Senate Dems Skewer Obama Judge Pick From Georgia
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democrats lambasted one of President Barack Obama's picks for a federal judgeship in Georgia on Tuesday, skewering him for his past votes on abortion and the Confederate flag.
It was unclear whether Michael Boggs' nomination to become a federal district judge in Georgia was in peril. He is now a judge on that state's appeals court.
At a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats repeatedly challenged his votes as a Georgia state legislator a decade ago. They focused on his support for measures to post information online about doctors who perform abortions and to keep the Confederate battle emblem on the Georgia flag.
At several points Tuesday, Boggs agreed with Democrats who said abortion doctors had faced attacks and threats from opponents of the procedure and that posting online information about them could jeopardize them further. He said at the time, he wasn't aware of that.
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(6,119 posts)RussBLib
(8,984 posts)At several points Tuesday, Boggs agreed with Democrats who said abortion doctors had faced attacks and threats from opponents of the procedure and that posting online information about them could jeopardize them further. He said at the time, he wasn't aware of that.
He wasn't aware of that? No way this guy should be a judge. Period.
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(9,453 posts)That compromise broke a logjam that had kept Obama from plugging openings there for three years, said Carney. Chambliss and Isakson have leverage because of the Judiciary panel's tradition of using "blue slips," in which both home state senators are informally asked to consent - checking a box on a blue piece of paper - before a nomination advances.
7 for 1? That's a decent deal. Especially when judges are routinely nominated by the State's Senators and Obama wouldn't have gotten a true Democrat nominated by Chambliss or Isakson anyway.