Posted on 09/29/2018 8:05:37 PM PDT by Cubs Fan
(Merkley)The Oregon Democrat will ask a federal judge Wednesday to issue an injunction to stop Senate Republicans' hurry-up plan to vote on Kavanaugh's nomination. Merkley asserts he's not been given adequate time to do his job of reviewing Kavanaugh's qualifications to serve on the nation's highest court.
Merkley's complaint has more to do with the 100,000 pages of Kavanaugh-related documents withheld by the Trump administration than with complaints of sexual misconduct. Specifically, Merkley accused President Donald Trump and his staff of "imposing a broad and unprecedented blockage on the Senate's and the public's access to reams of key documents that directly bear on Judge Kavanaugh's views, experience and character."
In Kavanaugh's case, the Trump administration has withheld records from his time working as staff secretary for President George W. Bush. The National Archives, which traditionally supervises records releases for Supreme Court nominees, has said it won't have its Kavanaugh records ready for release until late October.
Senate Republicans don't want to wait that long. They argue that Merkley and other Democrats have their minds made up anyway and the release of new documents won't change anything.
(Excerpt) Read more at oregonlive.com ...
Please tell me I am wrong.
the dirty trick of the democrats never cease (sigh)
The courts have no jurisdiction. This is a political question.
Clear separation of powers issue and this is a Constitutional obligation of the Senate. a judge has no jurisdiction here and should actually be impeached if she interferes.
Advice and consent comes from the Senate alone.
You're wrong.
Bang the significant other and get some sleep.
Democrats have turned the selection of the SC into a political circus
LOL!
I don’t think a judge can tell The Senate what it can or can’t do....
but of course who knows...if this judge approves it may end up on the 9th circus
and go to the Supreme Court....a 4-4 tie would mean the 9th circus will be the rule
The Executive branch may give deference to psychotic Democrat judges, but the Legislative will not.
Imagine a wacko judge telling U.S. Senators what to do, LOL!
Please run away...
The NCAA and QVC both have as much power as the SC in this process.
Enjoy the fact that the RATs aren’t in as much control as they think.
https://twitter.com/floridaguy267/status/1046222789164879872
Supreme Court would shoot it down - unanimously - before that point anyway. Even the four liberal justices.
How many dozen hours did Kavanaugh sit and answer questions over 3 months? How many tens of thousands of questions did he provide written answers to? How many opportunities were presented to look into Kavanaugh when Kavanaugh was mentioned by Romney in 2012?
if Sen Merkley is that slow a reader, if six years isn’t enough, maybe he should be a sloth caretaker at the zoo instead of a senator.
Does anybody in this country still think that politics is just about selecting the best person for a government job?
You don’t behave like this unless you think your paycheck or life is on the line.
Merkley should be censured for wasting the court’s time and making a mockery of the separation of powers.
These idiot Leftists never stop to consider the precedents their little stunts are setting. Do they really want Federal courts overruling Senate leadership from now on? Do they really want every Supreme Court nominee’s high school behavior closely scrutinized from now on?
Hey Democrat morons, how did that nuclear option work out for you?
1) This clown simply does not understand the separation of powers because his Leftist teachers don't teach civics.
2) This bozo thinks he can score brownie points with the #RESISTANCE (who don't understand the separation of powers) by spouting what he knows is nonsense.
“Merkley asserts he’s not been given adequate time to do his job of reviewing Kavanaugh’s qualifications to serve on the nation’s highest court.”
BULLSH*T. What have you been doing all this time clown? How much more “adequate time” do you need??
A Clinton or Obama judge could issue an injunction but the Senate would ignore it.
Its the separation of powers and one branch can’t tell the other branch what to do.
This is going nowhere.
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