Many of you have written Article III Groupie seeking her views on the latest developments in judicial nomination warfare, including the looming battle in the Senate over the filibuster. As you might have guessed, A3G is loving all the drama. And she'd love to chime in, but as you all know -- from her incessant (and by now annoying) apologies -- she's extremely busy with her day job.
So, for the time being -- and for the benefit of the many new readers of this blog -- A3G would like to reissue a UTR classic: "Fili-BUSTED! Magnificent judicial divas have been stopped dead in their tracks. Now UTR asks: Who is the biggest diva?" (available here). This post conducts a head-to-head comparison, in terms of their "diva power," of three state court judges nominated to federal appellate courts: Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla R. Owen, and Carolyn B. Kuhl.*
President Bush introduces the Judicial Divas at an Oval Office press conference, under the watchful gaze of RuPaul, non-judicial diva par excellence.
Issued last June, "Fili-BUSTED" was one of A3G's first posts ever (her third, to be precise). It has now become timely once again, thanks to the recent, triumphant emergence from the Senate Judiciary Committee of Janice Rogers Brown, "The Uppity Black Diva," and Priscilla Owen, "The Lone Star Diva." These delicious divas, with their brilliant minds and conservative worldviews, have put liberals across the country in a state of panic and fear. When the New York Times dedicates an entire staff editorial to attacking you, you know you've made it!
At the risk of sounding immodest, A3G thinks that "Fili-BUSTED" is a fun and fabulous piece of work. It's also important for UTR lexicographical purposes, because it was the post in which A3G first coined the term "judicial diva." So if you've never read it -- or if you have, but are having a boring Friday and looking for ways to procrastinate -- A3G commends it to you highly. To read it, click here. Bon appetit!
* Judge Kuhl, who was a nominee to the Ninth Circuit as of last June, declined renomination in the 109th Congress.
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