nine vacancies

Nine vacancies remain on the circuit courts, two on the DC circuit, the second most important court in America.

Hugh Hewitt brilliantly analyzes this issue with an interview with press secretary Tony Snow, even correctly asserting that "the White House's inexplicable failure to position federal circuit court nominees for confirmation is the biggest failing of the second year of the second Bush term."

There simply is no question that the unprecedented tactics of the Democrats with respect to the judiciary have [1] Frustrated the White House to the point of near submission and [2] in Hewitt's words: "Will almost certainly cost President Bush at least some of his most lasting domestic legacy --a federal judiciary committed to the rule of law not the rule of courts."

Click 'Nine Vacancies' above for a PDF Senate status report of Bush judicial nominations.