Gem
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There are several discussions about the filibuster, why its happening, whether it is right or wrong. Lost in all of these, seems to be the people who are sitting in limbo, waiting for the senate. Some have removed their names, tired of waiting, tired of having their characters impugned.
So here are just a few of the more well-known judges waiting....for those here who oppose them, or even if you just think that the Democratic memebers of the Senate have every right to keep filibustering their appointments...can you tell me why?
Why are you opposed to these people? What have they done, what do they believe, support, represent, what do they do, that you disagree with?
So here are just a few of the more well-known judges waiting....for those here who oppose them, or even if you just think that the Democratic memebers of the Senate have every right to keep filibustering their appointments...can you tell me why?
Why are you opposed to these people? What have they done, what do they believe, support, represent, what do they do, that you disagree with?
Janice Brown
DC Circuit
Since May 2, 1996, Janice Brown has been an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. From November 4, 1994, she was an Associate Justice of the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento. From January 7, 1991, to November 1994, Ms. Brown served as Legal Affairs Secretary to Governor Pete Wilson. Prior to joining Governor Wilson's senior staff, Brown was an associate at Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, a government and political law firm. Before joining the firm in January 1990, Brown served for two and a half years as Deputy Secretary and General Counsel for the state's Business, Transportation and Housing Agency, working primarily with business regulatory departments. Brown came to BT&H after eight years (1979-1987) in the Attorney General's Office, where she worked in both the criminal and civil divisions. From 1977 to 1979, Brown worked for the Legislative Counsel.
Charles W. Pickering Sr.
5th circuit
U. S. District Judge Charles W. Pickering, Sr., has had over ten years experience on the federal trial bench. He was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi on October 2, 1990, by President Bush's father. Prior to appointment to the bench, Judge Pickering practiced law for almost thirty years. Judge Pickering was appointed and served as City Prosecuting Attorney of Laurel and was elected and served four years as County Prosecuting Attorney of Jones County. He served briefly as Laurel City Judge, 1969, and was elected to two terms in the Mississippi State Senate, 1972 to 1980. He was the Republican nominee for Attorney General in 1979, and served as Chairman of the Mississippi Republican Party from 1976 to 1978. Judge Pickering graduated at the top of his law school class at the University of Mississippi where he was on the Law Journal and served as Chairman of the Moot Court Board.
Miguel Estrada
DC Circuit
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Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Miguel A. Estrada immigrated to the United States with his family as a teenager. He is currently a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he is a member of the firm's Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group and the Business Crimes and Investigations Practice Group. Mr. Estrada graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor's degree from Columbia College, New York in 1983. He received a juris doctor degree magna cum laude in 1986 from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Mr. Estrada served as a law clerk to the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then clerked for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. From 1990 until 1992, Mr. Estrada served as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. In 1992, he joined the United States Department of Justice as an Assistant to the Solicitor General. In those capacities, Mr. Estrada represented the government in numerous jury trials and in many appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Estrada practiced law in New York with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.