Over on ConfirmThem.com Andrew Hyman has an excellent post on why the judges, including William Myers, should be re-nominated. It says, in part, "The suggestion that Myers should be abandoned right now might have some slight merit if all reasonable options under the Senate rules had been exhausted for getting Myers a post-Deal vote in the full Senate. But all such options have NOT been exhausted. The Third Branch Conference and other interested groups are preparing to launch an effort in September to use the Senate rules in order to demand that the Senate go into executive session and consider nominees pending before the full Senate. Such a demand is not filibusterable. Then any sixteen Senators would sign a cloture petition, and so there could then be a cloture vote on people like Myers, Boyle, Smith, and any other nominee who has been reported out of committee."
Many of these highly qualified nominees have been waiting way too long to be abandoned. The Senate GOP should do whatever it can to give these nominees a fair up-or-down vote.