While we may be basking at the bitch slapping voters gave democrats earlier this week, that’s not stopping Obama from putting into power radical leftists, Marxists, Leninists and ACORN supporters.
Specifically, judges:
Senate Republicans are gearing up to block the appeals-court nomination of U.S. District Judge David Hamilton, whose resume includes a stint as a fundraiser for ACORN, the community-organizing group recently tripped up by a series of embarrassing undercover videos.
Conservative legal groups have described Hamilton as “ultra-liberal.” His appointment to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago would provide an aerie perch from which to rule on appeals from Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told fellow senators that before Veterans Day “We are going to [vote on] Judge David Hamilton, Seventh Circuit, who has been waiting since April. We have agreed to time agreements. Do you want an hour, two hours, five hours, 10 hours of debate? No, we don’t want anything. Up-or-down vote.”
News that Reid planned to push the Hamilton nomination without much debate has triggered alarms among Senate Republicans, who view Hamilton’s record as too extreme.
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., recent wrote a letter to colleagues warning that Hamilton “has used his position as a district court judge to drive a political agenda.”
Sessions accused Hamilton of being a judicial activist who had “abused his lifetime appointment” as a judge to “deprive the people of Indiana of their domestic and constitutional rights….”
Ironically, when President Obama selected Hamilton to become the first judicial nomination of his presidency, aides said it signaled the president’s desire to work harmoniously with Senate Republicans.
“We are trying to set a tone here,” one Obama adviser told reporters in March, as reported by the Tribune Washington Bureau. “We are eager to put the confirmation wars behind us.”
Hamilton’s nomination soon drew heavy flak from conservative legal organizations, however. The Judicial Confirmation Network called Hamilton’s rulings “extreme” and described him as “ultra-liberal.”
Also, a coalition of four pro-life groups — Concerned Women for America, Family Research Council, Liberty Counsel and Focus on the Family Action – sent a letter to Senate members protesting the nomination.
Meanwhile, Democrats stopped a move by republicans to include a citizenship question on Census forms:
Senate Democrats have blocked a GOP attempt to require next year’s census forms to ask people whether they are a U.S. citizen.
The proposal by Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter was aimed at excluding immigrants from the population totals that are used to figure the number of congressional representatives for each state. Critics said Vitter’s plan would discourage immigrants from responding to the census and would be hugely expensive. They also said that it’s long been settled law that the apportionment of congressional seats is determined by the number of people living in each state, regardless of whether they are citizens. A separate survey already collects the data.
The plan fell after a 60-39 procedural vote made it ineligible for attachment to a bill funding the census.
