CWA: Senate Must End Recess on Judges     4/27/2006

Washington, D.C.— Concerned Women for America (CWA) is encouraged to hear that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tennessee) intends to bring Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court to a floor vote before the Memorial Day recess. Kavanaugh, the White House staff secretary, needs a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing before proceeding to an up-or-down vote on the Senate floor.

“The obstructionists on the left side of the Senate have blocked this nomination and others far too long,” said Jan LaRue, CWA’s Chief Counsel. “President Bush nominated Kavanaugh in 2003 and again last January. The need for another hearing on this highly qualified nominee is the result of the poisoned politics that caused his nomination to die in the first place.”

Kavanaugh is a graduate of Yale Law School who clerked for three federal judges, including a justice of the Supreme Court. Before becoming White House Staff Secretary, Kavanaugh served in the Office of the Solicitor General and as assistant counsel to the President.

“While it’s good to move on Kavanaugh’s nomination, what about the others that need votes and hearings? Terry Boyle’s nomination to the 4th Circuit has been in limbo for nearly five years. Last week Frist said he would move that nomination with Kavanaugh’s. This week, it’s just Kavanaugh. We want movement but in the right direction,” LaRue added.

For Information Contact:
Demi Bardsley
(202) 255-2278
media.cwfa.org

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