PRESIDENT BUSH’S decision last week to bypass five recommendations from Virginia Sens. John Warner, a Republican, and Jim Webb Jr., a Democrat, and nominate Duncan Getchell Jr. to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit is stirring criticism among advocacy groups.
“Senators Warner and Webb got together in a spirit of bipartisan cooperation, but President Bush has shown that he is not concerned with filling vacancies in the federal court but is far more interested in … trying to put ideologues on the federal bench,” says Judith Schaeffer, legal director of People For the American Way.
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