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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Tue May 13, 2014, 02:28 PM May 2014

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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Senate Dems Skewer Obama Judge Pick From Georgia (Original Post) Purveyor May 2014 OP
With Dems like that, who needs Republicons. corkhead May 2014 #1
say what? RussBLib May 2014 #2
The truth of the matter: okaawhatever May 2014 #3
Stop this horrible Obama nomination! blkmusclmachine May 2014 #4

RussBLib

(8,984 posts)
2. say what?
Tue May 13, 2014, 04:50 PM
May 2014

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.

okaawhatever

(9,453 posts)
3. The truth of the matter:
Wed May 14, 2014, 12:34 AM
May 2014
Boggs was "recommended" to Obama by Georgia's two GOP senators, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, as part of a deal that will let the president fill seven federal judicial vacancies based in Georgia, Carney said.

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.
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