HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.R. NO.

58

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING HAWAII SENATORS DANIEL k. INOUYE AND DANIEL k. AKAKA TO SUPPORT THE FLOOR VOTE AND NOMINATION OF JUDICIAL NOMINEE MIGUEL ESTRADA.

 

 

WHEREAS, on May 9, 2001, President Bush nominated Miguel A. Estrada to fill a vacancy on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Estrada's credentials go uncontested beginning with his mastery of the English language and American culture upon his arrival to the United States as an immigrant from Honduras, his graduation magna cum laude from Columbia University and Harvard Law School; and

WHEREAS, over eighteen months has passed without a vote on the Senate floor; and

WHEREAS, the Senate Judiciary committee has issued a favorable report to the United States Senate yet, because of partisan politics, Democratic Senators threaten to filibuster a Senate Floor vote; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Estrada has received support from liberal and conservative colleagues alike who attest that he is one of the most brilliant and effective appellate lawyers in the country; and

WHEREAS, organizations who support Mr. Estrada include the League of United Latin American Citizens, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, Hispanic National Bar Association, Hispanic Business Roundtable, and The Latino Coalition; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Estrada would be the first Hispanic in the country to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit - an important and prestigious position within the nation's Court of Appeals; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2003, that this body requests that Hawaii's U.S. Senators, Daniel K. Inouye and Daniel K. Akaka, work to allow a vote on the floor of the United States Senate, and to support the appointment of Miguel Estrada to the U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Resolution be transmitted to that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to U.S. Senators Daniel K. Inouye and Daniel K. Akaka.

 

 

 

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Report Title:

Support for floor vote and judicial nomination; Miguel Estrada