Posted on 10/23/2020 3:10:14 AM PDT by cotton1706
The Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination to the Senate floor. The Senate is expected to vote on Monday, with confirmation seemingly in the bag.
The Judiciary Committee vote was unanimous. Democrats boycotted the session.
Committee rules require that two members of the minority party to be present for business to be conducted. However, chairman Lindsey Graham proceeded with the vote anyway. “We’re not going to allow [Democrats] to take over the committee,” he stated.
Meanwhile, President Trump has nominated a replacement for Judge Barrett on the Seventh Circuit Court Appeals. The nominee is Thomas Kirsch, age 46, currently the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana.
A Harvard Law graduate, Kirsch has also served as counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the DOJ’s Office of Legal Policy. He also has experience in private practice as a partner at a major law firm where he handled complex litigation.
I understand that Vice President Pence, a fellow Hoosier, advocated Kirsch’s nomination to the Seventh Circuit. In any event, Kirsch seems well qualified for the position, given his high level experience in both criminal and civil litigation.
The Senate approved Kirsch’s nomination for U.S. Attorney by a voice vote. This time around, he will face fierce opposition from Democrats.
However, Republicans have the votes to confirm Kirsch and enough time (approximately two months) in which to get it done. Barring unforeseen developments, Kirsch will be confirmed by the end of the year.
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Obama had 55 in EIGHT years.
The Judiciary has been remade.
Excellent.
Get it going Lindsey.
More winning please.
Can they vote for her at 1201am Monday?
Can they vote for her at 1201am Monday?
Remade on paper. If it isn’t remade in practice by rolling back egregious and outrageous unconstitutional edicts, it will be for naught. Start with tossing out Obergefell.
Dems boycotted the session? So they chose not to show up for work?
Makes them seem like they just don’t care. This isn’t a protest or some social group you belong to, it’s your paid job Dems, to be there and be doing your work.
If they were mature individuals they would have shown up and voted either for or against advancing the judge.
Boss move filling that Circuit Court seat.
I wouldn’t say remade. I would say restored to where it was before Obama. All the damage he did has been repaired. Now in Trump’s second term we can make real progress. Hopefully Trump gets to replace at least one of Breyer or the Wide Latina as well as replacing Justice Thomas with an Originalist, and hopefully he can flip a few more Circuit Courts. For example, if he could replace even two Democrat appointees on the 9th Circuit it would officially be flipped.
That's the thing about committee rules... you have to BE THERE to object to the violations. Deny a quorum by not sending at least one observer, and you're handing the Republicans an opportunity. And even our shakey leader -- Lindsay Graham -- recognized it and took it.
“. . . 1201am Monday?”
00:00:01
If the Democrats take back the Senate is it possible that Trump might never get another judge confirmed in his second term?
Not if Senate Rule 22 (where "cloture" procedure is defined) is followed.
30 hours must elapse after cloture vote, before the substantive vote is taken. Cloture vote is scheduled for Sunday.
Those time intervals - in fact any Senate rule - can be waived on unanimous consent. That won't happen with this nominee.
Yes. Harry Reid's Senate did this to GWB.
They can slow-walk nominees. That’s what happened during Bush’s first term after Jim Jeffords joined the democrats. Leahy was head of Judiciary and moved very few nominees, and mostly only the moderates that Bush appointed to “work across the aisle.”
Boss, indeed!
Good
I wondered the same thing.....
I would be willing to DOCK their pay for NOT WORKING
“That’s the thing about committee rules... you have to BE THERE to object to the violations.”
And the rules of the Senate prevent them from raising a point of order on the floor to complain about the lack of a quorum in the committee when the nomination was approved. The rules state that as long as it was approved with a majority of senators present, no point of order will be permitted on the floor objecting to the nomination or bill being considered.
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