President Obama wants controversial nominees like Caitlin
Halligan to breeze through the Senate confirmation process even when there are
concerns about the nominee. The Senate should not let such nominees be confirmed.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) said
Caitlin Halligan has taken “extreme positions on constitutional issues, pushing
the court beyond what I think is reasonable.”
Halligan’s extreme positions include her views on gun rights, abortion
and the detention and trial of enemy combatants.
As the Committee for Justice blog explained,
there are specifically concerns about whether Halligan is upholding constitutionally
recognized Second Amendment rights:
Citing Halligan’s “attacks on the
Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans,” the National Rifle
Association opposed a judicial nominee for one of the few times in its history.
Gun Owners of America cited Halligan’s “avid leader[ship] in the effort to
destroy firearms manufacturers using frivolous litigation,” and the Citizens
Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms deemed her to be “Obama’s most
radical anti-gun judicial nominee to date.”
To push through this controversial nominee, Democrats are
claiming that Obama’s judicial nominees have been unfairly obstructed. However, a higher percentage of Obama’s first-term
nominees have been confirmed than the Democrats permitted during President
George W. Bush’s first term.
Furthermore, 60% of court vacancies have no nominee from the White
House. The Democrat claims of
obstruction are unfounded.
Senators are not obstructionists if they oppose Halligan. They should exercise their rightful authority
to oppose nominees who are extreme.
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