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 Inside Democrats’ Playbook To Destroy Republican Judicial Nominees

The leftist attacks on the faith, family, and character of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett are — sadly — neither surprising nor new.

By Chip Roy
October 1, 2020

The initial battle plan by establishment leftists to attack the faith, family, and character of Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett is neither surprising nor new. As a counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee for more than five years, I gained a clear inside look at the tactics used by Senate Democrats to personally attack GOP judicial nominees.

In 2003, I was working on the committee for Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, when Judge Janice Rogers Brown and Judge Priscilla Owen received their respective nominations to the D.C. and 5th Circuit courts of appeals.

That year, for the first time in our nation’s history, Senate Democrats launched a filibuster attack on numerous Bush circuit court nominees. Two of their victims were Brown and Owen, of whom I can attest to their character and congeniality. What were their great crimes? They were conservative women — in the case of Judge Brown, she was a minority conservative woman.

For two years, Democrats continued the unprecedented filibustering and constant attacks. Brown and Owen were 2 of 10 circuit court nominees Democrats delayed or stopped during President George W. Bush’s first term. Brown and Owen were eventually confirmed, but not without cost.

Prior to Brown’s confirmation vote, Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C., then chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, quipped Brown’s only qualification for the job was that she could be a person Republicans could put on the court whose “face is black.” Prior to her nomination, Brown was a California state Supreme Court judge with an outstanding record of achievement in both the public and private sectors. Yet Watt also accused her, a black woman, of being against the wants and needs of black Americans.

As for Owen, The New York Times editorial board argued Senate Democrats should once again filibuster her nomination to stop “extreme conservatives” from “hijacking the federal judiciary.” Owen is now the chief judge on the 5th Circuit.

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