President Bush pleaded with the Senate yesterday to speed the process of approving his nominees to the federal bench. “America is not getting the justice it needs,” he said.

A year after Bush asked senators to rise above the “bitterness of the past” in considering his first 11 judicial nominees, only three of them sit on federal appeals courts. Bush said that is a miserable record.

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