Posted on 08/11/2017 2:54:09 PM PDT by cotton1706
President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees are ignoring key Senate Democrats as they vie for lifetime appointments to the bench — a break from longstanding practice that diminishes the minority’s power to provide a check against ideologically extreme judges.
The brewing tension between the White House and the Senate over filling an unusually high number of judicial vacancies is impeding the pace at which Trump installs lifetime appointees to the federal bench — so far one of the president’s few major victories, with his legislative agenda largely stymied in Congress.
University of Pennsylvania law professor Stephanos Bibas met privately with his state’s GOP senator, Pat Toomey, before Trump chose him to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in June — but not with Democratic Sen. Bob Casey, according to a questionnaire submitted by Bibas to the Senate Judiciary Committee about his nomination. Same goes for 7thCircuit nominee Amy Coney Barrett, who interviewed with Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.) about the appellate vacancy but not fellow Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly, a Democrat.
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DIMocRAT judges tend to be relativist morons who not only never read the Constitution but also probably don’t believe it exists.
The Dems have behaved nearly unanimously like spoiled brats since November 9th, 2016, and any attempt at reaching across that aisle is greeted by hoots of contempt within the media and the principals. To hell with all of them.
“No candidates from radical – in other words nominal islam, pigastinianism, homosexuality, pedophilia, transgenderism and every other form of sexual perversion, communism, RINOism, atheism and other anti-God nonsense, criminal behavior of all types, black inadequacy, la raza, every other form of maladjusted minority status, murder, thievery, etc., need apply.”
I wish you were on the advisory committee.
What the article doesn’t say is that any senator can place a hold on any nominee from their state for any reason or for no reason at all. While on hold the nomination doesn’t proceed - no cloture, no vote, ho hearings, nothing. The hold can last indefinitely - Tom Cotton placed a hold on one of Obama’s nominees until the lady died, literally. She was diagnosed with cancer and passed on while still waiting for a vote. So watch a lot of Trump’s judges spin their wheels.
Exactamundo. The Democrats chose to lock themselves out of the judical nominating process.
“...and the best candidate will almost never be a Democrat...
I take great exception with your use of the word “ALMOST”.
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