Posted on 07/11/2018 8:16:32 AM PDT by jazusamo
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Delay to defeat
Democrats lack the votes to stop the nomination if no Republican senator breaks ranks, and some liberals urged a delay of the confirmation. During a noon conference call hosted by liberal activist groups, one tactician advocated a strategy of using Mr. Mueller’s Russia investigation as a reason to postpone a vote on Judge Kavanaugh, possibly until after November’s midterm elections.
“We cannot rush this nomination,” said Leslie Proll, a civil rights lawyer who is advising the NAACP on judicial nominations. “There is a pending criminal investigation into the president. It would be irresponsible for the Senate to move forward without concluding that.”
Sen. Cory A. Booker, New Jersey Democrat, a member of the Judiciary Committee and a likely 2020 presidential contender, also is arguing to halt any consideration of the nominee until Mr. Mueller wraps up his investigation.
“President Trump is currently a subject of an ongoing criminal investigation, and any nomination of a Supreme Court justice while that investigation continues is unacceptable because of the clear conflict of interest inherent in the president installing someone who could be the deciding vote on a number of potential issues from that investigation,” Mr. Booker said.
Mr. Mueller’s team has said the president isn’t a “target” of the investigation, which is looking into suspected collusion between Moscow and the Trump campaign in 2016.
Mr. Schumer accused the president of using Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to thwart the special counsel’s investigation. In earlier writings, Judge Kavanaugh expressed the view that presidents, as heads of the entire executive branch of government, should not be burdened by criminal investigations until after they leave office.
“He’s worried Mr. Mueller will go to the court and ask that the president be subpoenaed,” Mr. Schumer said of the president. “President Trump knows that Kavanaugh...
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I like it.
“Justice delayed is Justice denied.”
Dems will do anything to stop him. Wanna bet they get protesters at some point to gather in front of his home, follow his 2 girls to school and protest there? Go after his wife. They will do it at some point, bet on it.
Nope, postpone confirmation until a democRat president is elected. /S
I couldn’t agree more and am surprised some of that hasn’t already started, the RATs are completely unhinged
Someone inform them that collusion with Russia is not a statutory crime. But wait, every Mueller indictment has nothing to do with Trump campaign collusion with Russia, which is the alleged basis for installing Mueller investigation.
No, we won’t postpone the vote - and we might not even let you change your filled diapers.
I am surprised as well it hasn’t already started.
That has got to be the stupidest argument ever.
Agreed, looks like they’re throwing stuff against a wall hoping something will stick...delusional.
Nope.
Wasn’t Bill Clinton under a criminal investigation when he nominated Breyer?
Yes he was, that’s mentioned later in the piece.
Updated: Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Leslie M. Proll, Director
Leslie Proll is the principal advisor to the Secretary and Deputy Secretary on civil rights and equal opportunity matters. She develops, recommends, and implements policies, programs, standards, and procedures relating to the enforcement of and compliance with federal civil rights laws. She provides oversight and guidance regarding the implementation of the various civil rights programs throughout the Department. This includes the prevention of discrimination in the operation of federally assisted activities and within federal employment practices. She also oversees the operation of the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program. She directs the provision of training and technical assistance on civil rights standards and procedures. She serves as the principal representative for DOT on civil rights matters with other federal agencies, commissions, organizations, and the civil rights community.
Background
Prior to joining DOT in February 2016, Leslie Proll served as Director of Policy for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., the nation's oldest civil rights legal organization. As head of the Washington, D.C. office for over a decade, she directed the organization's federal advocacy around issues involving voting rights, education, employment discrimination, fair housing, and criminal justice. She coordinated and implemented strategy on federal civil rights legislation, supervised responses to federal agency actions involving civil rights, and helped to develop proposals to strengthen federal civil rights regulations, guidance, and data collection.
Ms. Proll has testified before Congress, written articles and opinion pieces for numerous national publications, and appeared on television and radio. She served for more than a decade as Co-Chair of the Fair Housing Task Force of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. She also served as Co-Chair of the Civil Rights Committee of the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section of the American Bar Association. In 2003, she received the Congressional Black Caucus Chair's Award.
Prior to working in Washington, D.C., Ms. Proll spent nearly ten years in practice as a civil rights lawyer in Birmingham, Alabama. She litigated dozens of federal civil rights cases, including class actions and jury trials, in the areas of housing discrimination, employment discrimination, higher education school desegregation, voting rights, and transportation. She was a member of the plaintiffs' trial team in two of three trials of Alabama's higher education desegregation case, Knight v. State of Alabama. She filed some of the first sexual harassment in employment cases in Alabama. Ms. Proll was the first female chair of the Labor and Employment Section of the Alabama State Bar. She helped to establish the first non-profit fair housing organization in Alabama.
Ms. Proll began her career as a law clerk to the late Chief Judge Sam Pointer, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama. Ms. Proll is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at Davis School of Law.
These whiney POS obstructionists will not stop. Push forward, President Trump.
Amen to that!
Flaming Lib...UC Berkeley & UC Davis.
Yeah like that's gonna work.
Next on the usual rundown, Gloria Allred appearing with a stream of former female clerks who suddenly realized they felt “threatened.”
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