Posted on 07/04/2017 6:45:42 PM PDT by T Ruth
Senate Democrats are turning to procedural tactics to delay confirmation of President Trumps appeals court picks, and conservative groups are firing back with a new ad in Michigan trying to force two Democrats to clear a path for one embattled nominee.
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The senators are flexing the chambers blue slip tradition, which gives individual lawmakers an exceptional amount of say in judges from their home state. Under the tradition, if both home-state senators dont return their blue slips, signaling acceptance, Senate leaders will hold off on action on that pick.
Neither Ms. Stabenow nor Mr. Peters have returned their blue slips. Spokesmen for both senators say theyre still studying the issues on the Larsen pick.
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This is someone the citizens of Michigan have overwhelmingly approved as their Supreme Court Justice, said Carrie Severino, chief counsel at the JCN. Its absurd [Democrats] would attempt to block her confirmation.
Conservatives for months have fretted over the possibility that Democrats, denied the power to block judges by partisan filibuster, would find other ways to derail Mr. Trumps court picks.
Justice Larsen and Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras, who Mr. Trump picked for the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, had been seen as early test cases because both nominees come from states with two Democratic senators.
Neither Sens. Amy Klobuchar nor Al Franken have returned their blue slips signaling acceptance of Justice Stras. Both senators are currently reviewing his record.
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The Senate Republican Leadership is ‘turtles all the way down’.
To heck with these traditions.Follow the Constitution.
All these “roadblocks” are in reality GOP-enabled delay tactics. The cold hard truth is these people are just as culpable as “their friends across the aisle”. Every bit as guilty.
If they were true patriots, all these “roadblocks” would disappear immediately.
#PitchforkTime
Spine? He’s ideologically aligned with them.
Democrat fascists preach against holding to tradition all the time so why pretend it matters in this case?
By all means give your beloved McConnell a pass.
The RATs won’t stop using this rule.
But your your buddy McConnell can stop it.
McConnell is part of the Republican leadership resistence against Trump.
Take it to the mattresses.
but there is a lot of distance — light years, in fact — between my insisting that we blame democrats for democrat obstruction, and hosting a love fest for that idiot mitch mcconnell. people at FR make that sort of mistake a lot.
I see a butt kicking coming in 2018 for the senate.
Yes, that POS Reid did that, in order to get leftist ideologues who have no regard for the law appointed instead of moderate, thoughtful, judicious types.
Yes, that POS Reid did that, in order to get leftist ideologues who have no regard for the law appointed instead of moderate, thoughtful, judicious types.
What would you rather do. Spend millions of dollars running ads
against democrats now? Or with a stroke of a pen or a public announcement
McConnell can change that tradition, thus saving millions of dollars
that can be used for 2018?
Save the money. Change the tradition. It that simple.
Trump should wait till August recess and appoint the whole damned list of HIS judges then!!! Recess appointments let the squealing begin!!!!
McConnell needs to step up, pull his head out of his shell, and get rid of this stupid rule.
“All these roadblocks are in reality GOP-enabled delay tactics. The cold hard truth is these people are just as culpable as their friends across the aisle. Every bit as guilty.”
The “real” cold hard fact is that the GOPe is totally culpable. Their “friends across the aisle” have only the “power” that The Turtle allows them. What we are witnessing is the GOPe attacking President Trump.
The turtle needs to retire.
Our Fake Congress hard at work.
I think DJT knows this. He really is in a “pickle” because it’s him and us against all of D.C. They could vote him out at any time, for essentially no reason.
I think that’s why he always speaks so highly of the GOPers, because he has to work with them to get anything passed.
He is an amazing negotiator. I can’t think of anyone else on this earth that could and would do as much as he has done thus far, given the traitors with which he has to deal.
Nevertheless, I say my nightly prayers that God would remove all the GOPe vermin and replace them with true patriots. There are just so many of them.
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