University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Law Faculty Publications School of Law 2005 Appellate Court Appointments in the Second Bush Administration Carl W. Tobias University of Richmond,
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[email protected]. SYMPOSIUM ESSAY APPELLATE COURT APPOINTMENTS IN THE SECOND BUSH ADMINISTRATION Carl Tobias * On December 23, 2004, the White House announced that President George W. Bush would renominate twelve candidates for the United States courts of appeals, each of whom Democratic senators had opposed in the Bush Administration's first term, many with filibusters.1 The Statement on Judicial Nominations, which the Office of the White House Press Secretary released, announced that the Chief Executive intended to nominate again the one dozen persons whom the United States Senate did not ac cord "up or down" votes during the President's initial term.2 * Williams Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law. B.A., 1968, Duke University; LL.B., 1972, University of Virginia School of Law. I wish to thank Peggy Sanner for valuable suggestions; Sean Roche for staging, coordinating, and shepherding the federal judicial selection symposium as well as for valuable suggestions on this piece; Carolyn Hill for processing the piece; and Russell Williams for generous, continuing sup port.