Posted on 03/17/2016 7:43:52 AM PDT by Cyberman
Several of the Republican senators expressing a willingness to meet with Judge Garland were like Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire and Mark S. Kirk of Illinois, incumbents facing difficult re-election fights. Ms. Ayotte said she still opposed holding a confirmation vote.
The willingness of Republican senators to meet with Judge Garland highlights how the degree of difficulty in blocking a nomination rises once there is a face and a résumé to go along with it. Judge Garland was confirmed in 1997 by a vote of 76 to 23 for his current seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. At the time, he received generous praise from some Republican senators....
Senator Charles E. Grassley, the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman who has been the target of ire of Senate Democrats in recent weeks, has also agreed to meet Judge Garland after the two-week Easter recess beginning on Monday, officials at the White House said...
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RINO’s. Lemme guess, Gramnesty, McInsane, etc...
Pathetic.
The man is Anti-2a. That’s all we need to know about him.
Yeah, any more complaints over the nomination and 0bama will put his name forward to be nominated.
He’s anti-life and anti-2nd amendment.
That’s enough to utterly disqualify him.
There’s nothing to talk about.
The tried and true tactic of Republicans - preemptive unconditional surrender at the first hint of a challenge
Wow...the folk in DC are truly evil! I keep hoping God will intervene someway somehow but it looks like America is cooked!
How dare anyone in obuma’s government say he can’t have what he wants, when he want’s it and how...
McConnell and the rest of them haven’t found their ‘pairs’ yet to stand up, but you watch, when Trump gets to the Oval Office, they’ll find them, but by then they will look like ‘raisins’....
Hopefully these da**ed A-h**les will meet at the city sewer plant (and fall in)
ah yes, the effing RINO’s of the GOPe.
Politicians have been putting on an act of “Good cop bad cop”
There is only one uni-party, not 2 parties, one world establishment including their allies the media. They are all out to destroy Trump. So we Americans have to support Trump
That is exactly what the MSM wants you to believe. Meeting with the guy and getting a hearing are entirely different. The media wants you to believe that these Senators have some influence on Grassley and McConnell. They are just positioning themselves for their reelection this fall.
A sellout of America is coming... again...
Collins
Flake
Ayotte
Kirk
Portman
Inhofe
Grassley
Cochran
On my way to work I thought I saw part of a hillside give way. No, it was the Senate Republicans beginning to cave as usual.
I fully expect that if the Senate Majority Leader ultimately refuses to to set a hearing for this nomination, leftist infiltrators like Kirk, Ayotte and Flake will threaten to jump ship and “become” demonicrats. If they get enough of their kind to do this, they can flip the senate and get the hearing by destruction.
Yes and they murdered Scalia
http://www.activistpost.com/2016/02/was-scalia-murdered-forget-conspiracy-theory-this-is-real.html
Only if Trump gets in do we stand a chance
ILLINOIS STATE RIFLE ASSOCIATION
“The big news is the nomination of Merrick Garland for the United States Supreme Court. In 2007, Garland voted to undo the DC Court decision which struck down the ban on individuals owning a handgun. Garland also voted to uphold the Clinton Administration’s illegal retention of records of lawful firearm owners who used the NICS system. He didn’t prevail on any of these cases, but if he gets to the United States Supreme Court he will. Garland is not the friend of the gun owner.”
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