Posted on 11/10/2014 8:24:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the presumptive chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Monday outlined his leadership plans—including his vow to confirm “consensus” nominations to the federal judiciary.
Grassley, currently the committee’s ranking Republican, told his home state papers over the weekend that he intended to chair the Judiciary Committee.
The committee, Grassley said Monday, “should not be a rubber stamp for the president” when it comes to nominations. Grassley said in his statement:
Factors I consider important include intellectual ability, respect for the Constitution, fidelity to the law, personal integrity, appropriate judicial temperament, and professional competence. Judges are to decide cases and controversies—not establish public policy or make law.
Grassley didn’t mention any nonjudicial nominees that will come before his committee, but his Monday remarks reflect his statement over the weekend promising a “very fair, but thorough, vetting by the Judiciary Committee” for U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch’s nomination to be the next attorney general.
Whether Lynch emerges as one such “consensus nominee” may depend on how she answers questions already being posed by other Republicans on the Judiciary Committee.
Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Mike Lee, R-Utah, said on Saturday that Lynch “must demonstrate full and complete commitment to the law … beginning with a statement whether or not she believes the president’s executive amnesty plans are constitutional and legal.”
Grassley will be the first nonlawyer to head the Judiciary Committee. But that should be no impediment for the Iowa farmer, who has sat on the committee since 1986.
Makan Delrahim, a shareholder at Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck who served as staff director and chief counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 2000 to 2003, pointed to the intensive legal education any member, lawyer or not, receives by sitting on Judiciary.
Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., another longtime Judiciary Committee member, “are probably the best two lawyers who never went to law school I’ve ever seen,” Delrahim said.
Grassley’s statement on Monday didn’t provide a detailed agenda. He said the committee will look at legislation that “reduces regulatory burdens on businesses and curbs abuses to our civil justice system”; legislation that “protects taxpayer dollars from waste, fraud and abuse”; and legislation that “adapts our criminal laws to rapidly advancing technology.”
I could go for some a that.
The Lyncher is the next 0bamy Chief Law Unenforcer.
How old is he? Like a thousand?
81.
Better inform the cryin oompah-loompah and Yertle the turd-le 'cause they both got no gonads.
If Ted Cruz presses Lynch, what do you think her response will be?
a) “I will enforce all laws exactly in the way we interpret them, unless we change how we interpret them”
b) “Amnesty is perfectly lawful because amnesty is implied in the Constitution in the part that says “We, the people”
C) “There will be no amnesty from the Justice Department! Jeh Johnson will handle that.”
D) Something else
NewsMachete.com
“Consensus: The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have been fought and won under the banner: ‘I stand for consensus?'”-- Margaret Thatcher
I hope the pubbies use their victory to cement control right out of the gate - else it was all for naught
And he’ll be running for re-election in 2016. Judging from Iowa’s reaction to Braley insulting him Chuck will get about 70% of the vote. He’s only the 4th most senior geezer in the Senate, behind Leahy, Hatch and Cochran. Although I doubt Cochran has much time left in him. And Chuck’s only the 2nd eldest—Feinstein is 3 months older. Hatch will be President Pro Tempore in the new Senate. Sometimes adding that to their legacy is the only way to get the geezers to retire.
...I’ll try to act surprised when they turn into a rubber stamp for Obama...
that just about excludes everybody in the Democrat party, the media, and academia.
Is he just going to confirm conservatives?
How can Obama get anyone confirmed ???
Good for Grassley.
Not sure when Lynch’s hearings begin. Let’s say the first week in December. So she is now into day 4 where she should have read by now Obamas position on illegal immigrant amnesty.
Anyone want to bet when she is asked about this, she will say she hasn’t had to time read the brief?
He’s old, I see an unpleasant primary coming that will boost rat chances for the seat.
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