Posted on 12/13/2017 3:32:12 PM PST by Coronal
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Republican said Wednesday that two of President Trump’s nominees for open seats on the federal bench will not be confirmed. One of them, Jeff Mateer, was nominated to serve as a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas.
The Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Republican said Wednesday that two of President Trump’s nominees for open seats on the federal bench will not be confirmed, just a day after urging the White House to “reconsider” them.
U.S. Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, said that based on his discussions with the White House, the nominations of Jeff Mateer and Brett Talley would not move forward through the confirmation process. The decision comes after reports that both nominees made public comments celebrating groups or policies that were discriminatory.
The decision is a significant interruption of the Trump administration’s plans to have the Senate swiftly confirm its judicial nominees, often over the objections of Democrats complaining that certain picks are too biased or too inexperienced for the federal bench.
Mateer was nominated to serve as a federal judge in the Eastern District of Texas, while Talley was nominated for a federal district court seat in Alabama. Last month, the committee approved Talley’s nomination on a party-line vote, despite the American Bar Association’s finding that he was “not qualified” to be a federal judge. The full Senate had yet to confirm his nomination.
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“The decision comes after reports that both nominees made public comments celebrating groups or policies that were discriminatory.”
b) You’d think that whomever was in charge of vetting these guys BEFORE submitting their names to the Senate would have picked up on these statements (again, if they are real). If this wasn’t caught, then someone is an amateur.
Trump should simply wait until Congress is on vacation and then handle these as recess appointments.
It starts.
The “discrimination” monster is being fed a diet of devout biblical Christians who have been formerly respected for exactly the same positions they hold today.
I want more specifics.
If they were critical of sharia law then no, not a reason to not confirm.
that were discriminatory.” >>
based on whose definition and terms...the swamp needs to be drained.
But but but we have a majority remember lololololol
In most cases this is actually a good thing.
Open your eyes.
Even with a majority the Republicans will not do it.
They need to lose.
McConnell needs to resign or no vote for a Republican.
“Trump should simply wait until Congress is on vacation and then handle these as recess appointments.”
Yes.
After having put up qualified candidates in good faith.
Wait just a damn minute!!!! Remember?
According to the suits at the FBI and the Justice Department, venomous bias, that reads a lot like hatred, does not compromise in any way objectivity or the ability to do a job to perfection.
If they think they’re controversial then they must believe in the Constitution. That would be good for all us little people and we can’t have that.
In the Federal government of the United States, either house of the Congress (the House of Representatives or the Senate) can hold a pro forma session at which no formal business is expected to be conducted.[6] This is usually to fulfill the obligation under the Constitution "that neither chamber can adjourn for more than three days without the consent of the other."[7] Pro forma sessions can also be used to prevent the President pocket-vetoing bills, or calling the Congress into special session.[8] They have also been used to prevent presidents from making recess appointments.
But a woman who said that decisions should only be made by someone like herself because of her ethnicity is not discriminatory?
Guess we can only hire Wise Latinas to please Mr. Grassley.
Interesting.
And theoretically unnecessary when the House, Senate and Government are all one party.
This shows the Republicans do not consider Trump to be a Republican or trustworthy.
considering their persecutors, they are most probably excellent and morally straight nominees. too bad, but of course expected. the uniparty probably feels emboldened by the turning back of Judge Moore.
While we’re jumping on that band wagon, lets try to remember that we are seen as racists because we want our immigration laws to be enforced.
All this tells me, is that the McConnell wing of the GOPe, is convinced Trump is doing too good a job appointing Conservative judges.
Where was the outrage when Obama appointed people to the Supreme Court who were clearly not qualified?
This is just more GOPe B.S.
Couldn’t have said it better. You’re exactly right.
The ABA didn’t have one problem with Obama’s picks for the SCOTUS.
None of them were too controversial for our Republican leaders.
This stinks to high heavens.
But Kagan and Sotomayor and other far left radicals are OK?
I honestly believe that either of these two guys could be just as good as if not better than 90 percent of the sitting federal judges, who are so liberal and so lazy they can’t be bothered with interpreting the law!
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