"Senator Rand Paul may block selection of judge" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe staff May 06, 2014
An influential US senator from Kentucky has threatened to derail President Obama’s nomination of a Harvard Law School professor to fill a rare vacancy on the federal Appeals Court in Boston, the court that helps establish the region’s legal climate.
US Senator Rand Paul said in a letter to Senate leadership that he will block the confirmation of David Barron to a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit until the White House releases controversial memos Barron drafted that justified the US military’s unchecked killing of American citizens overseas....
Barron would not comment when reached by telephone Monday. The White House did not respond to a request for comment....
Barron is married to former Boston Globe editorial columnist Juliette Kayyem, a Democratic candidate for governor of Massachusetts....
Also a former DHS official in the Obummer administration!
Such incestuous relations in politics and rulership.
Paul’s interference with Barron’s confirmation vote, “it’s more policy oriented and ideological,” said Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond School of Law professor who closely follows the nomination process, but Paul’s obstruction could interfere with Reid’s attempt to push district and appeals court judges through the confirmation process before the upcoming elections, Tobias said.
He questioned whether Reid will postpone Barron’s vote, so that Paul does not interfere.
“He can make this complicated and may do that,” Tobias said.
No, he won't.
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Related:
White House offers to show senators drone memo
Globe says they should, but when they did they were still keeping things secret, so the Globe called for more transparency, not an end, to the program, and what is most saddening is seeing the lead liberals of the law endorsing him.
David Barron clears hurdle toward appeals court position
Leahy says no drones in Canada or Germany, huh? I think they may want to talk to you about that, Pat (and then he disappeared through a hole in a hedge).
He's finally up in the air and now one step away from the Supreme Court.
Of course, change comes slow on such things.
Time to test out the new policy:
"Drone strike in Yemen kills militants, civilians
SANA — A US drone strike in southern Yemen killed nine suspected Al Qaeda militants and three civilians Saturday, authorities said. The attack struck a vehicle carrying the militants in the Sawmaa area in the al-Bayda province as another car carrying civilians passed by. One of the civilian survivors said an SUV he was in was tossed about 20 yards (AP)."
It works!
Related:
The Drone Wars: Yemen
The Drone Wars: Iraq
The Drone Wars: Pakistan
Somalia has not reportedly been struck since I started the series.
