Bush to Renominate Judges Blocked by Democrats
157552
President Bush said on Thursday he  would renominate a group of controversial judicial nominees who  were blocked by Senate Democrats, signaling the start of a  second-term battle over the make-up of the nation's top courts.
738838
President George W. Bush's Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic plan to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq by the end of April 2008 to cap a rare round-the-clock U.S. Senate debate.
374590
In a move to satisfy the GOP's most conservative supporters, President Bush on Wednesday nominated five people as appeals court judges, including one whom Democrats have threatened to block with a filibuster.
634628
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday to hold two men who have been top aides to President George W. Bush in contempt for refusing to comply with subpoenas in its probe of the firing of federal prosecutors.
149441
Senate Republicans blocked a vote of no confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday, dashing Democratic hopes of embarrassing Gonzales and his boss, President George W. Bush, with a formal demand for his ouster.
409199
not in the way that the court counted in 2000. If President Bush gets to make his first Supreme Court appointment
535310
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
239153
A measure President Bush proposed would create tribunals similar to those that the Supreme Court rejected in June.
366287
The Bush administration served official notice Friday that it will appeal a judge's ruling that stopped proceedings in the first trial by a military commission of an alleged al-Qaida member.
424394
Democrats accused President Bush on Saturday of fanning terrorism fears shamelessly as he was about to lose certain authority to wiretap foreign suspects without a court warrant.
50123
President Bush will again nominate 20 persons for federal judgeships, even though Democrats previously used tactics such as filibusters to prevent them from being confirmed, the White House announced Thursday.
70759
Senate Democrats are "not going to cut and run" from a battle over President Bush's judicial nominations, the party's leader vowed Tuesday, adding that some Democrats regret not having blocked even more appointments.
75739
Court rules president's suspension of judge illegal.
165836
President George W. Bush plans to announce on Monday he has chosen former federal judge Michael Mukasey as his nominee for attorney general, the White House said.
689882
President Bush revived his call to loosen restrictions on immigrant workers Wednesday as a key House Republican moved in the opposite direction after losing a showdown with the White House in December.
36540
The incoming Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee promised on Wednesday to combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time trampling of American rights.
378630
A former aide to Jesse Helms and a former Interior Department lawyer blocked by Democrats last year will be the subjects of the first judgeship battles of President Bush's second term.