I’m with Democratic Rep. David Scott of Georgia….I’d like to know why our Democratic president is nominating conservative judges to sit on the Federal bench.
Months of controversy exploded into public view again when Scott, in an interview on NewsOne Radio with Roland Martin, said it is incumbent on civil rights groups to convince Obama to pull down Georgia district court nominees Michael Boggs and Mark Cohen, and said the president will thank them for it later. Boggs, a former state legislator, has come under intense fire from civil rights leaders, abortion rights groups and those representing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people over past votes to keep the confederate insignia on the Georgia state flag, to tighten restrictions on access to abortion and to ban same-sex marriage. Cohen, meanwhile, has taken heat for successfully defending Georgia’s voter ID law in court.
“What your audience needs to understand is the level of disrespect that this president has done to this nation on these appointments,” Scott said in the radio interview. “The president is gone in 29 months. These individuals will be left on the courts to impact and affect all future generations.”
The Georgia congressman highlighted the apparent incongruence of Obama nominating a judge who defended a voter ID law at the same time Attorney General Eric Holder is suing states like Texas over such laws. Scott said states have voter ID laws “for no other reason than to deny African-Americans their right to vote.”
“Let us be frank here. I’m proud of this first black president. I love this first black president,” said Scott, who is black. “But when you are hurt by the one you love, there’s no greater pain than that.”
As noted in the article I linked to, the White House response has been that if President Obama didn’t “compromise” with conservative Republicans, the seats in question would remain empty, but what seems to be lost on the Obama White House is the fact that Republicans in Congress have time and time again shown that the only “compromise” they’re interested in with President Obama is his capitulation to their demands.
“I’d like to know why our Democratic president is nominating conservative judges to sit on the Federal bench.”
Because it is his job to fill the seats. I suspect the ratio of D’s to R’s remains high on his watch.
“Let us be frank here. I’m proud of this first black president. I love this first black president,” said Scott, who is black.
These words sound awefully racist for a Congressman, or for any person. But since he’s black, he gets a pass, right?
Zach, thanks.
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Rep. Scott’s not a white-supremacist.
There’s nothing in the comments you quoted to suggest he’s a “black-supremacist.” It’s not his fault that Americans who are 100% European-American have made ethnicity an issue.