This morning the Senate Judiciary Committee delayed the Southwick vote again. This occurred after already having postponed the Southwick vote on May 24^th to June 7th. Now the vote has now been delayed until next week. According to an article today in the Wall Street Journal, Southwick's "nomination looked safe enough until two weeks ago, when liberal critics, haveing scoured his 7,000-plus rulings on the Mississippi appeals bench, uncovered two allegedly hanging offenses. Both were about words that the judge himself never uttered but were contained in decisions he joined--one involving homosexuals, the other race."

# posted by Kristen Lucero @ 12:16 PM