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03/26/2006
CWA: Political Cowardice Sacrificed Saad WASHINGTON -- Concerned Women for America (CWA) expressed deep disappointment upon learning about the withdrawal of Judge Henry Saad’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Jan LaRue, CWA’s Chief Counsel, says in an article on Human Events Online, “No nominee should expect that ‘his side’ is going to hang him up as a political piñata and stand by while partisan hacks flail away at him.” President Bush nominated Saad on November 8, 2001, to a seat that has been deemed a judicial emergency. The nomination was blocked primarily by Democratic Sens. Levin and Stabenow from Saad’s home state of Michigan because of political grudges going back to the Clinton administration. The “Gang of 14” backroom deal last May left Saad and three other nominees out of a so-called commitment not to filibuster any nominees except for “extraordinary circumstances,” which apparently includes political grudges. “Judge Henry Saad is an outstanding jurist with nearly a decade of experience on the state court of appeals. [He] has sat on the Michigan Court of Appeals since 1994, having been reelected twice with broad bi-partisan support. The American Bar Association rated Judge Saad ‘Qualified,’” according to the White House statement about him. “Why did the White House and Senate leadership let this good judge get away? You’d think that the successful battles that seated John Roberts and Samuel Alito on the Supreme Court would have taught them to trust their base and the majority of the American people to back them in confirming more good judges to the federal bench,” LaRue concluded. “You’d think they’d prefer a fight with their enemies rather than their friends.” Concerned Women for America (CWA) is the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization.
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