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Hardball: McConnell Changes Rule to Overcome Obstruction of Trump's Judicial Picks, Dems Fume
Townhall.com ^ | October 11, 2017 | Guy Benson

Posted on 10/11/2017 10:38:32 AM PDT by jazusamo

Hardball: McConnell Changes Rule to Overcome Obstruction of Trump's Judicial Picks, Dems Fume

This may seem like an abstruse parliamentary maneuver -- and it is -- but Mitch McConnell just escalated the judicial wars in a minor but meaningful way. If frustrated conservatives want the GOP Senate majority to " start acting like one ," McConnell's decision eliminates a lever Democrats have been using to stymie some of President Trump's judicial picks. In that sense, he's very much acting like a majority leader; a Democratic one. Try not to let your eyes glaze over as you read the details of this move, which involves dramatically reducing the power of so-called "blue slips" on judges, with which Senators from the home state of a presidential selection have been able to withhold their consent in order to prevent that nomination from moving forward. Not anymore. McConnell warned Democrats that he was leaning this direction last month, hoping they'd abandon this form of partisan blockade. They didn't. So he's followed through on his threat -- via the Weekly Standard:

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; bluesliprule; blueslips; cocainemitch; federaljudges; judges; judicialnominees; mcconnell; mcconnellsenaterule; mitchmcconnell; pmcconnellblueslip; senate; senaterule; third100days; trump; trumpjudiciary; ussenate; winning
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To: jazusamo

Good, now we can see very Conservative judges in Cali. That’s immensely important.


41 posted on 10/11/2017 11:18:50 AM PDT by wiseprince
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To: jazusamo

Things are so partisan anymore because stupid Senate rules allow the minority to have total veto power if there isn’t 60 votes. So presidents are taking more and more power for themselves. Simple majority to get things through is all it should take.


42 posted on 10/11/2017 11:20:23 AM PDT by pas
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To: jazusamo

Took him long enough. I would guess he is taking a beating from the voters.


43 posted on 10/11/2017 11:26:48 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: jazusamo
The RINOS and GOPe are now feeling the first tsunami of The Bannon Effect...and watch their cooperation multiply.

Leni

44 posted on 10/11/2017 11:28:10 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: jazusamo

Dole,Lott,Frist,McConnell.

What a waste of 25 years.


45 posted on 10/11/2017 11:28:11 AM PDT by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: IC Ken

“I will take a WIN anyway I get one.”

I agree. I think this is the right attitude.


46 posted on 10/11/2017 11:28:12 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Kalamata

Better late, than never.

Don’t beat him up now, when he finally does the right thing.


47 posted on 10/11/2017 11:29:56 AM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: jazusamo

McConnell playing hard ball? It is to laugh....


48 posted on 10/11/2017 11:31:04 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Let's Roll

Exactly.


49 posted on 10/11/2017 11:31:53 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: Innovative

OK


50 posted on 10/11/2017 11:33:19 AM PDT by Kalamata (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out - D. Horowitz)
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To: pfflier; Let's Roll

I doubt it. Look at post #13.

Talk is cheap.


51 posted on 10/11/2017 11:33:57 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Vacate the chair! Ryan must go.)
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To: HamiltonJay

Finally! But almost a year was wasted. He should have done it an hour after Trump was sworn in.


52 posted on 10/11/2017 11:41:07 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: Common Sense 101

He did this because Trump warned M/Bitch that Bannon has him on his sights.


53 posted on 10/11/2017 11:42:43 AM PDT by beergarden
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To: jazusamo

I’m not praising him for doing his job. And particularly for doing it years late.

It needed to be done, but he deserves no special notation for doing it long past due.


54 posted on 10/11/2017 11:47:50 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: Common Sense 101
 
 
I second that reckon, bigtime.
 
 

55 posted on 10/11/2017 11:50:32 AM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: jazusamo

FINALLY, he reached down and found that they were actually there!


56 posted on 10/11/2017 11:59:01 AM PDT by Dick Bachert (Why are damn near ALL the SEX FIENDS Democrats?)
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To: jazusamo

OK, who put the pods in McConnell’s cellar?!


57 posted on 10/11/2017 11:59:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Uncle Sam 911

Yes, these wingnut courts like the Ninth Circus will never be cleaned-up if blue state Senators can continue to blue slip.


58 posted on 10/11/2017 12:01:50 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: HamiltonJay
ABOUT DAMN TIME!! What the hell took you nearly a YEAR!! WTF!!

The big dollar donors and bundlers started griping in public last week. See how fast the GOPe can move when the money's threatened?

59 posted on 10/11/2017 12:10:39 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: jazusamo

I guess when the big donors and others took Turtle to the woodshed the other night, it was a real come-to-Jesus moment.

The fact that Bannon has announced that all senators running for re-up will be primaried, except Cruz, may jerk the slack out of some other of these laggards, too.


60 posted on 10/11/2017 12:14:38 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Read: Psalm 145. The whole psalm.....aloud; as praise to our God.)
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