Sociology

George W. Bush, the former president of the United State of America, revealed a systematic, tightly and aggressive means of initiating a lifetime selection to the federal bench in less than a month from his inauguration. He appointed many judges while he was in power. In his appointments however, he excluded the American Bar Association from participating in the appointment of judges claiming that they were politicizing the process. Bush wanted by all means to be like Ronald Reagan in appointing judges. He further went a head and used the judicial selection team which Ronald Reagan was using to select the best conservative thinkers.

Some of the judges he appointed include John Robert who was 53 years old and Samuel Alito who was 57 years old. These appointees were the youngest of all the nine justices. The former president of the U.S. had appointed them to be the U.S. Supreme Court. This appointment was heavily criticized because George W. Bush had appointed them without following the required procedures. He was also accused by the senate democrats of making appointment of conservative judges a priority.

The decision of Bush, who is the former president of America, was seriously criticized by the Democrats such as Sen. Charles Schumer who was one of the judiciary committee. He accused him of favoring the republicans and not considering advices from democrats.

George W. Bush appointed the judges for his personal interest. He wanted to appoint someone who was conservative and a person who would favor his policies of inequality in America. It is evident that Bush favored the whites than the black Americans since he wanted to appoint lawyers who would abide by his rules. This president further, was against the democrats and he did not want them to dominate the judicial system such as the Supreme Court, the courts of appeals, and the district courts. Bush had appointed many judges, for example he submitted Robertss nomination for the position of the Chief Justice and he (Robert) was commissioned after five months. Bush wanted to take full control of the senate.

George W. Bush likewise, wanted to appoint many judges of his own who would dominate the Supreme Court so that he could strengthen his political base and agenda. Bush was interested in influencing the erosion of the right to privacy, discrimination in payment of salaries, and stopping the communities from applying democratic process to guarantee racial diverse schools. In addition, the former president of America had used judicial selection process as a tool of improving his political status and as a tool to galvanize his base.

Bush made his own decisions of appointing the judges without following the traditional rule of consulting the opposition party i.e. democrats. The former president had politicized the whole process of appointing judges. This was against the promises he had made when he was campaigning for presidency. He had promised that he will choose judges on merits and not basing on ideologies.
In conclusion, Bush used the judiciary to accomplish partisan goals. He misused the whole process because he wanted to strengthen his political base and improve his popularity. However, he did not achieve what he was after. His popularity did not only deteriorate but he had also extremely low democratic control of the senate. The former president had worsened the situation when he nominated Robert Conrad yet his ultraconservative views had completely disqualified him from appointment to the bench.