{"id":187368,"date":"2013-03-23T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/23\/wimp-out\/"},"modified":"2013-03-23T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-24T01:16:00","slug":"wimp-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/03\/23\/wimp-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimp Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/obama-withdraws-nomination-of-caitlin-halligan-to-dc\">withdrawn Caitlin Halligan&#8217;s nomination To D.C. Circuit Court<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Obama has withdrawn the nomination of Caitlin J. Halligan, a prominent New York lawyer, to serve on an important federal appeals court in Washington, blaming Republicans for blocking her confirmation twice.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The president formally notified the Senate of his decision on Friday, after Ms. Halligan requested that her name be withdrawn from consideration. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is widely viewed as the most important federal appellate court because it reviews many cases on the government\u2019s authority.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI am deeply disappointed that even after nearly two and a half years, a minority of senators continued to block a simple up-or-down vote on her nomination,\u201d Mr. Obama said in a statement. \u201cThis unjustified filibuster obstructed the majority of senators from expressing their support. I am confident that with Caitlin\u2019s impressive qualifications and reputation, she would have served with distinction.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First, to Harry Reid:  It was <b>such<\/b> a good idea to soft pedal filibuster reform.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s hoping that the Senate Democrats will choose a new leader in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Obama needs to show some guts.<\/p>\n<p>The DC Court of Appeals is effectively the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> highest court in the land, and it is the one that is shortest staffed, because the &#8216;Phants are filibustering <b>any<\/b> appointment to the court.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling over and playing dead is <b>not<\/b> a winning proposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama has withdrawn Caitlin Halligan&#8217;s nomination To D.C. Circuit Court: President Obama has withdrawn the nomination of Caitlin J. Halligan, a prominent New York lawyer, to serve on an important federal appeals court in Washington, blaming Republicans for blocking her confirmation twice.The president formally notified the Senate of his decision on Friday, after Ms. Halligan &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,972,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-justice","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}