Filibuster More Likely For Boyle

By Jonathan Allen - May 9th, 2006 - The Hill

Republican senators are welcoming the impending return of judicial nominations to the Senate floor as D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Brett Kavanaugh moves toward consideration and the White House readies a new list of judges to send to Capitol Hill.

Kavanaugh, who had a rare second hearing before the Judiciary Committee yesterday, does not appear to be in as much danger of drawing a serious filibuster as another Bush nominee, Terrence Boyle.

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) plans to bring Kavanaugh’s nomination to the floor before Memorial Day, but Boyle’s future remains less certain.

This is bizarre. This is an article claiming that Democrats are trying to stop Terrence Boyle from becoming a federal Judge. Terrence Boyle should be fillibustered, but he should be filibustered by Republicans. He may have been reversed 165 times but that is more because of his shortcomings as a Judge than having a bias against minorities, the Democratic claim.

In our Bertie County desgregation case, he actually became so confused at one point that he asked if the children who were currently attending the school he was ordering closed, J.P. Law, would be transferred to the school that was fartherest away and least likely to be of help, West Bertie Elementary. Despite years of handling this case he still doesn't have a clue what the case was about, or the consequences of the orders that he made, or have the slightest clue what Bertie County needs or how it is organized. It didn't appear he knew the law either, as he let the Department of Justice lawyer make claims that were counter to the more recent appeal court rulings. A Judge that doesn't know the law and is confused by a case is not the kind of Judge that Bush should be appointing.

I hope that Richard Burr and Elizabeth Dole will join in voting to block this man from the bench. He does not deserve to be a federal Judge.