[Parmy]

They didn’t listen to us. They listened to their big donors that told them to get on the stick and do something or the money would dry up.

[facedown]

I thought Grassely had the final say on this and said that there would be no change in the procedure?

[Fungi]

You mean the turtle Mcturtle has partially righted himself off his carapace? Nah.

[Uncle Sam 911]

Very good news.

[Fiddlstix]

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Now give McConnell the “PINK SLIP”, and I don’t mean a skirt.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

He could have done this years ago, or at least when Trump got sworn in so that there wouldn’t be so many vacancies on important federal courts.

Another reason to give him the “PINK SLIP”.

[arthurus]

Now we need to work on that 30 days debate per judge that McConnell promised. McConnell made sure that Soetoro’s judicial appointments were expedited, maybe 30 minutes, or seconds.

[Tuketu]

BTW the 60 vote Senate rule is in MHO un Constitutional. The Constitution provides for the Vice President to cast the deciding vote in ties. With the super majority rule there is no tie. Sic. the Senate is violating the Constitutional rights of the Vice President of the United Stats.

[bitt]

judges ping

[DoughtyOne]

There are conflicting reports, and I don’t think this we ant our way.

More status quo.

A G A I N !

[leapfrog0202]

I thought it was going to say they removed Mitch McConnell!

[Zhang Fei]

McConnell can force Grassley off the Judiciary Committee, if he really means business about ending the blue slip tradition. We’ll see how he proceeds.

[topher]

The Keyword “BLUESLIPS” will show all the articles/threads on this recently... FYI

[Old_Grouch]

I read that this was premature, they are not doing away with the blue slip process. 30 hrs of debate on each confirmation to slow track the confirmations. No?

[rxsid]

50 of Trumps nominees are pending. 50!

"Today, there are 149 vacancies in the federal judiciary. Of these, over 50 vacancies are “judicial emergencies.” A “judicial emergency” is a situation in which there are over 600 case filings per judge and that vacancy has existed for more than 18 months. In other words, a judicial emergency is when there are insufficient judges to timely hear and adjudicate cases; people’s rights are left hanging in the balance."

Currently, there are 50 nominees still pending in the Senate, and many of these nominees would fill these emergency seats and help bring justice to parties in conflict. "