Yes!
Good.
About time!
“Future presidents will benefit too”
Because Democrats always heed traditions established by Republicans.
Give credit where it’s due.
Clap, just one, for Mitch.
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Good!
Only 2 years late. McConnell sucks. RINOs suck.
Tried everything else before doing it.
No sympathy to democrats.
McConnell first sought to cut debate time on executive nominees, with the Senate voting 51-48 to overrule existing precedent. Later on Wednesday, McConnell will do the same for the District Court positions.
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I watched C-SPAN2 and a couple of minutes ago the vote was completed to change the rule for District Court nominees also. It was like deja vu with the vote being 51-48.
Good. It is about time! president Trump has been President for 2+ years, repubs. Repubs should stop being weak sisters and being unsupportive of their President.
AFT
Is Mike Lee trying to steal the DRAMA QUEEN title from Cruz, or something?
This really sucks - the filibuster for nominees was NEVER INTENDED to be used like this and it should have been history the moment the Left started this crap. But NO!, our Drama Queens had to ‘resist’ on ‘principle’.
SICKENING.
like I said earlier
It’s a good start, now remove all but 1 or 2 demonrats from every committee, Tip O’neill would approve!
Finally!..The backstabbing hemorrhoid no good turtle got one right!!
Now.
What will McConnell and his senate Majority do with All this extra Time gained?
I know McConnell Shirley wants to get right to work with our POTUS on drafting a mighty IMMIGRATION LAW, and supporting THE WALL, and acting immediately to SAVE HEALTH CARE.
Right?
Yes. While we have a majority.
And yes it is the right thing in principle. Why should a single Senator be given the full power of the whole Senate - to hold up a nomination by their own decision alone, with a “blue slip” or any other tradtion? They shouldn’t.
Yet in time we must pray we hold our majority, for without it we will regret this.
The good part for now is Trump is nominating a lot of younger judges, which will give us a longer time before they are replaced, which means we will have many election cycles before a lot of them retire.
SUPER! Finally! The end of DimoCrappic obstructionism
at least when it comes to the normal work of the Senate in reviewing judicial appointees
we’ve all seen how damaging, and dangerous .. are some of the communistic-Nazi-leftist-progressive “judges” that decide cases and people’s lives based on Mao’s little red Book, instead of the American Constitution
Did that worthless lump actually do something useful for a change?
They should have done this right after the 2016 election.