Posted on 10/12/2017 8:31:51 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Senator Mitch McConnell (KY), the Senate Majority leader, has heard our demand for action and reform. He has just removed an archaic procedural rule that has been misused by the left to block conservative federal judicial nominees from ever getting a vote—or even a hearing. It is called the Senate “blue slip,” but you will not find it in the Constitution.
Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution gives a clear and efficient procedure for nomination and confirmation of judges: “He [the President] shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint…other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States.” These extra-constitutional and extraneous Senate “courtesies” fall outside the requirements of the Constitution, are regularly abused by the Left, and add red tape to what the Founder’s had intended to be a clear, transparent, and democratic process.
Today’s rule change marks a return to the simple, efficient, constitutional model of judicial confirmation. As Senate Majority Leader McConnell explained, the “blue slip” will now be viewed “‘as simply notification of how you're going to vote, not as an opportunity to blackball’ a nominee.” The Senate has heard your voice and removed a major barrier to the confirmation of highly qualified conservative justices. Now, all Senator’s have an equal voice, and no Senator can single handedly stonewall the President’s judicial nominees.
Now it is time for the Senate to quickly move forward with confirmation of eminently qualified judges. It’s time to end the anti-Christian bigotry and attacks on judicial nominees for being men and women of faith. Our message to the Senate is clear: it’s time to vote.
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Oh, they definitely listened to us. Phone calls, emails, letters softened up the Senators and the big money joined US seeing we are right. They did not come up with this policy on their own.
Don’t believe anything you read and you will save yourself a lot of grief.
People around here take any hint of bad news and proceed to go nuts, most the time those hints are complete lies.
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