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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsChuck Schumer Announces Opposition To Embattled Judicial Nominee Michael Boggs
This is some damned good news as far as I'm concerned. Now if we can only get Leahy to abandon the archaic blue slip system for judicial nominees the world would be a much better place. Obama should have NEVER nominated Boggs.
Chuck Schumer Announces Opposition To Embattled Judicial Nominee Michael Boggs
DETROIT -- Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that he will vote against President Barack Obama's controversial judicial nominee Michael Boggs if he comes up for a vote in the Judiciary Committee.
"I've thought about it long and hard, and I'm going to vote against him," Schumer, who sits on the committee, said in an interview with The Huffington Post Thursday. Schumer was in Detroit to give a speech on immigration at the progressive Netroots Nation conference.
Boggs, who is up for a lifetime post on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, has been under attack for months from progressive groups and Democratic lawmakers over his socially conservative track record as a former Georgia state legislator. Among other issues, he voted to ban same-sex marriage, to keep the Confederate insignia on the Georgia flag and to require doctors to post online their personal information and the number of abortions they performed.
When asked why he is opposing Boggs, Schumer replied, "First, his stand on choice. But second, even though it was in his past, to do what he did with the Confederate flag -- and the Confederate flag is a symbol of slavery, it's a symbol of oppression -- I don't think someone should be on the federal bench who did that, even though he knows it might be a mistake. Those two reasons are enough for me to say no, so I'm going to vote no."
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DETROIT -- Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced Thursday that he will vote against President Barack Obama's controversial judicial nominee Michael Boggs if he comes up for a vote in the Judiciary Committee.
"I've thought about it long and hard, and I'm going to vote against him," Schumer, who sits on the committee, said in an interview with The Huffington Post Thursday. Schumer was in Detroit to give a speech on immigration at the progressive Netroots Nation conference.
Boggs, who is up for a lifetime post on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, has been under attack for months from progressive groups and Democratic lawmakers over his socially conservative track record as a former Georgia state legislator. Among other issues, he voted to ban same-sex marriage, to keep the Confederate insignia on the Georgia flag and to require doctors to post online their personal information and the number of abortions they performed.
When asked why he is opposing Boggs, Schumer replied, "First, his stand on choice. But second, even though it was in his past, to do what he did with the Confederate flag -- and the Confederate flag is a symbol of slavery, it's a symbol of oppression -- I don't think someone should be on the federal bench who did that, even though he knows it might be a mistake. Those two reasons are enough for me to say no, so I'm going to vote no."
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Chuck Schumer Announces Opposition To Embattled Judicial Nominee Michael Boggs (Original Post)
MohRokTah
Jul 2014
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MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)1. Bigger stories but this is important too kick. eom
CK_John
(10,005 posts)2. No vote in committee means nothing.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)3. Actually it means a lot.
Boggs' nomination could die in committee with enough no votes and it looks now like it is headed to a committee death.
CK_John
(10,005 posts)4. No way, a deal has already been cut I'm sure.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)5. Durbin and Franken have also announced they will vote no.
Leahy may not even call a vote because of this.