GOP Judges Write Senators Asking Them To Stop Obstructing President Obama’s Judges

[butterfly77]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/20/gop-judges-letter/

Earlier this week, seven Republican-appointed federal judges co-signed a letter warning of the consequences of the GOP’s systematic obstruction of President Obama’s judges. The letter from the Judicial Council of the Ninth Circuit, which includes Republican appointees Alex Kozinski, Ralph Beistline, Vaughn Walker, Irma Gonzales, Frances Marie Tydingco-Gatewood, Richard Frank Cebull, Lonny Ray Suko, explains:

In order to do our work, and serve the public as Congress expects us to serve it, we need the resources to carry out our mission. While there are many areas of serious need, we write today to emphasize our desperate need for judges. Our need in that regard has been amply documented (See attached March 2009 Judicial Conference Recommendations for Additional Judgeships). Courts cannot do their work if

[ccharles000]

1. Its good that some republicans can think.

[southern_belle]

2. k & r n/t

[butterfly77]

3. This is why many things can't get done..

Bush packed the courts when he was in they also have a problem in the justice department..

[DemocraticPilgrim]

4. They'll ignore it nothing less than the collapse of the US will make them happy. that's why we ..

have to help the President night and day. He has it hard enough without his own side taking him apart.

[JTFrog]

5. kick

[Supersedeas]

6. whaaat!?! a bipartisan gesture from the Judiciary branch--what would Alito and Scalia say?