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“Senator Grassley clinging to his antiquated ‘Blue Slip’ tradition of letting the opposition help us to choose judicial nominees, comes to my mind.”
Apparently the Republicans have unofficially ceded blue slip privileges for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to the Democrats.
For example:
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_District_of_Columbia
Active Judges:
Democrat judges: 11
Republican judges: 4
The Democrat judges are hardcore leftists (James Boasberg, Rudy Contreras, Tonya Chutkan, etc.).
The Republican judges are moderates who often side with the Democrat judges.
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Court_of_Appeals_for_the_District_of_Columbia_Circuit
Active judges:
Democrat judges: 7
Republican judges: 4
“The D.C. Circuit is often considered to be second only to the U.S. Supreme Court in status and prestige, and it is sometimes unofficially termed “the second highest court in the land,” although it is officially no higher than the other twelve Courts of Appeals.[2] Because its jurisdiction covers the District of Columbia, it tends to be the main federal appellate court for issues of U.S. administrative law and constitutional law.[2] Four of the nine current Supreme Court justices were previously judges on the D.C. Circuit: Chief Justice John Roberts and associate justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Past justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, Warren E. Burger, Fred M. Vinson, and Wiley Blount Rutledge also served on the D.C. Circuit before their appointments to the Supreme Court.
Because the D.C. Circuit does not represent any U.S. states, confirming D.C. Circuit nominees can be procedurally and practically easier than confirming nominees to other circuits, because home-state senators have historically been able to hold up confirmation through the blue slip process.”
Well...she’s right
Newt was an EXCELLENT speaker with Tom Delay as the whip BUT as with EVERYTHING on our side of the isle they had to find a way to get rid of them BOTH!! Same old story!! Pelosi is corrupt as hell!!!!
Unless the Senate is able to pass a matching bill, it would be foolish for any House Republican to offer up a significant change bill as any House Republican who dropped such a bill in the hopper or was a co-sponser would become a target.
Drop a bill in the hoppers proposing a filibuster constitutional amendment be sent to the states with a three-month limit for ratification.
Either it gets made permanent or it gets tossed.
“And if you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.”
With the PPACA, you’d normally him/her pay out-of-pocket, so why not?
I’m on Medicare, my first doctor visit and most of second doctor visit will be on my money.
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