To: The United States Senate
No More Obstruction - Demand the Senate Confirm the President's Judicial Nominees
People For the American Way
It's time to take down the blockade on the three nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals -- Cornelia Pillard, Patricia Ann Millet and Robert Leon Wilkins.
Republican senators need to end the obstruction and allow the president's well-qualified judicial nominees to receive up-or-down confirmation votes. Democrats need to play hardball and use every tool in their toolbox.
Republican senators need to end the obstruction and allow the president's well-qualified judicial nominees to receive up-or-down confirmation votes. Democrats need to play hardball and use every tool in their toolbox.
Why is this important?
On October 31, Senate Republicans outrageously continued their unprecedented obstruction of President Obama's judicial nominees by filibustering Pattie Millett, the first of three pending nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to be brought up for a vote. With the exception of only two GOP senators -- Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska -- Republicans signaled with this vote that they would use partisan obstruction tactics to keep the incredibly important D.C. Circuit stacked disproportionately with ideological right-wing judges.
This is an abdication of senators' constitutional duties fueled by nothing but politics, and it must stop.
This is an abdication of senators' constitutional duties fueled by nothing but politics, and it must stop.