by Bob Brigham [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

by Brian Leubitz [courtesy of Calitics - Front Page]

Remember Leslie Southwick? Well, in case you forgot, he's the guy who wrote that children should be removed from gay parents. Oh, and W appointed to him to be a federal judge. Yup, that guy. If you recall, DiFi is basically the only reason his nomination got past the judiciary committee. She broke ranks with the other Dems and voted in support of the nominations with her conservative bretheren in the Republican party. Yay DiFi, thanks for tossing the LGBT community under the bus again. You really have a knack for it.

Well, once you recall all of that, the other important news is that the nomination is coming up for a floor vote very soon. And our old pal DiFi is going around telling other Senators that she's getting no negative comments about Leslie Southwick at ALL! Everybody loves Leslie! Except, that's not really the case. Her own staffers, and other senators, seem to be surprised given the news from the real world that she's getting lots of mail about this. 

The good folks at FireDogLake, have some ideas on what to do. Namely, make sure that DiFi hears a loud and clear message that this vote stunk then, and it stinks now.  Oh, and there will be a presser next Tuesday. I'll try to be there. Mailing info blatantly ripped off from FDL over the flip. 

by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

BURLINGTON, VT – Yesterday, Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) introduced a resolution calling on the Judiciary Committee to consider impeachment proceedings against Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Jim Dean, Chair of Democracy for America (DFA), issued the following statement in response to the introduction of this impeachment resolution: 

"One thing is clear.  Alberto Gonzales is no longer fit to serve as the Attorney General of the United States.  If President Bush won't fire him, then Congress must exercise its constitutional authority and impeach the Attorney General.  Democracy for America supports today's resolution calling for the Judiciary Committee to investigate impeachment of the Attorney General.  Only after Gonzales is gone can integrity be restored to the Justice Department."

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Governor Schwarzenegger appointed 26 new judges on Friday -- and once again, they were sadly lacking in diversity.
 
Of the 26, only one was Latina and only three were African-American. Only eight were women (including the only Latina and two African-Americans).
 
Assemblymember Dave Jones, chairman of the Assembly's Judiciary Committee, is rightly taking the Governor to task. He and Speaker Nunez were promised by the administration that it would step up its recruitment and appointment of minority and women judges. Schwarzenegger's appointments of minority and women judges lag far behind those of Governor Davis and are near levels of more than a decade ago by Governor Wilson.