March 18, 2005
By John McCaslin
The Washington Times
An overwhelming majority of Americans 82 percent think qualified candidates for the nation's highest courts deserve an up-or-down vote in the Senate, while a similar majority wants partisan politics removed from the judicial confirmation process.
"This sort of shoots what Harry Reid, Robert Byrd and others are saying about the right to filibuster right out of the water, huh?" says Washington publicist Mark Coyle, referring to recent remarks by the Democratic senators from Nevada and West Virginia respectively.
Examining the survey of 800 registered voters conducted on behalf of the Judicial Confirmation Network (JCN) by Ayres, McHenry & Associates, JCN counsel Wendy Long says it is "abundantly clear that the American people are tired of the partisan, political maneuvering and the unwarranted character assassinations against qualified candidates for the federal bench."
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