Earlier this month, the Senate approved 69 of President Obama's outstanding judicial nominees. However, pro-life Democrat Michael Boggs, a target of the pro-abortion left, was not among them.
Boggs was nominated as part of the blue-slip process in the Senate, where his state's senators — Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, both Republicans — recommended to the White House that Boggs be placed on a federal bench. While the process is non-binding, presidents often take blue-slip support or opposition into consideration.
Abortion advocates have said Boggs, who sits on the Georgia Court of Appeals and is a former Democratic state legislator, is unqualified to be a federal judge because of a handful of votes made during his time in office.
Those votes include supporting a Georgia constitutional amendment to protect marriage, “Choose Life” license plates, a strong parental notification law for minors who want to have abortions, and the state keeping the Confederate insignia on its flag.
Boggs also supported putting the names of abortion doctors online.
As reported by Secular Pro-Life, this record caused NARAL president Ilyse Hogue to say that Boggs “believes that there is one definition of what it means to live your life as an American.”
“The thing is, that’s anti-American,” said Hogue, who after the Senate vote said Boggs' lack of passage was a victory for abortion supporters. Boggs is now finished as a nominee, unless Obama nominates him again.
Hogue and others have also accused Boggs of hiding parts of his voting record, which were public record but he did not originally disclose as part of the consideration process. Obama nominated Boggs as part of a seven-nominee deal that included judges in both parties. According to Huffington Post, the other six candidates have been confirmed.