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Posted on 01/22/2019 4:29:41 PM PST by jazusamo
President Trump announced Tuesday his intent to renominate 51 of his judicial nominees, who didn’t see confirmation votes during the last Congress and whose nominations had expired at the end of last year.
Out of the 51 picks for the federal bench, nine were for federal circuit court vacancies including Neomi J. Rao, who was tapped to fill Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s old seat on the D.C. Circuit.
Liberal groups have already vowed to oppose her nomination.
Ms. Rao, who works in the White House budget office, came under scrutiny after several news outlets reported earlier this month about college writings in which she defended white men, suggested intoxicated women are partly to blame for sexual assaults, and said LGBTQ issues were “trendy” political movements.
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He doesn’t back down. God bless him.
53 GOP Senators now is so much better than last year’s 51!
Rao needs to be seated. Big time.
Exactly, it’s great he came right back and renominated these people.
Liberal groups have already vowed to oppose her nomination.
Do ya think???????????????
Trump to reanimate 51 expired judicial nominees.
vacancies need to be filled and little legislation will get to Senate from House . All they have to do?
McConnel will not consider anything Trump opposes.
WTF is wrong with the Senate?
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It’s frustrating to me how long it takes to get these people installed. We’re two years into Trump’s first term, and we have over 50 judges outstanding.
I realize not all of them were nominated right off, but I do not think we’ve been moving these guys along as fast as we should have, even though we’ve got a record so far.
Hey, there were a lot of openings. There still are!
Fill them! Approve these judges right away. No more weeks with no new judges seated!
Actually McConnell and the Senate did a good job on judges in the 115th Congress but these nominations expired at the end.
It is now the 116th Congress and these nominees will be confirmed.
It is frustrating.
The Rats took advantage of the 30 hour debate rule and slowed the process down to a crawl. They’ll probably keep it up in this session.
Nominations do not roll over from one Congress to the next. Flake held up the process in the last Congress, probably hoping that this Senate would be won back by the democrats. Of course, Schumer can probably drag these nominations out, just like the last ones, by making them all go through the process of being examined and questioned for the full 30 hours each, or whatever the amount of time they’re allowed is. Perhaps McConnell can put his foot down on that, and allow only any new democrat senators,(if there are any) to interview the nominees. For whatever reason, McConnell seems more cooperative with Trump, lately. Since I’m cynical, I’d say it’s because if he had been more cooperative when the House was also held by republicans, it would have reflected badly on lyin Ryan, and now that the democrats hold the House, Mitch can give Trump the moon and all the stars, but if it takes both the Senate AND the House, to accomplish, he knows Trump can’t get anywhere. Fortunately, the House has nothing to say about judicial nominees.
The Senate will likely change the 30 hour rule soon. They’re already talking about it. We’ll see.
With the 30 hour rule and these 50 = 1500 hours of debate. There aren’t enough working days in the senate to just take care of these, let alone any new nominees.
“53 GOP Senators now is so much better than last year’s 51!”
Yeah right! They are still “lead” by that worthless f*ck that looks like a Turtle! And tell me, with Romney replacing Hatch, and still being saddled with the two “Neo RAT” women ( Murky and Collins ), just how is it “better?” Joe Manchin is more of a “republican” than any of the three of them!
I sure hope they do.
The rats have abused it even though it’s going perfectly by the rule, it’s a bad rule.
52 senators, remember Mittster
“Fortunately, the House has nothing to say about judicial nominees.”
Or Administration appointments!
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