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Senate Confirms Controversial Judge
The Senate Thursday confirmed the nomination of a controversial judge to a federal appeals court.
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WASHINGTON (November 19, 2009)—The U.S. Senate confirmed David Hamilton Thursday for the Chicago-based federal appeals court after Democrats stopped a Republican filibuster. Conservatives targeted Hamilton, labeling him a liberal activist.
Hamilton, a U.S. district judge from Indiana, was approved 59-39 and became the eighth of President Barack Obama's judicial nominees to win confirmation.
He is the third nominee who has been confirmed to serve on an appeals court.
Republican senators backed by their conservative allies outside Congress blocked the vote for five months until their filibuster was overcome Tuesday, 70-29.
The failure to stop the confirmation showed Republicans lack the clout to hold up Obama's judicial nominees as the president remakes the federal judiciary following eight years of George W. Bush's mostly conservative choices for the bench.
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do the math?>> Once again you are wrong on everything.
Obama sure is hostile to this nation. He has mismanaged the economy so that the Federal government now owns the majority of General Motors, a number of banks and lending institutions. He gave each of a stimulus amount that was mismanaged through our payroll and will have to now be payed back in our taxes at the end of the year. He is pushing to pass through government owned and run health care. He has stripped away restrictions for medical personel to object to performing services related to abortions without being sued, and has included federal funding for abortion in many of the drafts for health care. Now, he is seeking to reconstitute the federal courts with people who have limited religious freedoms with there past judicial actions and are less likely to call into question anything he might do in office. Why are we letting this happen. I guess the majority of people voted for it. I didn't, but nothing can be done until the next election. It can't come too soon.
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