Are Democrats Causing Delays in Court?

[J.R. Brown]

Contrary to a pro-Bush TV ad, Republicans share the blame for "empty courtrooms," and delays are shorter now than they were before Bush.

May 6, 2005

Summary

A multimillion-dollar ad campaign blames Democrats for the fact that "courtrooms sit empty." In fact, there are now half as many judicial vacancies as when Bush took office. And of the 46 federal judgeships that remain vacant, Bush has named only 16 replacements.

The ad also says cases are being delayed in federal courts for "thousands of Americans." Actually, official statistics show cases typically being decided more quickly now than they were in 1999, when it was Republicans opposing Clinton's judicial nominees.

http://factcheck.org/article324.html

[Beet]

That's good, but I wonder how many people who see those ads are going to be like "hey, let's go check this at factcheck.org". Nope, they will go along like they did with the Willy Horton ads.

[J.R. Brown]

That's good, but I wonder how many people who see those ads are going to be like "hey, let's go check this at factcheck.org". Nope, they will go along like they did with the Willy Horton ads.

Maybe factcheck should put out their own ads.