6nov06,1,7693349.story

"The Republicans obstructed quietly in the committee," Goldman said. "If they didn't want to approve you, you just didn't get a hearing. The Democrats have obstructed through the use of the filibuster, which is very open and visible."

During Clinton's final six years in office, Republicans controlled the Senate, and they refused to confirm more than 60 of his judicial nominees.

[benddem]

2. 1/3 of all Clinton appointees rejected

only 8 of * have been turned down. And they were all appalling.

[Coastie for Truth]

3. The seat vacated by Chertoff

Clinton nominated THREE candidates for that seat and none of them even got a hearing. Santorum sat on them.

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Here is a site that might have some answers for you

Times have changed the Senate's role in advise and consent. A Democratic Senate approved over 85% of Ronald Reagain's appointees to the bench in a less partisan era, but Republicans in the Clinton administration approved of only 60% of Clinton's nominations. Now Mr. Bush would like a free pass on his nominees. Well, he won't get it. The Bush v. Gore decision awoke Democrats to the increasingly politicization of the bench, and they will guard against attempts to overturn by judicial fiat what could not be gained at the ballot box.

http://quicksitebuilder.cnet.com/sartre/TWINS/id5.html

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Here's more

The number of George W. Bush nominees confirmed (2001-2003): 168

The number of nominees blocked (2001-2003): 6

Between 2001 - 2003, Senate Democrats blocked only 3.5% of President Bush's nominees.

Between 1995-2000, under a Republican led Senate, President Clinton had 20% of his nominees blocked.

Bush nominee's that have been confirmed, so far:

RECESS APPOINTMENTS:
Charles W. Pickering Sr., Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
William H. Pryor Jr., Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit

# Roger Gregory, 4th Circuit
# Richard Cebull, MT
# Sam Haddon, MT
# William Riley, 8th Circuit
# Sharon Prost, Federal Circuit
# Reggie Walton, DC
# Barrington Parker Jr., 2d Cir
# Michael Mills, ND MS
# James Payne, OK
# Karen Caldwell, ED (eastern district) KY
# Laurie Smith Camp, NE
# Claire Eagan, ND (northern district) OK
# Larry Hicks, NV
# Christina Armijo, NM
# Karon Bowdre, ND AL
# Stephen Friot, WD (western district) OK
# Terry Wooten, SC
# Edith B. Clement, 5th Cir.
# Harris Hartz, 10th Circuit
# Joe Heaton, OK
# Danny Reeves, ED KY
# John Bates, DC
# Kurt Engelhardt, ED LA
# Julie Robinson, KS
# William Johnson, NM
# Clay Land, GA
# Frederick Martone, AZ
# C. Ashley Royal, MD GA
# Marcia Krieger, CO
# James Mahan, NV
# Callie Granade, SD (southern district) AL
# Philip Martinez, WD TX
# Michael Melloy, 8th Circuit
# Jay Zainey, ED LA
# David Bunning, ED KY
# James Gritzner, SD IA
# Richard Leon, DC
# Robert Blackburn, CO
# Cindy Jorgenson, AZ
# Ralph Beistline, AK
# David C. Bury, AZ
# Randy Crane, SD TX
# Terrence O’Brien, 10th Cir.
# Lance M. Africk, ED LA
# Legrome Davis, ED PA
# Jeffrey Howard, 1st Circuit
# Percy Anderson, CD CA
# William Griesbach, ED WI
# Joan Lancaster, MN
# John Walter, CD CA
# Cynthia Rufe, ED PA
# Michael Baylson, ED PA
# Leonard Davis, ED TX
# Andrew Hanen, SD TX
# Samuel H. Mays, WD TN
# Thomas Rose, SD OH
# Paul Cassell, UT
# Lavenski R. Smith, 8th Cir.
# Richard R. Clifton, 9th Cir.
# Christopher Conner, MD PA
# Julia S. Gibbons, 6th Cir.
# Joy Flowers Conti, WD PA
# John E. Jones III, MD PA
# D. Brooks Smith, 3rd Circuit
# Henry Autrey ED MO
# Richard E. Dorr WD MO
# David Godbey, ND TX
# Henry Hudson, ED VA
# Timothy Savage ED PA
# Amy J. St. Eve, ND IL
# David Cercone WD PA
# Morrison England, ED CA
# Terrence McVerry, WD PA
# Kenneth Marra, SD FL
# Timothy Corrigan, MD FL
# Jose Martinez, SD FL
# Arthur Schwab, WD PA
# Reena Raggi, 2nd Circuit
# James Gardner, ED of PA
# Ronald Clark , ED of TX
# John Rogers, 6th Circuit
# Stanley Chesler, NJ
# Rosemary M. Collyer, DDC
# Mark Everett Fuller, MD AL
# Daniel Hovland, ND
# Kent Jordan, DE
# James Kinkeade ND TX
# Robert Klausner, CD CA
# Robert Byron Kugler, NJ
# Ronald Leighton, WA
# Jose Linares, NJ
# Alia Ludlum, WD TX
# William Martini, NJ
# Thomas Phillips, ED TN
# Linda Reade, ND IA
# William Smith,RI
# Jeffrey White, ND CA
# Freda Wolfson, NJ
# Michael McConnell, 10th Cir
# Dennis Shedd, 4th Circuit
# John Adams, ND OH
# Robert Junell, WD TX
# S. James Otero, CD CA
# Timothy Stanceau, CIT
# Gregory Frost, ND OH
# Ralph Erickson, ND
# William Quarles, MD
# Thomas Varlan, WD TN
# Jay Scott Bybee, 9th Circuit
# William Steele, SD AL
# J. Daniel Breen, WD TN
# Theresa Springmann, ND IN
# James Selna, CD CA
# Philip Simon, ND IN
# Timothy Tymkovich, 10th Cir
# Cormac Carney, CD CA
# Dee Drell, WD LA
# Richard Bennett, MD
# Jeffrey Sutton, 6th Circuit
# Edward Prado, 5th Circuit
# Deborah Cook, 6th Circuit
# Cecilia Altonaga, SD FL
# Patricia Minaldi, WD LA
# John Roberts, DC Circuit
# S. Maurice Hicks, WD LA
# Consuelo Callahan, 9th Cir.
# L. Scott Coogler, ND AL
# Michael Chertoff, 3rd Circuit
# Richard Wesley, 2nd Circuit
# J. Ronnie Greer, WD TN
# John Woodcock, ME
# Mark Kravitz, CT
# David Campbell, AZ
# Samuel Der-Yeghiayan, ND IL
# Robert C. Brack, NM
# Lonny R. Suko, ED WA
# Allyson K. Duncan, 4th Circuit
# Louise W. Flanagan, ED NC
# Earl Leroy Yeakel, III, WD TX
# Kathleen Cardone, WD TX
# H. Brent McKnight, WD NC
# James Cohn, SD FL
# Xavier Rodriguez, WD TX
# Frank Montalvo, WD TX
# James Browning, NM
# Steven Colloton, 8th CCA
# Sandra Feuerstein, ED NY
# Richard Holwell, SD NY
# Stephen Robinson, SD NY
# P. Kevin Castel, SD NY
# R. David Proctor, ND AL
# Glen Conrad, WD VA
# Henry Floyd, SC
# Kim Gibson, WD PA
# Larry Burns SD CA
# Dana Sabraw SD CA
# Michael Mosman, OR
# Carlos Bea, 9th Circuit
# Marcia Crone, ED TX
# Ronald White, ED OK
# Phillip Figa, CO
# William Hayes, SD CA
# John Houston, SD CA
# Robert Clive Jones, NV
# Margaret Rodgers, ND FL
# Thomas Hardiman, WD PA
# Dale Fischer, CD CA
# Roger Titus, MD


source: Senate Judiciary Committe, Senator Patrick Leahy

http://www.taylormarsh.com/GOPwatch.php?page_no=6

[coreystone]

6. I Posted This Within the last hour; it may offer some info.....

on some of your quandaries!

DU Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3119217

:-)

[snippy]

7. I posted two working links earlier today but they no longer work.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1237775#1237818

http://democrats.senate.gov/dpc/dpc-doc.cfm?doc_name=fs ...

http://www.civilrights.org/issues/nominations/details.c ...

[hollowdweller]

8. Thanks to all of you all! You kick ass!!

I am a moderator of a political forum where about 90% of the people are right wing and sometimes I need help with getting the info to rebut some of their bs. I'm still outnumbered there, but having some place like the DU you can go for facts really helps. Bless Y'all!