Bush plans to renominate 20 as judges
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Washington -- President Bush announced Thursday that he plans to renominate 20 of his choices for the federal bench who never got a vote in the bitterly divided Senate in his first term, including California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown.
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President Bush on Thursday chastised the Senate for not holding up-or-down votes on more than 180 of his nominations, including 28 to the federal bench. Democrats claim their efforts to compromise with the White House on nominees have been rebuffed.
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Refusing to be brushed off by Democratic opposition in the Senate, President Bush plans to nominate for a second time 20 people who did not receive up or down votes on their nominations for federal judgeships.
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Twenty retired federal judges, two rear admirals and a Marine general joined 383 current or former members of the European and British parliaments on Friday in urging the Supreme Court to grant detainees at Guantanamo Bay full access to the U.S. court system.
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New military trial rules for terrorism suspects that President George W. Bush endorsed and Congress approved will draw vigorous court challenges and could be struck down for violating rights guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution, critics and legal experts said.
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President Bush knew what he was getting in 2001 when he made Reggie B. Walton one of his first picks for a seat on the federal bench: a tough-on-crime judge with a reputation for handing down stiff sentences.
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The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an analysis by The Washington Post.
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President Bush will resubmit to the  Senate many of the judicial nominees blocked by Democrats as  too conservative, setting off a second-term battle over the  make up of the federal courts, officials said on Thursday.
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US judges this year may once again decide the outcome of a presidential election, as lawyers for the campaigns of both Republican George W. Bush and Democrat John Kerry have filed vote-related lawsuits days ahead of the November 2 balloting.
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President George W. Bush's broad assertions of power in his war on terrorism are under assault by U.S. judges who have rejected his indefinite imprisonment of enemy combatants and the domestic spying program.
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A federal judge in Los Angeles, who previously struck down sections of the Patriot Act, has ruled that provisions of an anti-terrorism order issued by President George W. Bush after September 11 are unconstitutional.
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U.S. Chief Justice William  Rehnquist, who has been absent from the Supreme Court because  of thyroid cancer, plans to swear in President Bush at his  inauguration on Jan. 20, the White House and a court  spokeswoman said on Friday.
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President Bush has selected retired federal judge Michael B. Mukasey as his new attorney general, sources said yesterday, moving to install a law-and-order conservative at the Justice Department while hoping to avoid a confirmation fight with Senate Democrats.
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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, DC-- Today, President Bush announced plans to resubmit 20 nominations for lifetime seats on federal courts that were not approved by the Senate, including several Court of Appeals nominations that were blocked by filibuster on the Senate floor
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The Bush administration issued a new rule Wednesday streamlining the planning process for the nation&#39;s 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands.
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President Bush is set to offer legislation Wednesday to change the law to allow military tribunals to try detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.