The Senate voted to confirm Nassau County Circuit Court Judge Brian J. Davis to be our new U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Florida.
Congratulations!
The United States Senate rejected bigoted attacks from know-nothing Iowa Republican Charles Grassley, who has now opposed and lost on four (4) judicial nominations that were supported by the Republican Senators from the nominee's state.
Senator Grassey, a bigot and homophobe, scurrilously attacked Judge Davis for being too sensitive to African-Americans' rights, for defending Dr. Jocelyn Elders in a 1994 NAACP speech, for favoring equality, and for criticizing the mendacious civil rights decisions of a controversial former Monsanto corporate lawyer, tatterdemalion Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, whom outgoing Justice Thurgood Marshall famously compared to a "black snake."
Senator Charles Grassley said that Judge Brian Davis "views the world through a lens that I think is inappropriate and unacceptable for a District Court Judge."
I think that Iowa Republican Senator Charles Grassley, a racist sexist homophobe, is as lugubrious a goober as ever made a chair squeak.
Senator Charles Grassley's insincere effort to attack Judge Davis for defending Jocelyn Elders is a stench in the nostrils of teh nation.
Senator Charles Grassley is an embarassment to all thinking Iowans.
Most Iowans are good people, and should learn more about Senator Grassley's record if he ever seeks re-election. He has been in Congress since 1975, havng first been elected to the House to take the seat of Rep. H.R. Gross, one of my boyhood heroes, who took on waste, fraud and abuse. Grassley often does the same, and he likes whistleblowers.
Although U.S. Senator Charles Grassley is not even a lawyer, he has long been the top Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, where his works and pomps, whims and crotchets and his whiny, nasal voice and cognitive miser mien pull down the collective IQ and suck the energy right out of the room.
Senator Grassley's racist antics delayed Judge Davis' confirmation for some 660 days -- 22 months.
Due to Senator Grassley's animus on this and other judicial nominations, Senators finally eliminated filibusters for all nominations except Supreme Court nominations, resulting in Judge Davis' confirmation on December 20, 2013, by bipartisan vote of 68-26, after approving a motion to proceed by vote of 56-36.
Longtime Fourth Circuit State's Attorney Harry Shorestein named Brian Davis the first African-American Chief Assistant State's Attorney in the State of Florida in 1991; in 1994, Judge Davis was elected Circuit Judge.
Congratulations!
Judge Davis replaces the full-time position of Judge Henry Lee Adams, Jr., who has taken senior status. Like Judge Dvais, Judge Adams is an African-American.
Judge Adams ruled against the City of St. Augustine in several First Amendment cases, including our epic Rainbow flags case in 2005, leading to flying Rainbow flags on the Bridge of Lions June 8-13, 2005 in honor of Gay Pride.
The Middle District of Florida runs from Nassau, Duval and St. Johns Counties southwest across the state, embracing Orlando and Naples.
Of course, the St. Augustine Record has not exactly kept you up to date on Judge Davis' nomination for the past two years: no articles in its database, other than a passing mention in an article on a local member of the judicial nominating commission that recommended Judge Davis to Senators William Nelson and Mario Rubio.
The Orlando Sentinel, News4Jax, Fernandina Observer and Jacksonville Daily Record did report the confirmation vote. The Florida Times-Union reported the delays, but not the confirmation vote.
Hopelessly provincial Reichwing Republicans run the Record and they're continuing to run it into the ground. We deserve the news -- al of it.
As demonstrated by its illogical editorial on the Fourth Amendment (see below), the WReckord doesn't even known the difference between state and federal courts. It couldn't even bring itself to report Judge Brian Davis' confirmation vote. Wonder why?
They're dull Republicans and they don't look for news very much or work very hard -- "let 'em eat handouts from the Chamber of COmmerce" might as well be their motto.
We shall overcome!
Beware: If Republicans took the Senate in 2014, Charles Grassley would likely chair the Judiciary Committee, making him the most regressive Judiciary Committee Chair since James O. Eastland (D-Miss., 1956-78) and Strom Thurmond (R-S.C., 1981-1987). This energumen bears watchin'!
What do y'all reckon?
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