Little Lindsay has got to go... is he up for re-election next year?
South Carolina needs a conservative Senator who will stand up for the constitution. Sad day for SC.
Really sad when the elected representatives do not listen to the people that elected them.
South Carolina needs to get some spine and vote out or recall Lindsay Graham. He is making your state look really stupid.
Really sad when the elected representatives do not listen to the people that elected them.
South Carolina needs to get some spine and vote out or recall Lindsay Graham. He is making your state look really stupid.
“The Senate cmte’s Dems voted unanimously for the Bronx native.”
Now that’s a bronx cheer!
The only vaguely bright spot was that the vote took place while FNC was in commercial - so they didn’t get to follow through on their threat to carry the pre-ordained vote live...
So Republicans are outnumbered on this committee 12-7? What a farce. GOP better remember that the next time they are in charge of the Senate — no compromise on the number of members and no leadership sharing.
More GOP collaboration.
What a wimp.
Lindsey, If you have no limits, you have no standards.
Least qualified (successsful) nominee this century. Harriet Myers was the wrong nominee at the wrong time. Her withdrawal got us both Roberts and Alito.
Graham-nesty is a continuing disgrace. Sotomayor’s ethnicity is of no importance, yet it’s the main reason she is getting on the court. What is important is her contempt for the Constitution, her common-ness, and her bigotry. The Supreme Court is no longer a legitimate institution.
Nobody is speaking about this. But I read that according to the Senate rules at least one member of the minority party has to vote for a judicial candidate to bring the nomination to the floor.
Which means that if NO Republicans had voted for Sotomayer her nomination would have been blocked.
Sen Graham votes have consequences.
Nam Vet
It takes at least one republican to move this vote to the floor.
He just gave them his vote and I think he has 5.5 years to go before he is up for re-election.
RINO’s I’m sure McCain and Bush would say this POS is a good conservative.
Lindsey has been off the reservation for awhile now. He must really like being the only pubby on the inide the beltway cocktail party invitation list.
I had such high hopes for Graham during Clinton’s impeachment hearings...what a disappointment he has become.
Swell.
The link in Dorf's post is to Congress Matters, which has the Senate Judiciary Committee rule:
IV. BRINGING A MATTER TO A VOTE The Chairman shall entertain a non-debatable motion to bring a matter before the Committee to a vote. If there is objection to bring the matter to a vote without further debate, a roll call vote of the Committee shall be taken, and debate shall be terminated if the motion to bring the matter to a vote without further debate passes with ten votes in the affirmative, one of which must be cast by the minority.
She rejected the president's "empathy standard," abandoned her statements that a judge's "opinions, sympathies and prejudices" may guide decision-making, dismissed remarks that personal experiences should "affect the facts that judges choose to see," brushed aside her repeated "wise Latina" comment as "a rhetorical flourish," and championed judicial restraint.
Judge Sotomayor's attempt to rebrand her previously stated judicial approach was, as one editorial page opined, "uncomfortably close to disingenuous."
Why not defend the philosophy she had articulated so carefully over the years?