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To: Meet the New Boss
Grassley isn’t going to arbitrarily change the way the Senate committee process works.

Now, you've changed your argument.

Your first argument was that Obama holdovers would "drag their feet on document production".

Democrats and Deep State Holders dragging their feet is not part of the normal Senate committee confirmation process. The normal preparation time to prepare for the confirmation process by both sides is about a month.

Grassley limiting the preparation time to one month wouldn't be an example of a chairman "arbitrarily changing the way the Senate committee process works".

The Democrats and Rosenstein don't have the power to "drag their feet" and delay a confirmation hearing.

Repeating what I said once again, it is up to the majority chairman, Senator Grassley, to determine when the committee votes and I know that after that, it only requires 51 votes on the floor to end debate.

47 posted on 07/12/2018 11:53:49 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign

Grassley is not going to end debate without giving the Democrats the opportunity to review Kavanaugh’s papers the same way Republicans had the opportunity to review Kagan’s and Sotomayor’s papers.

In order to review the papers, those in possession of the DOJ have to be produced.

In the confirmations of Kagan and Sotomayor, there was no incentive for DOJ swamp people to drag their feet on producing the papers. They wanted them to be confirmed.

Here, because we are coming up on an election, there is an incentive for the swamp to drag its feet in hopes that maybe they can delay this until after the election.

Your thinking that Grassley and McConnell will vote to end debate and confirm Kavanaugh if the DOJ is slow to produce the papers for the committee to review is a fantasy.

And why would anybody who wants to see Kavanaugh confirmed object to Sessions throwing more people at the document production task in order to get it done more quickly?

I can understand why the New York Times objects to Sessions throwing more bodies at the task to get it done faster, but I can’t understand why conservatives would agree with the New York Times on this.


49 posted on 07/12/2018 12:04:07 PM PDT by Meet the New Boss
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