Boyle Included In Nominees for Appeals Court

Bucking opposition in the Senate, President Bush on Wednesday nominated five people for the U.S. Court of Appeals, including one whom Democrats have threatened to block with a filibuster.

In a statement released in Tennessee, where Bush was attending a political fundraiser, the White House said the president was nominating Terrence Boyle of North Carolina and William James Haynes II of Virginia to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, Michael Brunson Wallace of Mississippi for the 5th Circuit, and William Gerry Myers III of Idaho and Norman Randy Smith of Idaho for the 9th Circuit.

In July, Boyle acknowledged missing the appearance of a conflict of interest in four cases in which he is accused of issuing rulings involving litigants in whose companies his family held stock. Boyle said then that his aides, who do routine screening of cases for conflicts of interest, missed the appearance.

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Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) has said that his party would filibuster Boyle's nomination if it came to the floor.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/30/AR2006083003086.html

Doesn't "believe in" Americans With Disabilities Act, Age Discrimination In Employment Act --- a real disaster for working families. (So, what else is new?)

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

His circuit is my area and my son has a disability (even though I've about conceeded the fight is over since the Supreme Ct. isn't friendly to ADA either). Years of hard work and progress flushed away with the 2004 elections and the gang of 14.

Him being all Democratic and all.