Please speak out with others and add your name:
Michael Boggs is anti-choice and anti-civil rights—the sort of judicial nominee
that Senate Democrats would normally reject. But he’s on track to get a lifetime
appointment on a federal court.
Why? Because Senate Judiciary Committee
Chairman Pat Leahy continues to follow an arcane Senate tradition called "blue
slips" that have effectively given right-wing senators veto power over judicial
nominations.
Sign the
petition from CREDO and Daily Kos: End the practice of blue slips, don't confirm
Michael Boggs, and stop allowing right-wing senators to blackball President
Obama’s pro-choice nominees to the federal judiciary.
Here
is the deal with blue slips: When the president nominates a judge from a
particular state, the Senate Judiciary Committee sends a “blue slip” to the
state’s two senators—asking for their opinion. If one or both senators do not
approve, it effectively kills the nomination by blocking a hearing.
So,
for a state like Georgia—represented by two wildly anti-choice
Republicans—Michael Boggs is allowed to make it through to a vote while
pro-choice candidates are blocked. It’s not right.
Blue slips are neither
in the Constitution nor even an official rule of the Senate. This is a tradition
the Senate Judiciary chair can do away with at any time, as Republicans did, on
occasion, when they controlled both the White House and the Senate.
Sign the petition to Sen. Leahy: End blue slips and
don't confirm Michael Boggs. We need judges who will protect a woman’s right to
choose.
Keep fighting,
Chris Bowers, Daily Kos
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
This anti-choice nominee should not get a lifetime appointment
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