Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Confirmation Hearing on the Nominations of Leslie Southwick, to be Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Janet T. Neff, to be District Judge for the Western District of Michigan, and Liam O'Grady, to be District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Nominee
Author: Leslie H. SouthwickPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617039136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
President George W. Bush nominated Leslie H. Southwick in 2007 to the federal appeals court, Fifth Circuit, based in New Orleans. Initially, Southwick seemed a consensus nominee. Just days before his hearing, though, a progressive advocacy group distributed the results of research it had conducted on opinions of the state court on which he had served for twelve years. Two opinions Southwick had signed off on but not written became the center of the debate over the next five months. One dealt with a racial slur by a state worker, the other with a child custody battle between a father and a bisexual mother. Apparent bipartisan agreement for a quick confirmation turned into a long set of battles in the Judiciary Committee, on the floor of the Senate, and in the media. In early August, Senator Dianne Feinstein completely surprised her committee colleagues by supporting Southwick. Hers was the one Democratic vote needed to move the nomination to the full Senate. Then in late October, by a two-vote margin, he received the votes needed to end a filibuster. Confirmation followed. Southwick recounts the four years he spent at the Department of Justice, the twelve years on a state court, and his military service in Iraq while deployed with a Mississippi National Guard Brigade. During the nomination inferno Southwick maintained a diary of the many events, the conversations and emails, the joys and despairs, and quite often, the prayers and sense of peace his faith gave him--his memoir bears significant spiritual content. Throughout the struggle, Southwick learned that perspective and growth are important to all of us when making decisions, and he grew to accept his critics, regardless of the outcome. In The Nominee there is no rancor, and instead the book expresses the understanding that the difficult road to success was the most helpful one for him, both as a man and as a judge.
Legislative and Executive Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Report on the Activities, March 31, 2009, 111-1 Senate Report 111-11, (STAR PRINT)
Author: CIS Annual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Texas Review of Law & Politics
Author: Confirmation Hearing on the Nominations of Leslie Southwick, to be Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Janet T. Neff, to be District Judge for the Western District of Michigan, and Liam O'Grady, to be District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the JudiciaryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Judges
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1468
Book Description
Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon BaumannPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187282
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
The Sex-Starved Marriage
Author: Michele Weiner-DavisPublisher: Simon & Schuster Limited
ISBN: 9780743252416
Category : Psychosexual disorders
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
'Not tonight, darling, I've got a headache...' An estimated one in three couples suffer from problems associated with one partner having a higher libido than the other. Marriage therapist Michele Weiner Davis has written THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE to help couples come to terms with this problem. Weiner Davis shows you how to address pyschological factors like depression, poor body image and communication problems that affect sexual desire. With separate chapters for the spouse that's ready for action and the spouse that's ready for sleep, THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE will help you re-spark your passion and stop you fighting about sex. Weiner Davis is renowned for her straight-talking style and here she puts it to great use to let you know you're not alone in having marital sex problems. Bitterness or complacency about ho-hum sex can ruin a marriage, breaking the emotional tie of good sex.