Bush nominates two U.S. District Court judges for Alabama

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated then-U.S. Attorney Jeff Sessions to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. His nomination was rejected in the Senate Judiciary Committee due to allegations from left-wing groups that he had made racially-insensitive remarks and had unfairly prosecuted "civil rights activists" in south Alabama for committing voter fraud. The deciding vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee came from none other than the late Sen. Howell Heflin of Alabama.

Fast forward a decade to 1996. Sen. Heflin retired from the U.S. Senate, and Jeff Sessions beat out Democrat Roger Bedford to take Heflin's old seat. Sessions was re-elected in a landslide in 2002 and now serves on the same Judiciary Committee that - thanks to Howell Heflin - voted against his district court nomination back in 1986.

This week, President Bush nominated one of Senator Sessions's closest associates, Kristi DuBose, who has worked for him since his days as a U.S Attorney in Mobile, to the same court that Heflin prevented him from joining 20 years ago.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush on Thursday sent the Senate the names of two Alabamians [the second was Keith Watkins, who will replace retiring Judge William Harold Albritton in Alabama's Middle District] to fill federal court vacancies in Montgomery and Mobile.

Kristi DuBose, who worked for Jeff Sessions when he was a U.S. attorney, state attorney general and U.S. senator, was tapped as a federal judge in Alabama's Southern District. DuBose, a graduate of Huntingdon College and alumna of Emory University School of Law, is currently a federal magistrate judge. She will succeed U.S. District Charles R. Butler, who retired.

Folks, that ain't just winning...it's running up the score.