HM 1105

1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
3	Congress to work to allow a timely vote on the floor of
4	the United States Senate on all judicial nominations.
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6	WHEREAS, Article II, Section 2 of the United States
7	Constitution states the President "shall nominate, and by and
8	with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint
9	Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the
10	Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States," and
11	WHEREAS, there is a high likelihood of at least one vacancy
12	on the United States Supreme Court during the 109th Congress,
13	and
14	WHEREAS, there is a possibility of the need to elevate a
15	sitting justice on the United States Supreme Court to the
16	position of Chief Justice during the 109th Congress, and
17	WHEREAS, activist judges on some federal courts have
18	frustrated the constitutional structure which prescribes that
19	laws shall be written by elected legislatures, and
20	WHEREAS, President George W. Bush has expressed his
21	commitment to appoint federal judges who will strictly interpret
22	the United States Constitution, and
23	WHEREAS, a minority of senators have used dilatory tactics
24	to prevent a Senate floor vote on several of President Bush's
25	judicial nominees, all of whom were reported favorably by the
26	Committee on the Judiciary, NOW, THEREFORE,
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28	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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30	That the Congress of the United States is requested to work
31	to allow a timely vote on the floor of the United States Senate
32	on all judicial nominations.
33	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
34	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
35	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
36	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
37	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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