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Senate Republicans Steamroll Judicial Process
Roll Call ^ | January 18, 2018

Posted on 01/18/2018 6:06:56 PM PST by SMGFan

‘Advice’ dwindles in the GOP’s rush for judges

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans hardly could have done more last year to help President Donald Trump reshape the nation’s federal courts with conservative appointees.

They put Justice Neil Gorsuch in a Supreme Court seat, one they blocked Barack Obama from filling during his last year in the White House. Then they approved a dozen Trump picks for the influential appeals courts that have the final say on the vast majority of the nation’s legal disputes — a record number for a president’s first year in office.

Against the backdrop of an otherwise lackluster year of legislation and an onslaught of political drama from the West Wing and Trump’s Twitter feed, somehow the long-dysfunctional judicial confirmation process emerged as a relatively functional part of Washington.

But to help Trump accomplish that feat, the White House and Senate Republicans further changed the game on confirmations. They brushed aside or relaxed long-standing customs meant to give senators more say — and more sway — in who gets lifetime tenure as a federal judge. And Senate Republicans start 2018 intent on further streamlining the process to fill more than 120 vacancies on federal district courts.

(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 115th; 2017review; trumpjudiciary; winning

1 posted on 01/18/2018 6:06:56 PM PST by SMGFan
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As if the Democrats in Congress never “steam-rolled”


2 posted on 01/18/2018 6:09:17 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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They held up Estrada, Brown, and others. But the Dems can do as they please. If Republicans displease Dems in the slightest, up goes the media wail.


3 posted on 01/18/2018 6:19:40 PM PST by Luke21
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To: SMGFan

Nothing will ever make up for what democrats did to Robert Bork. Instead of a staunch constitutionalist, we got Kennedy who has been the swing vote in one horrible decision after another, including of course, homosexual marriage.


4 posted on 01/18/2018 6:25:10 PM PST by KyCats
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To: SMGFan

We need some decent judges to counterbalance all the lunatics that the Kenyanesian Usurper appointed.


5 posted on 01/18/2018 6:26:16 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: SMGFan

Hey rollcall, TS. Elections do have consequences.


6 posted on 01/18/2018 6:49:40 PM PST by Bookshelf
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Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans hardly could have done more last year to help President Donald Trump reshape the nation’s federal courts with conservative appointees.

Wonderful news!

7 posted on 01/18/2018 7:47:24 PM PST by libertylover (Kurt Schlicter: "They wonder why they got Trump. They are why they got Trump")
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To: SMGFan

The Republicans offered exactly the same deal to the Democrats as they offered the Republicans in 2013.

The Democrats refused - they are holding over 60 judicial nominees hostage, while in 2013 the Republicans were blocking only 20.


8 posted on 01/18/2018 11:53:15 PM PST by Mack the knife
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To: Lurkinanloomin

I’m hoping (probably unrealistic, but who knows, I could be surprised) that once Trump lays out the case against 0vomit (treason, ineligible for the office, etc, etc, etc) that most of his actions while in the office will be undone. Especially his SCOTUS appointments. They should all be removed. They are as illegal as the person who put them there.

Personally, I’d be satisfied if all of 0vomit’s appointees “decided to resign”. wink, wink.


9 posted on 01/19/2018 6:44:44 AM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: SMGFan

Winning!


10 posted on 01/19/2018 8:01:48 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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