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Federalist Society Convention Kicks Off With Call to Oppose Obama Judge Picks

By Daphne Eviatar
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6:27 pm

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) kicked off the annual Federalist Society convention today with a call to oppose President Obama’s liberal nominees for the federal judiciary, Legal Times reports.

“We are in a long and difficult fight,” Sessions told the gathering of leading conservative lawyers, judges and law professors from around the country. Sessions was referring to the importance of expanding conservatives’ influence on the federal judiciary, and rejecting President Obama’s interest in appointing judges with “empathy,” a factor the president said influenced his choice of Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Sessions reportedly said that conservatives must keep debating the appropriate role of judges and “must take the debate right to the American people.”

The three-day Federalist Society convention is taking place at Washington, D.C.’s Renaissance Mayflower Hotel. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and Judge Douglas Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit are among the scheduled speakers.

In his speech, Sessions said Republicans would not attempt to filibuster most of President Obama’s choices for the bench, although he didn’t rule out filibustering some of them.

He singled out Judge David Hamilton, a nominee to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, as a judge who’s too liberal on matters such as abortion, prayer in public school and criminal sentencing. Sessions similarly criticized Hamilton in a recent letter sent to his Republican colleagues in the Senate. The letter, which called for Republicans to oppose his elevation to the court of appeals, said Hamilton was using his role on the district court to “drive a political agenda” and that Hamilton believed “empathy” should factor into the process of judging, which Sessions called a form of “activism.”

Comments

12 Comments

jose maria
Comment posted November 12, 2009 @ 7:26 pm

After reading that article on Sotomayor in Latina magazine. I'm completely sick to my stomach. I thought I would read about her role on the supreme court, but it centered on the color of her nail polish, the size of her earrings and her most recent lover with “no strings attached.” Is that all this justice has to contribute to the highest court in the USA? She is shallow, unprofessional , and apparently has no moral fortitude. She should have gone on the stage instead of the supreme court. I can read about the demimonde most anywhere, but we don't need it on the supreme court. Maybe she'll end up committing some misdeamenor and we can get rid of her. I'm so proud of Jeff Sessions for voting against her. She did a read snow job of most those senators, but Mr Sessions was never fooled for an instance

strangely_enough
Comment posted November 12, 2009 @ 7:33 pm

All that from an article in “Latina” magazine? Really? Oh, that's right, you're “proud of Jeff Sessions…” Nuff said.

kmansfield
Comment posted November 13, 2009 @ 2:13 am

Sessions is just jealous and bitter.
His own nomination was blocked all bi-partisany like..

“Sessions' nomination, which failed amid accusations that his pursuit of voter fraud charges against three African-American civil rights activists as U.S. attorney in 1985 were racially motivated and that he had made racially insensitive comments.”

See, nothing really changes, least of all this backwater hick.

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