I HAD NOT HEARD, NOR READ, THIS INFO - JUST ONE OF THOSE "FYI" THINGS:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/nyregion/senator-robert-menendez-stalls-obama-move-to-promote-judge-patty-shwartz.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha23
When a Democratic president nominates a federal judge from a state with two Democratic senators — and the Senate itself is controlled by Democrats — a speedy confirmation hearing typically follows.
Judge Patty Shwartz
Senator Robert Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey.
But in an unusual case of intraparty defiance, Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey is holding up President Obama’s nomination of a judge to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the only time a Democrat has tried to block one of Mr. Obama’s judicial nominees.
Mr. Menendez would not comment. But the nominee, Patty Shwartz, has been in a relationship for more than two decades with the head of the public corruption unit for New Jersey’s federal prosecutor. And that unit investigated the senator during his 2006 election fight, an inquiry Mr. Menendez has long contended was politically motivated.
THERE IS MORE IN THE LINK. NJ, ONLY SECOND TO THE THUGS IN CHICAGO, IL.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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