Miguel Estrada

...2007, Cong. Rec. S13289) Sen. James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma): "The Democrats, who cannot muster a majority to oppose [Bush nominee Miguel Estrada], are seeking, in effect, to change the Constitutional majority-vote requirement. By sustaining...

In this article: George W. Bush and Barack Obama

...through four years of Democratic blocking tactics before she was confirmed for the New Orleans-based federal appeals court. Miguel Estrada withdrew his bid for an appellate seat after a Democratic filibuster lasting more than two years. As...

In this article: Jeff Sessions, Harry Reid, Lee Hamilton, George W. Bush, Sonia Sotomayor, Andre Davis, and John Roberts

The stage has been set for the United States Supreme Court to hear Conrad Black's appeal. On Dec. 8 at 10 a.m., Black's lawyer, Miguel Estrada, will stand before nine justices of the nation's highest court and attempt to persuade them that...

In this article: Conrad Black, Supreme Court, Jeffrey Skilling, Antonin Scalia, United States, Blunt instrument, and Chicago

...stonewalling in 2001, Judge Sotomayor might not have been the first Latina Supreme Court candidate. That honor might have gone to Miguel Estrada, a Honduran-born Latino who had served as assistant to the solicitor general in the 1990s. In...

In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Harvard Law School, Slate, Dahlia Lithwick, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

...but they understood that then-Judge Scalia was incredibly qualified. Things, however, have changed. The nominations of Miguel Estrada, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito illustrate how partisan politics have been permitted to...

In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Patty Murray, Lindsey Graham, Barack Obama, Mitch McConnell, and Washington

...Court nominee appears on track to receive as many as 67 votes. Republicans use the debate to complain about the treatment of Miguel Estrada, a Bush judicial nominee rejected in 2003. Reporting from Washington -- Senate Republicans...

In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Orrin Hatch, George W. Bush, Washington, and Blanche Lincoln

...of service on the Supreme Court," McCain said. "Those who suggest otherwise need to be reminded of Miguel Estrada." The Democrats' filibuster of Estrada's nomination to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals by George W. Bush remains a sore...

In this article: John McCain, Sonia Sotomayor, Lindsey Graham, Supreme Court, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama

...of Justice Clarence Thomas as an argument for his elevation to the Court. And they used a filibuster to stop Bush appointee Miguel Estrada from getting a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which they feared would be a...

In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Abigail Thernstrom, Ideology, Progressives, and Yale Law School

...Democratic spin. The Hispanic vote is hardly monolithic -- and many Hispanics remember how poorly Miguel Estrada was treated by the Democrats when he was nominated by President George W. Bush for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...

In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, White House, Ivy League, and Richard J. Durbin

...prominent figures not present in the packed Hart Senate Office Building - from President Obama to conservative lawyer Miguel Estrada - muscled their way into the spotlight, as senators wrangled over the nominee's heart and her...

In this article: Sonia Sotomayor, John Roberts, Barack Obama, Supreme Court, Sheldon Whitehouse, GOP, and Janet Murguia