Posted on 01/17/2018 2:47:28 PM PST by jazusamo
Judicial and LGBT advocates are slamming Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for scheduling a vote on a horde of judicial nominees ahead of a possible government shutdown.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is slated to vote Thursday on 17 judicial nominees, who were re-nominated by President Trump at the beginning of the month.
Under Senate rules, nominees have to be approved by the full Senate in order to carry over into a new session of Congress.
But advocates are accusing Grassley of trying to avoid public scrutiny by slipping controversial candidates opposed by Democrats into an already stacked agenda.
“It is disgraceful that, as the nation teeters on the brink of a government shutdown, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Grassley is forcing a vote on almost two dozen nominees, including a number of highly controversial judicial nominees who are being considered for lifetime appointments to the federal bench,” Sharon McGowan, director of strategy at Lambda Legal, said in a statement. “It is the height of cynicism for Senators to be forcing a vote on these nominees at a time when millions of families are worrying about essential government services being cut off at the end of this week, and suffering in other ways as a result of Washington’s divisiveness and dysfunction.”
In a statement, Taylor Foy, a spokesman for the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman, said the meeting agenda has been in the works for weeks and has nothing to do with the government funding deadline, which is midnight Friday.
“Furthermore, Senator Grassley does not believe there will be a government shutdown, so any claim that the funding deadline is somehow part of the calculus is totally baseless,” he said.
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The Dems are crying like little boys and girls for having to do their job and vote for judicial nominees because there Might be a shutdown.
BUMP!
OMG, Grassley is making sausage again.
A “horde” of nominees.
Nope.
No bias there.
I am pissed that it is only 17.
How DARE Republicans try to get things done before the Democrats shut down the government?
"One man, plus truth, is an army!"
We won, you lost. Didn’t Obama say that?
reforming the judiciary cannot be achieved unless some more well-qualified and level-headed candidates are confirmed.
Trump set a record for confirmed judges in 2017, let’s hope he can do that again in ‘18.
Congressional power waxes and wanes and switches sides, judicial power is generational in scope.
Yep, Lydia wouldn’t know what a horde is if she saw one.
Your loathing is well placed. One of few professions where less productivity seems to result in more rewards.
Politics is a scam and we’re suckers for playing .
Corollary: If they’re hurting, you’re hitting them!
Under Senate rules, nominees have to be approved by the full Senate in order to carry over into a new session of Congress.
But advocates are accusing Grassley of trying to avoid public scrutiny by slipping controversial candidates opposed by Democrats into an already stacked agenda.
Making inroads into our country's decades of judicial tyranny could be one of the most significant pieces of this President's legacy.
Go for it, Sen. Grassley!
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