HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

48

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING THE UNITED STATES SENATORS OF THE STATE OF HAWAII TO SUPPORT PRESIDENT BUSH'S JUDICIAL NOMINEES.

 

WHEREAS, Article II, Section 2 of the United States Constitution states the President "shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States"; and

WHEREAS, there is a high likelihood of at least one vacancy on the United States Supreme Court during the 109th Congress; and

WHEREAS, there is a possibility of the need to elevate a sitting justice on the United States Supreme Court to the position of Chief Justice during the 109th Congress; and

WHEREAS, activist judges on some federal courts have frustrated the constitutional structure which prescribes that laws shall be written by elected legislatures; and

WHEREAS, President George W. Bush has expressed his commitment to appoint federal judges who will strictly interpret the United States Constitution; and

WHEREAS, in the past, a minority of senators have used dilatory tactics to prevent a Senate floor vote on several of President George W. Bush's judicial nominees, all of whom were reported favorably by the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2004, the Senate concurring, that the legislature of the State of Hawaii requests our United States Senators to move quickly to confirm all nominations by President George W. Bush to the United States Supreme Court; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to each Senator of Hawaii's Congressional Delegation.

 

 

 

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Report Title:

U.S. Senators to support floor vote for judicial nominees