# The U.S. and Judicial Appointments Now.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-and-judicial-appointments-now/415278>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 11, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-and-judicial-appointments-now/415278 "2007-08-11T20:00:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jim\_B](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jim_b/32/4338_2.png) [@Jim\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_B)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-u-s-and-judicial-appointments-now/415278/1 "2007-08-11T20:00:21Z")

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I just want to know how the Democratic U.S. Senate is handling Pres. Bush’s judicial appointments now. Are they blocking all of them? Are they blocking _ **any** _ of them? I know when Republicans controlled the Senate, there was a controversy about Democrats using an unprecedented filibuster strategy. But now the Democrats are in control. So blocking controversial judicial appointments should be easy now, no?

BTW, I did use a search engine to try to find out about this very subject matter. But for some reason I didn’t get too much. Maybe my search engine terms weren’t good enough. I don’t know. But now I submit my question in this forum.

And as always, thank you in advance to all who reply 🙂