Political Quotes

“Mr. President, we have a judge who will be in front of the Senate, and it is my understanding it has been worked out that there will be a voice vote. I want to thank the leadership of the appropriate committee, the Judiciary Committee, for handling this with dispatch. In a big-growth State such as Florida, where there is such a caseload in the Federal judiciary, when we have a vacancy it needs to be attended to right away. Fortunately, the two Senators from Florida have tried to take the politics out of the selection of judges by letting the interviewing process, the selection process be done by a panel of prominent citizens called a judicial nominating commission, and they recommended these three to the two Senators. The Senators then interviewed them and let the White House know, and the White House agreed--much to the credit of this White House--that they would select from among those we submitted. Those we submitted are the ones who came out of the judicial nominating commission. Thus was the selection of Judge Robert Scola, whom we will confirm today, and who was nominated in May of this year. Judge Scola received his bachelor's from Brown University, went to Boston College for law school, and graduated cum laude. He practiced law as a criminal defense attorney representing individuals and corporations in both State and Federal courts and then he spent 6 years working as a prosecutor in the Miami-Dade County State Attorney's office.…”