From today’s Mobile Register:
Sunday, March 13, 2025
By STEVEN L. TAYLOR
Special to the Register
The re-election of President Bush has set the stage for “Confirmation Wars II: Return of the Nominees.”
As we may recall, the Democrats in the last Senate were actively engaged in a conflict with President Bush, wherein they were using the Senate’s filibuster rule (i.e., the right to unlimited debate) to block 10 of President Bush’s nominations to the U.S. Courts of Appeal. Among that group was Alabama’s former attorney general, Bill Pryor, who received a temporary appoint to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal that expired at the end of President Bush’s first term.
The entire piece is here.
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