Senate Democrats finally have the scalp they so desperately wanted.
* Senate Democrats finally have the scalp they so desperately
wanted. On February February: see month. 6--Reagan's birthday!--the Senate Republican
leadership announced the resignation of Manuel Manuel may refer to: - People referred to as simply Manuel
- Manuel I Komnenos (1118–1180), Byzantine emperor
- Manuel I of Portugal (1469-1521)
- Manuel I of Trebizond (1218–1263)
Miranda, a top aide to
majority leader Bill Frist. Miranda quit under pressure from Republicans
eager to accommodate Democrats angry over the leak (programming) leak - With a qualifier, one of a class of resource-management bugs that occur when resources are not freed properly after operations on them are finished, so they effectively disappear (leak out). This leads to eventual exhaustion as new allocation requests come in. of secret Democratic
strategy memos concerning the president's judicial nominees. Those
memos, leaked to the press late last year, revealed that Democrats were
working closely with liberal interest groups to, among other things,
racially profile Bush nominees and manipulate manipulate
To cause a security to sell at an artificial price. Although investment bankers are permitted to manipulate temporarily the stock they underwrite, most other forms of manipulation are illegal. the scheduling of one
nominee's hearing in hopes of influencing an ongoing case in
federal court. One memo referred to Bush's judicial picks as
"nazis." The documents would have been profoundly embarrassing
to Democrats had anyone in the establishment press decided to pay
attention. Instead, Democrats cried foul and claimed the memos had been
stolen--even though it was their peculiar computer system that made them
available to anyone at the Judiciary Committee Judiciary Committee may refer to: - U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary
- U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
who wanted to see them.
In full retreat, Republicans gave in to Democratic demands for an
investigation and, later, to demands that Miranda be fired. Now
Miranda--who played a key role in several battles to confirm Bush
nominees--has fired back. Shortly before his resignation, he filed a
complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee ethics committee A multidisciplinary hospital body composed of a broad spectrum of personnel–eg, physicians, nurses, social workers, priests, and others, which addresses the moral and ethical issues within the hospital. See DNR, Institutional review board. alleging that
so-far-unpublished memos contain evidence of "a violation of the
public trust in the judicial confirmation process on the part of
Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee The U.S. Senate established the Committee on the Judiciary on December 10, 1816, as one of the original 11 standing committees. It is also one of the most powerful committees in Congress; among its wide range of jurisdictions is investigation of federal judicial nominees and oversight of . This includes
evidence of the direct influencing of the Senate's advice and
consent rule by the promise of campaign funding and election support in
the last mid-term election." Miranda's complaint did not offer
any details, but that is a very serious charge. Perhaps the Republican
leadership could pull itself out of its defensive crouch and press the
Ethics Committee to investigate.
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