Senate Confirms Obama's Top Judge After Historic Filibuster Change

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Patricia Ann Millett became the newest judge on the powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals after the Senate confirmed her Tuesday by a vote of 56-38.

Millett made history for another reason: she was the first judge to be confirmed after the Democratic majority triggered the nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster for non-Supreme Court nominees late November. She faced a sustained filibuster by Republicans, who didn't contest her qualifications but argued that the court didn't need any new judges.

Millett, 50, is an accomplished Supreme Court and appellate court litigator who has worked as a lawyer in the administrations of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. She has argued 32 cases before the Supreme Court -- more than all but one other woman. Most recently she worked as a partner at the law firm Akin Gump.

The newly minted circuit judge was born in Dexter, Maine, raised in southern Illinois, graduated summa cum laude in 1985 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and magna cum laude in 1988 from Harvard Law School.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/senate-confirms-patricia-millett-dc-circuit-filibuster

[Nancy Waterman]

1. 1 down 92 to go

They need to confirm as many as possible before the next election. the GOP
is not to be trusted.

[jsr]

4. Yes. Get them all through ASAP.

[mountain grammy]

5. Yep, fill em up, and no white males for a while! Please!

[calimary]

6. ABSOLUTELY not to be trusted.

NEVER. They're scorpions. All they know is stinging. Just remember that old fable about the fox and the scorpion that wanted the fox to take him across the river on his back. PROMISED not to sting! And then guess what happened...

[JimboBillyBubbaBob]

2. Good,

let's keep this show on the road.

[calimary]

3. Good! Let's rock 'n' roll, Senate Dems!

And as for the Sore Losermen on the other side of the aisle, FUCK 'em. Fed up with 'em. Had enough! MORE than enough. Just FUCK 'em.

And why aren't they being slammed as Sore Losermen? They sure beat us up with that back during Selection 2000. I still yearn to jam that one back down their miserable throats.

[SoapBox]

7. Ditto

[NewJeffCT]

8. and, it's not like

a Republican president wouldn't be ramming ultra-radical RW judges through the Senate if they had the presidency. They'd whip up a media frenzy against "Democrat" obstruction and bully Dems into compliance.

[calimary]

9. No kidding!

If this were turned the other way around, they'd be wiping their muddy track shoes on us and telling us to shut up and take it. I'm glad the Dems FINALLY got tough about this. Hey, if Heaven Forbid the CONS do get back in command in the Senate, sure they might well be expected to change the rules so they can screw our Dems. We should just expect that kind of vindictive power-grabbing shit from them. But that does NOT mean our side should just throw away an opportunity to solve a few problems while WE are still in charge. I wish our side fought with the same kind of ruthlessness their side always does.

Taste of their own medicine. See how they like it.

[Bucky]

10. Judge Millett

highly qualified but hated by proxy. If Romney had nominated her, she'd be in by now

[Jester Messiah]

11. Keep 'em coming! [nt]