The withdrawal of Judge Saad allows Republicans to recall the horrible manipulation of the 6th Circuit for gain in a specific case, as the above link relates, and also highlights the necessity of Republican's heeding Mr. Despain's call for an up or down vote. One of the best known legal aphorisms is "Justice Delayed is Justice Denied." The current Democratic Senate is united in its intention to deny Justice to the Administration's judicial nominees. Republicans must be equally united in their efforts to see justice is done.

I have stated elsewhere that the Third Circuit is a concern, but the implacable hostility to the Administration's nominees in Michigan especially has to end. A well qualified Arab American Judge was just hounded from an appellate Court nomination, in a state with one of the largest and best organized Arab American constituencies in the country. Senator Stabenow, dangerously incompetent or not, http://www.townhall.com/blogs/capitolreport/TimChapman/story/2006/03/14/189892.html should be made to suffer for this at the polls next year.