The New York Times

April 26, 2005

Seven Blocked Judicial Nominees

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 2:24 p.m. ET

President Bush's seven blocked judicial nominees and the courts on which he would have them serve. All were nominated in Bush's first term and then renominated this year.

--Priscilla Owen, for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee, waiting on Senate vote. Democrats say the Texas Supreme Court justice is an ultraconservative activist and fault her rulings against consumers, working people and minors who want abortions. She was one of Bush's first judicial nominees after he won the White House.

--William H. Pryor Jr., for the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Bush gave the former Alabama attorney general a temporary recess appointment in 2004 and renominated him for a lifetime seat on the court. Awaiting action by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Democratic senators have objected to his comments and writings on abortion and homosexuality, which included a Supreme Court brief in a Texas sodomy case that likened homosexual acts to ''prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography and even incest and pedophilia.''

--Janice Rogers Brown, for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Approved by the Judiciary Committee, awaiting vote by full Senate. Democrats say the California Supreme Court justice is a conservative judicial activist who ignores the law in favor of her own political views. They cite here support for limits on abortion rights and corporate liability and her opposition to affirmative action.

--William G. Myers III, for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. Approved by the Judiciary Committee, awaiting vote by full Senate. Democrats say the former Interior Department solicitor has an anti-environment agenda and opposed environmental protections while at Interior and as a private lawyer and lobbyist for cattle and mining interests.

--Henry Saad, for the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Renominated. Democratic Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan have said they would not approve new nominations to the 6th Circuit because President Clinton's nominees to that court were never given a confirmation hearing by the Republican-controlled Senate. Levin and Stabenow want Bush to renominate Clinton's 6th Circuit Court nominees.

--Richard Griffin, for the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Renominated. Opposed by Levin and Stabenow because Clinton's nominees to that court were never given a confirmation hearing by Republicans.

--David McKeague, for the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. Opposed by Levin and Stabenow because Clinton's nominees to that court never got a confirmation hearing by Republicans.

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On the Net:

Justice Department nominee biographies:

Owen: http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/owen.htm

Pryor: http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/pryor.htm

Brown: http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/brown.htm

Myers: http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/myers.htm

Saad: http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/saad.htm

Griffin: http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/griffin.htm

McKeague: http://www.usdoj.gov/olp/mckeague.htm


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