So it seems to me three of the judges are going down

[xray s]

The deal sends a loud message that these two are not acceptable to the Gang of 14;

Part I: Commitments on Pending Judicial Nominations

B. Status of Other Nominees. Signatories make no commitment to vote for or against cloture on the following judicial nominees: William Myers (9th Circuit) and Henry Saad (6th Circuit).

And Republican Seantor Graham of SC is openly stating that one of the other three judges will be voted down by the full Senate.

So we defeat three judges, the WH is warned by some of its own that they WILL NOT rubber stamp everyone and the filibuster remains intact.

Dobson is having a conniption fit over the whole deal

Now tell me again, who won today?

[bububjones]

1. wow.

which ones will be voted on, though? (Sorry, I'm a bit confused.)

[nankerphelge]

2. Owens, Brown, & Pryor

Looking at excerpts from salon.com, here's who we could get for lifetime appointments; I'm think Pryor might get blocked though:


1. Pryor once called Roe vs. Wade "the worst abomination of constitutional law in our history"; in 2002 he argued in the Supreme Court, on behalf of Alabama and four other states, for states' execution of mentally retarded inmates; he termed the Voting Rights Act "an affront to federalism and an expensive burden that has far outlived its usefulness"; and he affirmed in 2003 that extending the civil rights of same-sex couples would logically extend to activities like necrophilia and bestiality.

2. Brown has denounced President Franklin Roosevelt's Supreme Court as transforming the Constitution into a "significantly different document," and the Democratic New Deal as the triumph of "our own socialist revolution."

3. Owen hired Karl Rove to run her first campaign for the Texas Supreme Court, where she has served as a justice since 1995. Her opinions thus far on the Texas court suggest strident opposition to reproductive rights, workers' rights, civil rights, consumers' rights and environmental protection. Of special note has been White House counsel Alberto Gonzales' criticism of Owen as trying to implement "an unconscionable act of judicial activism" when they served on the Texas Supreme Court together, for interpreting a parental-consent statute to please antiabortion interests. Owen has proposed a particular view that abortion law be interpreted with a "religious awareness" standard. Owens' hometown newspaper the Houston Chronicle has editorialized that Owen is "less interested in impartially interpreting the law than in pushing an agenda."

[mmonk]

3. eeney, meeney, minee moe

which of one these judges from hell should go?