Bush set to try again on blocked judicial nominees
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President Bush plans to resubmit a group of controversial judicial nominees blocked during his first term, challenging Senate Democrats who
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High court may rule on the legality of President Bush&#39;s use of the controversial tactic to fill judicial vacancies. By Warren Richey | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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President Bush&#39;s re-election makes it more likely Chief Justice William Rehnquist will retire soon. And Republican gains in the Senate mean the president has more flexibility to nominate
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President Bush has settled on Michael B. Mukasey, a retired federal judge from New York, to replace Alberto Gonzales as attorney general and will announce his selection Monday, a person familiar with the president's decision said Sunday evening.
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The American Bar Association gave President Bush's choice for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia the lowest possible passing grade for judicial nominees, and sources said a Republican Senate chairman was expected to schedule a hearing next week on his nomination.
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Washington -- Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist urged Democrats on Thursday to stop blocking President Bush&#39;s federal court nominees and hinted that he may try to change Senate rules to thwart their delaying tactics.
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Some Democrats seemed ready to fight to keep one of President Bush's judicial nominees off the bench
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A measure President Bush proposed would create tribunals similar to those that the Supreme Court rejected in June.
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President Bush vented frustration anew Saturday over the Senate's failure to vote on more than 180 of his nominations, including more than two dozen to the federal bench.
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WASHINGTON President Bush plans to re-nominate 20 people who did not receive up-or-down Senate votes on their nominations for federal judgeships.
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Bush may get to fill as many as three Supreme Court openings, remaking the court for a generation. Democrats have become experts at blocking nominees they oppose, but they can't stop them all
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US President George W. Bush's request for authority for military tribunals to try &quot;enemy combatants&quot; detained at Guantanamo Bay faces stiff opposition in Congress after the Supreme Court blocked similar trials in June.
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President Bush planned on Wednesday  to nominate White House legal counsel Alberto Gonzales as his  new attorney general as part of a reshuffle of Bush's Cabinet  for his second term, administration officials said.
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BusinessWeek Online - With barely a pause for breath after his hard-fought Election Day victory, President George W. Bush is gearing up for his next big campaign: The fight for the future of the Supreme Court. In his second term, Bush could have the chance to replace as many as four of the nine justices on the nation's highest bench, including the ailing Chief Justice, William H. Rehnquist. No President since Richard M. Nixon has appointed four justices, and, like his, Bush's choices will shape the law and life of the nation for generations.
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Pushing back against the Democratic-led Congress, Bush plans to veto a bill Wednesday that would have eased restraints on federally funded embryonic stem-cell research. Bush has used his veto pen three times -- twice on the stem-cell issue.
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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.
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The president tapped Mike Leavitt Monday as the White House sought to put its Cabinet selection process back on track after the collapse of its Department of Homeland Security nomination.