{"id":2143,"date":"2009-11-17T11:25:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T16:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=2143"},"modified":"2009-11-17T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T16:27:55","slug":"democrats-have-a-problem-with-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/2143\/democrats-have-a-problem-with-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Have a Problem with Judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans spent the last eight years trying to ensure an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,77667,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">up-or-down vote<\/span><\/a> for their judicial nominees.\u00a0  Democrats, for the first time in history, decided to take the extraordinary step of filibustering all of the nominees that they deemed \u201cout of the judicial mainstream.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic standard for mainstream: \u2018We don\u2019t like them and we\u2019ll do everything possible to keep them off the bench.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Now, Democrats are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-judges16-2009nov16,0,1183259.story\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">having problems<\/span><\/a> with the judicial confirmation process, even though they hold <a href=\"http:\/\/senate.gov\/pagelayout\/history\/one_item_and_teasers\/partydiv.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">60 seats<\/span><\/a> in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Today the Senate will hold a cloture vote on the nomination of Judge David Hamilton to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.\u00a0  Senate Republicans are currently mulling political payback and will likely filibuster Judge Hamilton\u2019s nomination.\u00a0  If successful, Hamilton\u2019s nomination will wind up just like dozens of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,77667,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">blocked judges<\/span><\/a> during the Bush Administration.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Democrats, too, have a problem with judges.\u00a0  What goes around comes around in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans spent the last eight years trying to ensure an up-or-down vote for their judicial nominees.\u00a0 Democrats, for the first time in history, decided to take the extraordinary step of filibustering all of the nominees that they deemed \u201cout of the judicial mainstream.\u201d The Democratic standard for mainstream: \u2018We don\u2019t like them and we\u2019ll do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[507,508,506,505,38],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cloture","tag-david-hamilton","tag-democrats","tag-republicans","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2145,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}