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To: All
Quoting Lindsey Graham who replaced Chuck Grassley as chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee:
"They never thought Hillary would lose. So Democrats changed the rules to accommodate then-Pres Obama's wishes
to stack the court in their favor. Harry Reid’s and Chuck Schumer’s rule change has come back to haunt them." [snip]

I like it.

16 posted on 01/14/2019 5:42:28 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Liz; Al

There’s more to that statement, Liz.

“Graham, the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, emphasized that former Democratic Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid eliminated the Senate filibuster for federal appellate judicial nominees in 2013. Republicans later retaliated by eliminating the filibuster for Supreme Court appointments, meaning that a simple majority — rather than a 60-vote supermajority — is sufficient to confirm new Supreme Court nominees.”

“My Democratic colleagues felt when they were in charge we should confirm judges by a majority vote,” Graham told Fox News’ Chris Wallace. “They changed the rules to accommodate President Obama. They tried to stack the court. They never thought [Hillary] Clinton would lose. So what you’re gonna have is Harry Reid’s and Chuck Schumer’s desire to stack the court on their Democratic watch has come back to haunt them.”


48 posted on 01/15/2019 4:17:35 AM PST by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
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