I wanna keep my FRIENDS there..!!
Posted on 07/30/2017 4:57:32 PM PDT by Impy
Before delving into individual courts and possible nominee names, let’s discuss some matters of general applicability. Here’s the big issue looming over everything: President Trump can nominate whomever he wants, but will these nominees get confirmed — especially in states with one or two Democratic senators?
Republicans in the Senate have successfully maintained a united front on judicial nominees — not just on Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, but even on John K. Bush, just confirmed to the Sixth Circuit, despite some controversial undercover blogging — so confirmability truly turns on blue slips. As Kevin Daley of the Daily Caller explains:
By Senate convention, senators from states where judicial vacancies occur submit an opinion or a “blue slip,” giving a positive or negative evaluation of a nominee named to that vacancy. As a general matter, the Judiciary Committee will not convene a hearing for a nominee until the relevant senators submit their blue slips, effectively giving home-state senators veto power over judicial nominations.
I have previously expressed the hope that Democratic senators will be reasonable on blue slips, and not use them “to stop or stymie the nominations of qualified individuals just because the nominee happens to be more conservative than the senator.” But word on the street is that many Democratic senators, energized by anti-Trump sentiment, do plan to be aggressive in withholding blue slips.[1]
What will happen if Democrats dig in their heels on blue slips? I predict the Republicans will respond by getting rid of blue slips, or at least cutting back their scope.
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Our pal Clintonfatigued forwarded this to me.
Outside of open warfare, any hope, however slight, for Restoration of some semblance of the former Republic depends almost exclusively on Trump-appointed judges.
Which is why there is nothing more important than keeping the Senate Majority, even if it means putting up with RINOs, so long as they vote to confirm, which they have to date.
It’s important to remember, Senate Republican successfully blocked Garland for a year and we have Neil Gorsuch now (and even Collins and Murkowski voted aye).
I wanna keep my FRIENDS there..!!
Okay, so only nominate judges from Republican states or not so crazy Democrats.
“not so crazy Democrats.”
No such thing any more.
Thanks so much, Impy. Intriguing, all of it, isn’t it? And pray that the prim and proper R’s, in dresses with ruffles, will do away with the reconciliation requirement for 60 votes.
It is hard enough to find 51 votes with the Maverick running loose, and his ladies, Collins of Maine and Alaska Annie, opening the dark ditch for the Trump agenda.
Rita
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