Posted on 10/31/2019 1:14:35 PM PDT by grayboots
Sen. Lindsey Graham is preparing to relinquish his chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee to Sen. Charles E. Grassley in the next Congress, beginning in 2021.
The South Carolina Republican’s staff confirmed Thursday that Mr. Graham would step aside, but he is poised to remain in the seat throughout the next year.
Mr. Graham has worked as chairman since the outset of 2019 to confirm President Trump’s federal judicial nominees, and he has been a vocal opponent of the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry. Ahead of the House’s vote to formalize certain aspects of its impeachment inquiry on Thursday, Mr. Graham said last week that House Democrats’ effort was a “political lynching.”
The Senate is set to become the center of impeachment politics just as the 2020 campaign season ramps up next year if the House’s inquiry yields an impeachment trial in the Senate. Mr. Graham will remain chairman of the Judiciary Committee as he runs for reelection next year in South Carolina.
Mr. Graham told Politico on Thursday that Mr. Grassley asked to come back as chairman of the Judiciary Committee, which the Iowa Republican previously led from 2015 until earlier this year when Mr. Grassley took over the Senate Finance Committee.
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Is this the same Grassley who allowed the screamers to disrupt the Kavanaugh hearings, and permitted Feinstein to throw a last-minute fecal floater into the punchbowl?
Getting a little ahead of themselves aren’t they? They don’t fight for anything other then thier jobs, and against Trump. Why should they be re-elected?
I actually think Grassley did a decent job with the Kavanaugh circus. The fact that he’s still pursuing the slanderers who deliberately perjured themselves in their testimony is a good sign, although I’m 99% sure absolutely nothing will come of it.
A few dozen House Reps are solid, but I can’t think of one Senator who is worth a damn.
Can’t they give it to an adult who isn’t senile?
This leaves out Graham and Grasley.
Our do nothing Senate is back to doing nothing.
hmmmmm....
I wonder of POTUS is behind Miss Lindsey stepping down?
And what does this do for his 2020 Senate re-elect run?
Lots of dots that MAY get connected.
Why the HELL doesn’t he step down NOW???
What’s the difference who’s in charge. Nothing ever gets done. Graham has done nothing, zip, nada, nicht, nyet.
Don’t we have ANY other attorneys in the Senate on our side of the isle???
Grassley runs hot and cold.......what about a younger, braver Senator who will take no prisoners and won’t allow the joint to look like a 3 ring circus with the Demons running wild?????
Since Rand Paul and Tucker Carlson were calling out Linda for his inaction and the fraud he is, Linda thought it best, for his re-election purposes, to get out of the hot kitchen.
He’s trying to protect his sugar daddy McLame......and keeping Cindy and Meagan happy as they go about trying to convince people the turd was the second coming......
Why? As 100th Birthday Present for Chuck?
“Love Chuck Grassley, That’s the way the Senate works. He took the Finance Committee so I could be chairman, and he’ll come back and fill out his time, and I’ll come back, and somebody else will come along.”
Looks like Graham is tired of being asked why he hasn’t done any investigating while being inc harge of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Grassley will be 89 in 2022. Time to end on it on a high note in 2021 and not run again in 2022. So as Lindsey Graham says, “Someone else can come along.”
Excellent point and the answer is a resounding NO!!!!
Grassley is too old.
End it on a high note.......LOL, LOL, LOL ending it on a DO NOTHING note is more like it!!! Is any one going to primary this ASSHAT???
Sen. Grassley will roll over to 87 years old in Sept. 2020...nothing like having brain dead people in charge of the US CONGRESS along with the muslims on the democrat side....
What a Nation of idiots we have become...
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