Bush calls for up-or-down Senate vote on judicial nominees News
Bush calls for up-or-down Senate vote on judicial nominees

[JURIST] In a statement issued Monday while visiting Europe for World War II commemorations, President Bush once again urged the Senate to put his judicial nominees to an up-or-down vote [White House press release]. Two of the nominees highlighted in the Monday statement, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen [US DOJ OLP profile] and North Carolina US District Judge Terry Boyle [US DOJ OLP profile], were nominated by Bush four years ago to fill vacancies on the federal appeals bench and have twice been passed through the Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] only to be filibustered on the Senate floor by Democrats, prompting recent GOP efforts to ban filibusters on judicial nominations [JURIST report]. Both nominees have been rated as well-qualified by the American Bar Association. UPI has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. Read UN General Assembly Resolution 181.

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara resigns during Vietnam Conflict

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