Question: If the GOP takes back the Senate, in reference to the Senate Judiciary Committee.....

What will the breakdown of members be?
How many Democrats and how many Republicans?

Cause that would be a problem for me, if the Judicial nominees are
routinely turned down to even get to the floor for a vote, if there is a
majority of Republicans on it!

The make up of the various courts is something that is very important due to
the length of their appointments, etc....

I know that Bush packed the court with his radical activists cronies,
and if the senate resorts back to the GOP, this will stay and haunt us
for years and years to come!

committees.

So they would completely control whoever becomes a judge.

Judge appointments are for life or until the judge retires. They can not kick Bush appointed judges out, but they can lock nominees out.

calculation?

I ask because there seems to be way more Democrats on the Judiciary panel
than there are Republicans. :shrug:

The comittees reflect the makeup of the Senate. (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/july-dec00/power_12-6.html) When there was a small majority of Dems or Reps, the difference was smaller. When Jim Jeffords switched, giving the Senate Dems, as I recall, the shared power. As I recall the Senate was 50-50, with Cheney presidieng over any ties as VP, which effectivly gave control of the Senate to the Republicans. Jeffords made it 51-49, and gave control to Democrats.

If Republians take over, be it with 1 vote or 10, they will get the majority of seats.

controlled which appointees of President Clinton got to be brought up for a vote. Just look at how many judges were sitting and waiting when Bush took office. The half butt republicans knew what they were doing, they wanted to pack the courts.

Currently there are 7 Rs and 12 Ds on the Committee, which is a 63-37 split -- slightly better than the D's actual margin in the Senate. If the R's capture the Senate by, say, a 51-49 margin, they would probably end up with a one or two vote margin in the Committee, depending on how big they decide to make the committee. If its a 50/50 split, it could end up with a 50/50 split in the committee with an R and a D as "co-chairmen".

the way it happened back in 2000.

That means that Dems would still have a majority (I guess) on most committees,
but perhaps by only one?

I'm just guessing based on my memory of what happened when Jeffords defected.

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/05/senate.powershare/index.html

BY way of clarification, there was a pure 50/50 split after the November 2000 elections, with the Democrats nominally having the majority from early January (by way of then VP Gore) until bush was inagurated, at which point Lott replaced Daschle as majority leader. The power sharing arrangement at that time was a 50/50 split in assignments with the repubs getting the chairmanships (although in some instances, like the Senate commerce committee, the decision was made by Inouye and Stevens to call themselves co-chairmen).

When Jeffords switched parties in June 2001, it gave the Democrats an actual majority (51/49) and Daschle again became majority leader -- I don't recall whether the committees were reorganized at that point to give the Democrats one additional member -- I think so, but can't be certain. In any event, the repubs regained control in the Nov 2002 election (51-48) and the committee reorganization gave the repubs a one or two vote majority on all of the committees.

numerically, it's almost an impossibility...I think we might even pick up a seat or two...:D