Marion Edwyn Harrison states for the Free Congress Foundation:

"The Second Session of the 109th Congress is about to reconvene after another of its frequent recesses. The Senate again will face its (generally shirked) Constitutional duty to 'advise and consent" to Presidential nominations to the Federal Judiciary. Doubtless the same liberal Democratic Senators will continue their obstructionism, endeavoring to block as many nominations as possible until the Memorial Day recess, then until the summer recess, then until the Labor Day (or extended summer) recess, then - bullseye! - until the autumnal adjournment of the Second Session preceding the November 7, 2006 elections (in which one third of Senate seats and all House seats are up for election).

"The media focuses upon Supreme Court nominations. However, nominations to the United States Courts of Appeal for the First - Eleventh and District of Columbia Circuits are immensely important. Those Circuits, and the more specialized United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, account for over 95% of all final Federal appellate adjudications.

"...Because there is so little general media focus upon individual nominees short of the Supreme Court, those readers who know their Senators would do well to discuss the problem with them (whether to encourage objectivity or merely to express appreciation and encouragement, depending upon the Senator). The imminent emphasis appears to be upon the Boyle and Kavanaugh nominations."