Confirm Them is reporting that Judge Saad has withdrawn his name from consideration for the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. By doing so he has joined the ranks of other excellent judges such as Estrada and Bork who have been kept off the bench by spineless Republicans and shameless Democrats. Detroit News writes:

Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin, both Michigan Democrats, had blocked Saad’s confirmation, angry that a Republican-controlled Senate failed to confirm Michigan judicial nominees during the Clinton Administration. Last year, Senate Democrats agreed to step aside and allow confirmation of several judicial nominees, but Saad wasn’t one of them.

Saad, 56, was nominated to the federal appeals court in 2001 and 2005. He received the highest marks in the American Bar Association’s rating system for judicial nominees.

Marshall over at Confirm Them says:

His withdrawal tonight ends a shameful saga of character assasination perpetrated by obstructionist Democrats. But perhaps the most shameful part of the tale is that complicit Republicans allowed it to succeed. When Henry Saad was under attack � when Minority Leader Harry Reid violated Senate rules by referencing confidential information about Judge Saad on the floor of the Senate � too many Republicans sat by and let Reid and his Senate cronies get away with it.

So tonight, I hope every Republican Senator feels ashamed.

My sentiments exactly, except I’m concerned the ’shameful saga of character assasination’ will continue, only against other well qualified nominees.