Posted on 10/04/2018 4:16:07 PM PDT by jazusamo
Sen. Jeff Merkley asked a court Thursday afternoon to quickly step in and delay the Senate from voting on this weekend on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Mr. Merkley has filed a long-shot lawsuit arguing President Trump has violated the Constitution by withholding documents from Judge Kavanaugh’s past, denying senators the ability to make an informed decision on the nomination. That, he says, violates the Constitution’s demand that the Senate give “advice and consent” on nominations.
The Oregon Democrat asked for a hearing Friday afternoon or Saturday morning, just before the Senate is expected to hold a final vote on the judge’s elevation.
“Once the vote is taken, plaintiff’s ability to comply with the Constitution’s advice and consent process will be permanently extinguished,” the senator’s lawyers wrote to Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee to the federal district court in Washington, D.C.
Judge Jackson on Wednesday scheduled a hearing for next Tuesday, after all sides had a chance to submit briefs.
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Yor ignorance is displayed
He's right. Trump should do it.
right after he unseals all of obama's sealed documents.
Doesn’t matter. They get one turd judge to issue the stay and we have to wait for it to go up the chain. And SCOTUS 4 to 4 decisions allow the lower court ruling to stand....
They want the documents which are part of the 100K that the President and lawyers has said it’s executive privledge. They have reviewed 500,000 documents over 87 days.
They want the email that is in the 100K which Sen. Leahy says Kav lied years ago when going through hearings for Judge. It has to do with a confidential email that the Dems had, wrote by Leahy that a republican aid took from the computer and passed it on to Kav and others regarding strategy for interviewing judicial nominee’s.
This why they want the court order.
You can research it for exact detail and background.
Forgive us in Oregon...lord knows I didn’t vote for him. They must be grooming him for some position. Remember when he went to the border to try to inspect the facility where they were housing illegal children? In the past we hardly heard from him...but, now every issue... there is Merkley, looking for the camera and lights. What is he up to?
Yep it’s their Hail Mary pass- knowing the radical Judges so far ruling against Trump, I expect this to be go through.
If it is granted, the Senate could tell them they have no authority and proceed. I wonder why can’t they get another Judge to over that one. Seems one Judge makes the rule for the entire country.
Of course, Trump could fire the Judge couldn’t he?
Can they find a judge sufficiently corrupt to ignore the obvious fact that every Senator who is dissatisfied about the documents can vote “no”?
I found this where it says the Federal Judiciary plays no role in nomination and confirmation process.
http://www.uscourts.gov/faqs-federal-judges
The filthy dems are desperate. This is the most important thing in the world to the party of abortion.
I want them to lose. I want them furious. I want them foaming at the mouth, howling over Kavanaugh being confirmed. I want them yelling at the moon and making fools of themselves.
The people in hell want ice water too.
I think he fancies himself Presidential material. Can’t be the Veepstakes thing, unless he thinks that guaranteeing Oregon’s 7 electoral votes for the Democrats is some kind of big deal. Pretty much a given.
I’d love to see him in a debate.
Sadly, he was born a couple of hours drive from me , in Myrtle Creek, OR, and then moved to Roseburg for the first grade. Good conservative area. Then, the family moved to Portland.
Yeah, that was me.
The Democrats are easy to predict. It’s the Republicans who have acted unpredictably.
POTUS prefers always to be unpredictable.
Sen. Jeff Merkley asked a court Thursday afternoon to quickly step in and delay the Senate from voting on this weekend on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
What a complete blithering asshole.
I don’t believe a judge can delay a Senate vote.
The senators, especially those facing difficult elections, don’t want to be on the record voting at all.
Somebody send this hippy freak a copy of the U.S. Constitution and somebody to read it to him.
if they try it, send police to federal judge and jail him, and say too bad for him we do not obey laws made up by federal judges
it is what their plan is to finish the coup, it is backed by russia china and iran, we will have war
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