Senate Set to Vote on Nominee for 5th Circuit

[usregimechange]

Justice James E. Graves, Jr., Mississippi Supreme Court
Nominee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
58 Years Old


James Graves Jr. is expected to make history today when he becomes the first African American from Mississippi to be confirmed for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit.

The Senate is scheduled to vote at about 5:30 p.m. on Graves’ nomination for the court. Graves, a justice on the Mississippi Supreme Court, has bipartisan support, including from his state’s two Republican senators, and is likely to be confirmed.

Graves has been on his state’s highest court since 2001. He previously served a decade as a state trial judge after working as a lawyer in private practice and in state government.

During his confirmation hearing, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) questioned Graves’ decision to join another justice’s 2008 dissent calling the death penalty cruel and unusual. Graves said he considered the dissent merely a plea for dialogue on the effectiveness of the death penalty, and Graves later provided a list of 22 cases in which he voted to affirm a death sentence. The issue is especially important for the 5th Circuit because it hears appeals from Texas’ large death row.

http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/02/senate-set-to-vote-on-nominee-for-5th-circuit.html

[Boswell]

1. suck it Sessions n/t

[Tx4obama]

2. Graves CONFIRMED by 'voice vote'. And Davila confirmed by vote of 93-0

The Senate confirmed Graves on a voice vote.

AND

Confirmation of Edward J. Davila, of California, to be a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Californi; Confirmed: 93-0
http://democrats.senate.gov/calendar/2011-02.html

[bigwillq]

3. Cool.

:thumbsup:

[gratuitous]

4. 93-0

So, what was the major concern that held up these nominees for months on end, if they were confirmed by more than 40 votes more than a certain Supreme Court Justice received?

Have I mentioned lately how much I hate these Republican motherfuckers?