25 July 2013

Tell the Senate: No More Obstruction; Fill the D.C. Circuit NOW! & GOP Obstruction of the DC Circuit: Infographics 24JUL13

THE repiglicans and tea-baggers are just asking for Majority leader Sen Harry Reid D NV to invoke the nuclear option to end their partisan obstructionism in the US Senate. President Obama's appointees to the D.C. Circuit Court are well qualified for the open seats on the court's bench. Call on your Senators to approve Pres Obama's judicial nominees to this court and, click the link, and then take a look at the info graphs to see how Pres Obama's judicial nominations have fared compared to previous presidents...

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee held another hearing on one of the president’s pending nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Nina Pillard. All three of the diverse and eminently qualified D.C. Circuit nominees must be confirmed without delay.

We saw some serious progress last week as the wall of obstruction came down on critical executive branch nominees like Richard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Tom Perez as Labor Secretary. Now, our attention must be on saving the courts and defeating the senseless blockade of nominees to fill urgent judicial vacancies.

The Radical Right is mobilizing against the D.C. Circuit nominees. And some Senate Republicans have indicated their desire to persist in their blanket obstruction.

For all the Americans who are being denied justice because of the partisan obstruction of these nominees, and nominees to other federal courts, we need to break down the Republicans’ wall of judicial obstruction.

Please add your name to PFAW’s urgent petition telling the Senate to Fill the D.C. Circuit if you haven’t done so already>>

Call your senators and urge them to confirm D.C. Circuit nominees Cornelia Pillard, Patricia Ann Millet and Robert Leon Wilkins. In calls to Republican senators, make sure to demand that they end the obstruction:

And help spread the word about Republican obstruction and the D.C. Circuit by sharing our infographics on Facebook and elsewhere>>

We’ve got to keep on fighting … and together, we WILL end the obstruction.

Thank you for all you do.

-- Ben Betz, Online Strategy Manager