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	Miguel Estrada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Estrada was born to an upper-class family in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
		George W. Bush nominated Estrada to a position on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on May 9, 2001; the court is very influential, and is widely seen as a stepping stone to the Supreme Court.
		Estrada is currently (as of 2005) a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher LLP, where he is a member of the firm's Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group and the Business Crimes and Investigations Practice Group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miguel_Estrada (570 words)

	USDOJ: OLP: Estrada Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Estrada graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree from Columbia College, New York in 1983.
		Estrada served as a law clerk to the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then clerked for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court.
		Estrada served as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York.
	www.usdoj.gov /olp/estradabio.htm (209 words)

	Miguel Estrada - SourceWatch
		Miguel Estrada, whose nomination became a flash point for Democratic opposition to President Bush's judicial choices, withdrew from consideration for an appeals court seat Thursday after Republicans failed in seven attempts to break a Senate filibuster.
		For Estrada - who at one point was rumored to be a possible Supreme Court nominee - the withdrawal ends a two-year waiting game in which his nomination for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia never got beyond the Senate floor.
		Estrada received disgraceful treatment at the hands of 45 United States senators during the more than two years his nomination was pending, said Bush, who aggressively tried to get the Senate to approve Estrada early this year but had been silent on the issue in recent months.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Miguel_Estrada (1050 words)

	Miguel Estrada- U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Court agreed with Estrada that the context of the statute showed that the disputed clause only applied when a suspect was under control of federal authorities, and that to imply that the statute meant something that would not fit with the context of the rest of the statute would be an incorrect interpretation.
		Estrada’s position in his brief--that the language of the statute was unambiguous and to read a requirement for economic motive into the statute would "warrant a different construction".
		Estrada represented the plastics company, the two issues in the case were whether the district court erred in admitting evidence at trial and whether the district court erred in denying to declare a mistrial.
	www.judicialselection.org /nominees/estrada.htm (1664 words)

	Floor Statement Delivered by U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein On the Nomination of Miguel Estrada
		Estrada's lack of judicial experience was just one factor that made it more difficult to review his way of thinking and to determine what kind of judge he would become if confirmed.
		Estrada, Raymond Fisher had a depth and breath of other experiences that allowed the committee to fully examine the nominee and his nomination and come to an informed decision.
		Here, with Miguel Estrada, we have a man with no judicial experience and who has been the subject of a large volume of concern about his temperament and his ability to fairly and impartially judge a given situation.
	feinstein.senate.gov /03Speeches/estradafinal.htm (5395 words)

	Gibson Dunn - Bio - Estrada, Miguel (Bio) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Miguel A. Estrada is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher. He is Co-Chair of the firm's Appellate and Constitutional Law Practice Group.
		Estrada served as Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States. He previously served as Assistant U.S. Attorney and Deputy Chief of the Appellate Section, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York. ; In those capacities, Mr.
		Estrada is a Trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society. In December 2004, Washingtonian Magazine named him one of the top constitutional law lawyers "who could become one of the legends of the Supreme Court bar." In 2004, Chambers and Partners described Mr.
	www.gibsondunn.com /insidegdc/whoswho/bio/?contactId=1aaad0bbdb1ddc8b (409 words)

	Miguel Estrada - dKosopedia
		Estrada was born to an upper-class family in [1].
		After law school, Estrada served as a law clerk to the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and then clerked for the Honorable Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court.
		George W. Bush nominated Estrada to a position on the D.C. Court of Appeals in 2002; the court is very influential, and is widely seen as a stepping stone to the Supreme Court, where Estrada would be the first Hispanic nominee.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Miguel_Estrada (396 words)

	The Jellyphants: Invertebrate GOP abandons Miguel Estrada
		Estrada's confirmation was a virtual impossibility during that time, but that situation should have changed after the Republican victory in the 2002 elections.
		Estrada's nomination was moved to the full Senate by the new Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee, on a party-line 10-9 vote on January 30
		Estrada's nomination was blocked by 45 senators who were willing to participate in the painless gesture of voting no on cloture.
	shinbone.home.att.net /jphant.htm (1632 words)

	OpinionJournal - Featured Article
		Estrada served under--support Justice's refusal to release the memos.
		Estrada and I worked together, he was a model of professionalism and competence." And, "In no way did I ever discern that the recommendations Mr.
		Estrada were a mainstream conservative, I would vote for him." If that bore even a casual relationship to the truth, the Senator wouldn't be so clearly avoiding the testimony of fellow Democrats who will tell him that is precisely what Mr.
	www.opinionjournal.com /editorial/feature.html?id=110003141 (624 words)

	People For the American Way - Miguel Estrada
		Estrada was criticized prior to the hearing for his vigorous argument in one of his anti-loitering cases that the NAACP did not even have standing on behalf of its members to pursue the claim that the ordinance had a discriminatory impact.
		Estrada has “consistently downplayed” the problem of “the use of racial profiling by law enforcement.” Although he acknowledged the existence of the problem at his hearing, he continued to “downplay” it, suggesting that we have “come a long way” on such issues.
		Estrada has clearly failed to demonstrate that he possesses the judicial temperament and the commitment to fundamental civil and constitutional rights and liberties that must be shown by a nominee for such an important, lifetime position.
	www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=8076 (1538 words)

	News - Miguel Estrada Withdraws Nomination - Center for Reclaiming America
		On September 4, 2003, Miguel Estrada surrendered his nomination to the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, due to the shameful practices of a minority of senators within the United States Senate.
		Miguel Estrada had put his life on hold for 2-1/2 years, while a minority within the Senate stubbornly refused to give this highly qualified nominee the vote he so clearly earned and deserved.
		Estrada received disgraceful treatment at the hands of 45 United States Senators during the more than two years his nomination was pending.
	www.reclaimamerica.org /Pages/NEWS/newspage.asp?story=1360 (1132 words)

	What's At Stake: Tell your senators to stop Miguel Estrada from becoming a federal judge. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Miguel Estrada has never been a judge, since law school he hasn't written articles about legal issues and since his nomination he has consistently refused to answer important questions from senators about his views and his legal philosophy.
		Miguel Estrada is a "stealth candidate" who is rumored to be in line for an appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
		What we do know about his record is very troubling, such as the narrow view about the role of the courts he expressed during a radio show and statements by his former supervisor that Estrada is too much of an ideologue to be a federal judge.
	www.unionvoice.org /campaign/No_Estrada/explanation (220 words)

	USATODAY.com - Judicial nominee Estrada withdraws name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		WASHINGTON — Miguel Estrada, a Honduran-born, Harvard-educated lawyer whose nomination to a federal appeals court here was fiercely opposed in a Democratic filibuster, withdrew his name Thursday.
		Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, countered that Estrada's fate was the result of Bush's push for a conservative judiciary and the White House's refusal to turn over documents from Estrada's tenure at the Justice Department from 1992 to 1997.
		Estrada's filibuster was the most well-known of many efforts by Senate Democrats to block candidates they say are too far to the right.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2003-09-04-estrada_x.htm (675 words)

	Froggy Ruminations: Let’s Have a Fight, Shall We?
		Estrada pretty much started the whole issue of judicial filibustering when his nomination to the DC Circuit Court failed to reach cloture in the Senate 7 times.
		As a reminder, Estrada was born and raised in Honduras and emigrated to the US at the age of 17, learned English, and went on to graduate cum laude from Columbia and Harvard Law.
		The vehement opposition to Estrada's nomination to the DC Circuit by extreme leftist groups in the past makes me feel extremely comfortable with his conservative bonafides, but it is his experience in the Solicitor General’s office that establishes his Con Law abilities.
	froggyruminations.blogspot.com /2005/10/lets-have-fight-shall-we.html (630 words)

	Miguel Estrada Withdraws Name from Consideration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Estrada's supporters in the Senate were unable to end an six-month-long filibuster engineered by pro-abortion Senate Democrats.
		Estrada was first nominated to the appeals court in 2001.
		According to many of Estrada's supporters, pro-abortion Senate Democrats feared that Estrada would eventually be nominated to the Supreme Court and were petrified at the thought of drawing the ire of NARAL's Kate Michelman, who announced in January that she expected Senate Democrats to filibuster candidates NARAL found unacceptable.
	www.nrlc.org /news/2003/NRL09/miguel_estrada_withdraws_name_fr.htm (720 words)

	Independent Judiciary: The Nominees (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Estrada is described by people who have worked with him as a conservative ideologue who is unable or unwilling to distinguish his personal views from what the law requires.
		Estrada submitted a brief to the Supreme Court as amicus curiae on behalf of the United States government in the case of United Mine Workers v.
		Estrada's position, striking down the Chicago ordinance because it gave police too much discretion in enforcement and because it was overly broad, potentially encompassing a large degree of harmless activity.
	www.independentjudiciary.com /nominees/nominee.cfm?NomineeID=2 (880 words)

	CNN.com - Estrada withdraws as judicial nominee - Sep. 4, 2003
		Miguel Estrada, nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, withdrew his name from consideration Thursday after spending more than two years in limbo amid partisan wrangling over President Bush's judicial nominations.
		Estrada, a former clerk to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and an assistant solicitor general during the Clinton administration, is a partner in a Washington law firm.
		Estrada's supporters charged that the Democrats were unfairly blocking a well-qualified candidate because of his conservative views and because they did not want to give Bush credit for nominating a Hispanic.
	www.cnn.com /2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/04/estrada.withdraws (899 words)

	Byron York on Miguel Estrada on National Review Online
		First Estrada said he should have challenged the story's premise that a Supreme Court Justice "can be moved one way or the other by 23 year olds." Then he began to backtrack on the story itself.
		Estrada said "it is possible" that he may have come to such a conclusion about a clerk candidate.
		By the end of the day, his nomination appeared to be in terrible shape, all because he was not ready to give a clear and consistent answer to a question that could have been anticipated before the hearing began.
	www.nationalreview.com /york/york092702.asp (1840 words)

	Miguel, Ma Belle By Dahlia Lithwick
		Orrin Hatch recently whined that Estrada's Democratic opponents were "anti-Latino," the implication being that the real racists in Washington are the Democrats standing between Estrada and his opportunity to break down a significant racial barrier on the bench.
		Menendez complains that Estrada had not set up internships or mentorship programs specifically aimed at helping young Latino lawyers, and he told Democrats that his ethnicity would be irrelevant to his day-to-day work as a judge.
		To his detractors, Estrada's principal failing is that his privileged upbringing in Honduras and beyond were too "white" somehow—too Columbia and Harvard Law and Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher.
	www.slate.com /id/2079445 (1259 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: The borking of Miguel Estrada by Paul Greenberg - Feb 24, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The nominee is Miguel Estrada -- teenage immigrant, then graduate magna cum laude of both Columbia University and Harvard Law School, vigorous prosecutor and constitutional scholar.
		Miguel Estrada is qualified for this seat on the court because of learning, experience, hard work and his great promise as a judge.
		Come to think, young Estrada served as a law clerk to Justice Anthony Kennedy at the Supreme Court, and it occurs to us that the most fervid opposition to his appointment may be based on the deep, dark fear that, with his intelligence and diligence, he could turn out to be the next Antonin Scalia.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/paulgreenberg/pg20030224.shtml (843 words)

	MALDEF - Latest News and Events
		Estrada because he hid his views from the Senate and the public by evading questions and, judging from his sparse record, appears not to be fair and open minded."
		MALDEF is joined in its opposition to Estrada by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, the Willie C. Velasquez Institute, United Farmworkers of America, The U.S. Hispanic Leadership Institute, and numerous Latino groups and labor leaders from across the country.
		Estrada had the affirmative obligation to show that he would be fair and impartial to all who would appear before him.
	www.maldef.org /news/latest/estrada.cfm (2962 words)

	Hispanic Business - Supporters Plan Ads for Estrada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Democrats say Estrada has not been forthcoming about his judicial philosophy and that too little is known about a man who would join an important appeals court viewed as a stepping stone to the Supreme Court.
		Estrada's supporters, at a news conference, challenged Democratic complaints that too little was known of Estrada's legal record, presenting a 2-foot high stack of legal briefs involving Estrada.
		Estrada, 41, came to the United States from Honduras as a teenager and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1986.
	www.hispanicbusiness.com /news/newsbyid.asp?id=8662 (556 words)

	Townhall.com :: Columns :: Miguel Estrada -- Next stop Supreme Court by Emmett Tyrrell - Sep 11, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Estrada is the first circuit or district judicial nominee ever to be defeated by filibuster.
		The reason that a man of such normative views as Estrada has been opposed by the Democrats is that they see themselves as the party of the ethnic minorities.
		Moreover, Estrada is so manifestly qualified for the court that, were he confirmed, he might very well be nominated by the Bush administration to the Supreme Court.
	www.townhall.com /columnists/emmetttyrrell/et20030911.shtml (952 words)

	Concerned Women for America - Top-10 Arguments for a Senate Vote on the Estrada Nomination
		The Senate may begin debating the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on February 5, 2003.
		Estrada is unqualified since he has no judicial experience.
		Estrada's supervisor in the 1990s in the Solicitor General's office at the U.S. Department of Justice.
	cwfa.org /articledisplay.asp?id=3228&department=LEGAL&categoryid=nation (752 words)

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