Fox (search) News reports that Senate Democrats are ready to allow Bush's judicial nominees come to a vote, as long as they aren't minorities. The nominations of Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, Carolyn Kuhl, and Janice Rogers Brown, who are all minorities, are still considered objectionable to Democrats and aren't part of the deal. Democrats will allow votes on other "non-objectionable" nominations if President Bush promises to relinquish his Constitionally granted powers to make recess appointments.

Under the agreement, Democrats will allow votes on 25 non-controversial appointments to the district and appeals courts. In exchange, Bush agreed not to invoke his constitutional power to make recess appointments while Congress is away, as he has done twice in recent months with judicial nominees. [...]

The Senate confirmations of the 20 U.S. District Court judges and the five U.S. Appeals Court judges will come over the next three months, Daschle said. Other judicial nominees will be considered case-by-case, he said. [...]

Democrats called Bush's appointments "a flagrant abuse of presidential power" but Republicans said that Bush wouldn't have had to use recess appointments if Democrats hadn't been blocking his nominees.

A handful of Senators have held the judicial process hostage for several months, but it was Bush, who was abiding by the text of U.S. Constitution, who was committing "a flagrant abuse" of power.