HOUSE MEMORIAL 23

47th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2005

INTRODUCED BY

Teresa A. Zanetti

A MEMORIAL

REQUESTING THAT THE UNITED STATES SENATORS REPRESENTING THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO SUPPORT THE PRESIDENT'S NOMINEES TO THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT.

     WHEREAS, Article 2, Section 2 of the United States constitution states that 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 occurring on the United states supreme court during the one hundred ninth congress; and

     WHEREAS, there is a possibility of needing to elevate a sitting justice on the United States supreme court to the position of chief justice during the one hundred ninth congress; and

     WHEREAS, activist judges on some federal courts have frustrated the constitutional structure that prescribes that laws be written by elected representatives of the people; 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 received a favorable report by the United States senate committee on the judiciary;

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the state's United States senators be requested to move quickly to confirm all nominations by President George W. Bush to the United States supreme court; and

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be transmitted to both senators of the United States representing New Mexico.

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