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Dems begin to panic as Trump set to transform federal judiciary
The American Thinker ^ | 06/23/17 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 06/23/2017 8:10:34 AM PDT by pgkdan

While Democrats obsess over the Russia hacking fantasy and Robert Mueller as Trump's Javert, President Trump, the Federalist Society, and Senator Chuck Grassley are on the way to making the federal judiciary great again. The Huffington Post noticed and is worried:

Trump is unbelievably well positioned to fill up federal courts with lifetime judges. He inherited a whopping 108 court vacancies when he became president – double the number of vacancies President Barack Obama inherited when he took office.

The reason Trump gets to fill so many seats is partly because Obama was slow to fill court vacancies early in his tenure. But the main reason is Republicans' years­long strategy of denying votes to Obama's court picks. They refused to recommend judicial nominees, filibustered others, used procedural rules to drag out the confirmation process and, by Obama's final year, blocked nominees they had recommended just to prevent him from filling more seats.

Yep: Sometimes the Stupid Party actually does its job.

Elections have consequences, and when voters handed control of the Senate to the GOP, Senator Grassley – the very opposite of a showboater – did his job as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee with skill. Now he is poised to capitalize on that control, using the Dems' "Reid Rule" that abolished the filibuster for judicial nominations, and will supplement it with another reform that will prevent Dems from obstructing appointments to the Circuit Courts of Appeals:

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; boogedyboogedy; burnitdown; courts; democrat; democratic; democrats; federal; federaljudges; federaljudiciary; grassley; judges; judiciary; second100days; trump; trumpfederaljudges; trumpjudges
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To: pgkdan

Fill EVERY damn seat during the August recess!!!


41 posted on 06/23/2017 10:04:47 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: tired&retired

“Next, fire all the Obama Federal Prosecutors and appoint new ones.”

If he hasn’t done that yet, what reason is there to think he will?


42 posted on 06/23/2017 10:28:39 AM PDT by dsc
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To: pgkdan

I wasn’t aware that the phrase “blue slip” was written into the United States Constitution.


43 posted on 06/23/2017 10:31:38 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative ( THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: pgkdan

What a sweet victory that would be...and none too soon, either.


44 posted on 06/23/2017 10:32:38 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Remember all those videos posted on YouTube of all those SJW reactions to Trump's victory shortly after Election Day? Including at least two destroyed TV's?

Mind you, nothing beats the embarrassing meltdown of The Young Turks that was livestreamed on YouTube, though.

45 posted on 06/23/2017 10:38:59 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: pgkdan

“Getting rid of the Blue Slip rule would be huge”

These Senate sorority rules have no basis in the constitution. If they impede us, they should be removed. They have nothing making them sacred.


46 posted on 06/23/2017 10:39:40 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: pgkdan

47 posted on 06/23/2017 10:41:26 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: knarf

ut the main reason is Republicans’ years­long strategy of denying votes to Obama’s court picks...

Does THIS mean we have to be proud of republican congressmen this one time?


48 posted on 06/23/2017 11:00:36 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: DoughtyOne

I would keep the right side but you don’t have to worry about the head as they lost it years ago!


49 posted on 06/23/2017 11:11:39 AM PDT by joegoeny
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To: The Sons of Liberty

It will be a slam dunk.


50 posted on 06/23/2017 11:14:42 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com)
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To: joegoeny

Can’t argue with that...


51 posted on 06/23/2017 11:19:08 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I like the idea of cutting the judges in half at the 9th.

Should it be lengthwise or width?


52 posted on 06/23/2017 11:19:26 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com)
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To: arrogantsob

group wide


53 posted on 06/23/2017 11:19:54 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: snarkytart
Title reads “Demorats ‘begin’ to panic.....LOLOLO...they've been panicking since the day we all started showing up in droves at Trumps Rallies!...or should I say when nobody showed up for Hillary's! LOLOLOL
54 posted on 06/23/2017 11:22:05 AM PDT by caww
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Great idea. The howls from the anti-Americans will be great to hear.


55 posted on 06/23/2017 11:22:39 AM PDT by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com)
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To: pgkdan

Grass key has been a great Senate chairman for the Judiciary Comittee.


56 posted on 06/23/2017 11:37:06 AM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: mrsmel
Scalia was a once-in-lifetime true-blue conservative.

Clarence Thomas, THE most conservative Justice on the court.

57 posted on 06/23/2017 12:18:08 PM PDT by houeto
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To: pgkdan
The reason Trump gets to fill so many seats is partly because Obama was slow to fill court vacancies early in his tenure.

And for most of their woes, the liberal have only themselves to blame. For the first two years of his regime, 0bama had a supermajority in the Senate. It was a rubber-stamp for his nominations. He could have packed the judiciary and there was not one thing the GOP could have done to stop it.

The "blue slip" rule goes back to the very first Congress. Just because it's old doesn't mean its good. It's a Federal Judiciary, not a state court.

58 posted on 06/23/2017 12:30:26 PM PDT by henkster (Orwell, Rand and Huxley would not be proud of our society, but they'd have no trouble recognizing it)
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To: dsc; LS

“Next, fire all the Obama Federal Prosecutors and appoint new ones.”

“If he hasn’t done that yet, what reason is there to think he will?

.......

LS, what say you??


59 posted on 06/23/2017 12:30:47 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: hal ogen

Judges ping


60 posted on 06/23/2017 12:42:07 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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