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President Trump’s nominees for the appeals court — litigators Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee and Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Bumatay — are all based in Southern California, are prominent members of the conservative Federalist Society, and have worked for Republican administrations.

None of the three were approved by Feinstein or Harris via a process known as a “blue slip,” the senators’ offices confirmed Thursday. [snip]

Traditionally, presidents have deferred to home state senators when nominating federal judges, agreeing not to nominate people unless those senators returned their blue slip in support of the prospective judge. [snip]

[But after Feinstein’s Kavanaugh antics, violating the ‘blue slip’ tradition is richly deserved.]

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[Oh boy!]

Dems want to Pack the Surpreme Court

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3696942/posts

Maybe Trump should pack SCOTUS.

Nice idea, democrats.

Glad they brought it up. Not their intention, but oh well.

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Nikki Haley blasts China, calls government ‘straight out of George Orwell’

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3697022/posts

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Trump administration plans to require drug companies to include prices in ads

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/my/comments

Latest Saudi controversy:

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is against Wahhabism aka radical Islam. That’s the key point to understand.

Don’t forget that bin Laden tried to drive the Saudis into becoming a terror state. They fought him to the death on that.

Quick History lesson:

The Saudis’ ancestors were allies of the UK. They gained power through denouncing the earlier dynasty as too westernized. And the UK fell for their tricks despite the strident objections of Lawrence of Arabia [the most brilliant Middle East geopolitical strategist of his day].

Now the Saudis are seeking to be modern [it took us a long time to get them there] and Rubio is falling for the new anti-western movement which could place ISIS on the Saudi throne or something similar.