[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 53 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3667]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   CAN THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AFFORD ANY MORE CLINTON-APPOINTED JUDGES?

  (Mrs. SEASTRAND asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. SEASTRAND. Mr. Speaker, one of the most important things that a 
President, any President, does during his tenure is to fill the vacant 
Federal judgeships in the Federal judiciary. The other body does have 
the responsibility to ``advise and consent,'' but ultimately, the 
responsibility for who sits on the Federal bench is the President's.
  President Clinton has a miserable track record for appointing judges. 
His picks are by and large doctrinaire liberals. Let's take the Judge 
Baer debacle.
  Judge Baer, a Federal judge in New York, refused to admit into 
evidence 75 pounds of cocaine and 4 pounds of heroin even though the 
person caught with the drugs gave a full confession. His reasoning in 
the case was faulty at best, and implied that the New York City police 
were corrupt and wrong for investigating a clear case of probable cause 
involving a huge amount of drugs.
  Mr. Speaker, Bill Clinton has already appointed 25 percent of all 
Federal judges. Can the American people afford any more?

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