Republican modus operandi: If you can't win, at least gum up the works
Yet More G.O.P. Obstruction
By LINCOLN CAPLAN, NYT
In his first term, President Obama tried to fill two vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. No luck: Senate Republicans blocked both of his nominees. Unsurprisingly, they're showing no signs of letting up. As Legal Times reported on Wednesday, they're delaying hearings for Srikanth Srinivasan, an exceptional and moderate candidate.
Mr. Srinivasan was first nominated last June and was re-nominated this month. The American Bar Association rated him well qualified, the same rating they gave John Roberts Jr. when he was a candidate for the D.C. Circuit. Mr. Srinivasan has been principal deputy solicitor general since 2011.
He previously spent five years in the Office of the Solicitor General as a junior lawyer during the Bush administration and another year there on a fellowship during the Clinton administration.
He has been a partner in and chairman of the appellate and Supreme Court practice in a major national law firm (O'Melveny & Myers). He has clerked for a leading Republican-appointed federal appeals court judge (J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit) and for a Republican-appointed member of the Supreme Court (Sandra Day O'Connor). He has strong academic credentials (three degrees from Stanford University, from its college and its law and business schools).
(More here.)
By LINCOLN CAPLAN, NYT
In his first term, President Obama tried to fill two vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. No luck: Senate Republicans blocked both of his nominees. Unsurprisingly, they're showing no signs of letting up. As Legal Times reported on Wednesday, they're delaying hearings for Srikanth Srinivasan, an exceptional and moderate candidate.
Mr. Srinivasan was first nominated last June and was re-nominated this month. The American Bar Association rated him well qualified, the same rating they gave John Roberts Jr. when he was a candidate for the D.C. Circuit. Mr. Srinivasan has been principal deputy solicitor general since 2011.
He previously spent five years in the Office of the Solicitor General as a junior lawyer during the Bush administration and another year there on a fellowship during the Clinton administration.
He has been a partner in and chairman of the appellate and Supreme Court practice in a major national law firm (O'Melveny & Myers). He has clerked for a leading Republican-appointed federal appeals court judge (J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the Fourth Circuit) and for a Republican-appointed member of the Supreme Court (Sandra Day O'Connor). He has strong academic credentials (three degrees from Stanford University, from its college and its law and business schools).
(More here.)
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