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 Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:00 am Post subject: Hillary's Revenge |
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 Hillary's Revenge
By James E. RoganSummoning the ghosts of the Clinton impeachment may be taboo in the Democratic Presidential race, but it's apparently fair game as payback against those who participated in it. Thus is California Senator Barbara Boxer exacting revenge against James Rogan, who has been nominated for a district court judgeship in California.
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By James E. RoganSummoning the ghosts of the Clinton impeachment may be taboo in the Democratic Presidential race, but it's apparently fair game as payback against those who participated in it. Thus is California Senator Barbara Boxer exacting revenge against James Rogan, who has been nominated for a district court judgeship in California.Mr. Rogan was a California Congressman in the 1990s and one of 13 managers of the impeachment hearings in the House. He also has served as a prosecutor, a municipal judge, head of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and, since last year, a Superior Court Judge in California. Yet now Ms. Boxer, his home state Senator, is exercising her prerogative to "blue-slip" him, blocking a nominee to the federal bench even before he gets a hearing from the Judiciary Committee.Asked what she had against him, Senator Boxer's office told the Associated Press that Mr. Rogan "was one of the most enthusiastic backers of impeachment -- he thought President Clinton had committed high crimes and misdemeanors. The Senate certainly disagreed with that conclusion, as did Sen. Boxer."It's an unusual spectacle for a mere district judgeship, especially in California. Ms. Boxer and fellow Senator Dianne Feinstein had worked out a system with the Bush Administration for filling federal district court vacancies through a commission designed to find consensus candidates. Known as the Parsky commission, its 27 proposed nominees so far have all met the satisfaction of the two Democrats. Until now.
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