Posted on 07/31/2018 6:03:13 PM PDT by Morgana
WASHINGTON —
The U.S. Senate voted narrowly on Tuesday to confirm Britt Grant to Atlanta’s 11th U.S. Circuit, greenlighting the Georgia Supreme Court justice for a lifetime position on the powerful federal appeals court that frequently takes on hotly contested issues such as gun rights and the death penalty.
The vote largely fell along party lines, with three Democrats joining 49 Republicans to confirm the former Georgia solicitor general. The final tally was 52-46.
GOP boosters, including Georgia U.S. Sens. David Perdue and Johnny Isakson, called Grant an experienced and well-liked conservative jurist.
“Clearly, Justice Grant is immensely qualified to fill this Court of Appeals vacancy, and there is no doubt in my mind that she will do a fantastic job,” Perdue said Monday on the Senate floor. “In fact, our country needs more judges like Justice Grant.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.myajc.com ...
The good ones are always going to be close...
“...called Grant an experienced and well-liked conservative jurist.”
Oooooooh boy, that’s going to cause a fight.
I know and I are loving it!
Mucho Mas Winning!
Great
Easy on the eyes..
How did Doug Jones vote?
Britt is a female! Surprised and pleased. She is very pretty.
So which two predictable Republicans opposed? And why?
No such thing as a conservative judge...you either support and defend the Constitution as it’s written and properly amended or you don’t.
Thanks.
click this link to the photo I tried to post but couldn’t. It shows her husband and children.
Her husband is CIA. That is interesting.
"Today’s decision is part of Trump’s unprecedented and escalating campaign, enabled by the Republican leadership, to pact [sic] the federal courts with narrow-minded elitists and erode the checks and balances needed to constrain President Trump’s, or any president’s, most destructive impulses. Britt Grant has made a career attacking environmental protections, undermining women’s constitutional rights including the right to choose an abortion, arguing against marriage equality, making it harder for transgender children to be safe at school, fighting against the Voting Rights act and harming immigrant families.
“Britt Grant is unqualified for a lifetime seat on the federal bench and she’s made clear that as a judge she’d use her position to push an agenda favoring the interests of the wealthy and powerful over the rights of all people. Any senator who cares about our system of checks and balances, as well as the importance of a fair and impartial judiciary, should refuse to support any more Trump judicial nominees.”
(Openly admitting that having the wrong political results equates to someone being "unqualified" for the bench.)
Why is it when democrats vote against a woman they are not called woman haters?
If she was blond, she’d look like Kim from Better Call Saul.
Gee, that sounds like a laundry list of "things liberals couldn't get by Constitutional means, so had them imposed on us by judicial decree," to me.
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