political stuff

Well, since I don't have much else to talk about, I'm gonna talk about politics. Whee.

New York Times - Bush Tries Again on Court Choices Stalled in Senate

So anyway, Bush is re-nominating a dozen judicial appointees who failed to get through Senate hearings (or whose nominations were successfully filibustered) during his last term. But as they say, if at first you don't succeed, try, try again when your party is 4 votes closer to being able to break a filibuster. It's strange how people seem to leave off that last part. Also quite interesting:

Among the candidates the president said on Thursday he would renominate is William J. Haynes IV, the Pentagon's general counsel, who has been deeply embroiled in controversy over memorandums he wrote or supervised that secretly authorized harsh treatment, even torture, for detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and in Iraq. Mr. Haynes's nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, based in Richmond, Va., was suspended when the issue erupted and he was asked by the Judiciary Committee to provide material about his role in the issue and failed to do so.

So now that there's solid evidence of abuse at Guantanamo, it's not such a big deal? I don't get it. On the other hand, if he's getting nominated to a Virginia court, it would surprise me if he was the liberal judge there. Virginia sucks.
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I'm still not done with my history paper. It's kinda confusing since I have a few books that conflict slightly with each other. Oh well.
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EDIT: Did some fiddling with the margins on the <blockquote> tag. Also justified quoted text.