/ Source: msnbc.com staff and news service reports
President Bush said Thursday that his stalled judicial nominees deserve an “up-or-down vote,” but declined to throw his lot in with conservative Christians who have called Democratic tactics a “filibuster against people of faith.”
“I think people are opposing my nominees because they don’t like the judicial philosophy of the people I’ve nominated,” he said at a White House news conference. “... I don’t ascribe a person’s opposing my nominations to an issue of faith.”
But he insisted that his nominees deserve an up-or-down vote in the Senate and said those votes are being unfairly blocked by some who want judges to “legislate from the bench.”
