Posted on 06/06/2018 6:51:09 PM PDT by Kaslin
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey Jr. once again put his own political interests before that of his constituents. This time, Casey is vehemently opposing a qualified candidate for the Court of Appeals on ideological grounds. David Porter, an attorney from Pittsburgh, was nominated by President Trump to sit on the bench for the 3rd circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. Porter has 23 years of experience in law, and currently practices at the Pittsburgh law firm Buchanan, Ingersoll and Rooney.
Historically, Pennsylvania Senators Casey and Toomey have typically stuck together for judicial nominations and have been able to compromise for the sake of their Commonwealth constituents. With Porter’s nomination, however, Senator Casey is blocking President Trump’s move at full force. Despite Casey’s decline to give the Senate Judiciary Committee his “blue slip,” the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Chuck Grassley, was able to still schedule a hearing for Porter, per the Senate policy on receiving approval from the nominee’s home-state Senators.
Senator Casey, along with his allies in far-left ideological interest groups, oppose David Porter’s nomination strictly based on his Conservative ideology. Groups such as Why Courts Matter PA, have tried to frame Porter as a “right-wing ideologue,” who is incapable of putting his individual political philosophy aside while on the federal bench. After praising his own “bipartisan” work with his Republican colleagues to put judges on the bench, Casey tweeted his opposition to Porter’s nomination, citing that his Conservative views disqualify him:
Instead of working in a bipartisan fashion to put mainstream individuals on the bench, this Administration and the Senate Majority Leader are demanding that the Senate confirm judicial nominees who advocate a hard-right ideology to appease their corporate donors.— Senator Bob Casey (@SenBobCasey) June 6, 2018
Senator Casey’s opposition to a well-qualified Pennsylvania native’s nomination to the Court of Appeals is another political stunt by the senator, in order to effectively block the Trump Administration’s every move, and appease his left-wing donors and colleagues. Casey is gearing up for tough re-election bid, a challenge from Pennsylvania Congressman and Trump-endorsed candidate Lou Barletta.
Screw Casey - hes been as abysmal a senator as my fellow Pennsylvanians have ever elected.
I wonder if Casey is weaker than people think this election season? Campaigning as a good guy scion of an important family is not the same thing as having accomplished anything other than being elected. Pennsylvania faces some real challenges, and he looks weak and ineffective I think. Am I the only person thinking this?
As POTUS DJT said to me in a robo call prior to the Pennsylvania primary:
“Bob Casey is a disaster in the Senate...an absolute disaster”.
The Day of the Rope awaits Casey.
Santorum was much better!
Casey is like EVERY other Democrat, who checks with Schumer before he heads to the boys’ room. Rubber stamps all.
Isn’t that the truth? Even Arlen Specter would appear in public to unscreened and unscripted audiences. Casey just does as his left wing handlers order him to do. You could call him a Dunce, but it would be an insult to Dunces.
Casey will be one of the 11 Senate Democrats who lose. Mark it down. He is just another Democrat nothing special and will be seen as Schumer’s boy.
With RINOS like these the evil RATS should just seat back and relax,..forget about the red wave or blue they have enough traitorous POS RINO votes to stop Trump and his MAGA agenda!!
I’m talking about corker and Ryan! POS RINOS!!
Casey is one of the most worthless Senators to ever serve. That is no easy accomplishment with the POS Menedndez across the river.
Casey isn’t 10% of what his father was. Casey the Elder was pro-gun, and in favor of many other policies that the current Democratic party would be screaming about. But he was an American with a good dose of common sense and decency. His son is a POS.
LOU !
He’s lazy. Lazy and operates with an entitled mentality.
I think he can be beaten this fall. While it won’t be an easy win, we have a candidate that’s quite the opposite of Casey and will force Casey to do something that he hates doing ... Work!
Bob Casey is like a church mouse...only comes out of hiding on occasion...
and that would be ELECTION time...
I’m surprised he is even making a comment on a Judge nominee ...but then it is re election time for him...has to get his name in the Media...He makes me LOL..
He will Not be getting this families vote...that is a promise..
Casey beat William Scranton III, a scion of another political family. I remember a comment from a long-dead political leader: “Casey or Scranton? It’s a pick-‘em. Either way we’re electing a useless acid-head!”
Grassley pisses on your “blue slip,” Casey.
Not a word of this story in the Casey-friendly Reading (Pa.)Eagle. What a surprise!
“Bi-partisan” and “Mainstream” as terms in the hands of the Left is nothing other than fiction sold to the unsuspecting sheeple as they literally mean nothing less than “will agree with us”.
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