Posted on 10/12/2018 2:10:20 AM PDT by Helicondelta
After months of negotiations and delays, the White House is moving to fill California’s three vacancies on the influential 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals — over the strenuous objections of the state’s two Democratic senators.
President Trump’s nominees for the appeals court — litigators Daniel Collins and Kenneth Lee and Assistant United States Attorney Patrick Bumatay — are all based in Southern California, are prominent members of the conservative Federalist Society, and have worked for Republican administrations.
None of the three were approved by Feinstein or Harris via a process known as a “blue slip,” the senators’ offices confirmed Thursday.
“Last night the White House moved forward without consulting me, picking controversial candidates from its initial list and another individual with no judicial experience who had not previously been suggested,” Feinstein said in a statement.
“Instead of working with our office to identify consensus nominees for the 9th Circuit, the White House continues to try to pack the courts with partisan judges who will blindly support the President’s agenda, instead of acting as an independent check on this Administration,” Lily Adams, Harris’ communications director, said in a statement.
Traditionally, presidents have deferred to home state senators when nominating federal judges, agreeing not to nominate people unless those senators returned their blue slip in support of the prospective judge.
President Trump and Senate Republicans, however, have done away with that custom, angering Democrats as they pushed forward controversial nominees for appeals court posts in Ohio, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
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Boy, does Trump know how to play this game!
Fix the Courts and lyin’ DiFi’s fat caboose all in one shot!
Blue slips are courtesies no longer warranted. Further, the 9th circuit covers an incredibly large area of the US, California making up on a small fraction. In all, it also includes Alaska, Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, plus the Northern Marian Islands and Guam. Bottom line, who cares what Californian Senators Feinstein and Harris say? If they do not like the nominees, they can use their ‘advice and consent’ role to vote against them when the confirmation vote is taken.
Treating her like the useless, wicked witch that she is, he bypassed her wrinkled a##, bully!
The Rats are angry? And that’s news because...?
Yes, split up and move the 9th circuit. Maybe Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Hawaii, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands in a new circuit, based out of maybe Boise. Leave the 9th circuit with California, Nevada, and Arizona, based out of Reno, Phoenix, or Tuscon?
Somebody toss a bucket of water on this witch and Maxine Waters! What a couple of witches.
The Constitution is the law of the land - not customs. No where in the Constitution does it mention or require Senators of a state to approve who the President selects for judiciary appointments. The full Senate will have opportunity to vote the President's judiciary selections up or down. If Feinstein and Harris don't like the way things are done, they can pound sand or take their case to the Supreme court, where they will lose - LOL!!
I love to see powerless democrats! That's all!
“He’s like a shark....he never sleeps & he never stops swimming.”
I call him the Honey Badger.
How can these two witches, Feinstein and Harris, have any say? They are not members of polite society. Lying, screaming, scheming, stealing, cheating, sneaking,leaking,stinking,shirking,lurking,sleazing,skeezing ho ass bitches.
“Instead of working with our office to identify consensus nominees for the 9th Circuit, the White House continues to try to pack the courts with partisan judges who will blindly support the President’s agenda, instead of acting as an independent check on this Administration,” Lily Adams, Harris’ communications director, said in a statement.
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Too. Effing. Bad.
Feinstain and Harris would only approve of traitors like themselves.
“...and the Democrat Party is reduced to permanent minority status.”
Di, the world is moving along nicely without your approval.
Trump MAGA!
The courts and the administrative state is where the Dims power lies when they are the minority. The administrative state must be dismantled and the judiciary must be brought back into line.
Maybe we can have civility again when the Democrats are run out of town on a rail, and the Democrat Party is reduced to permanent minority status.
“So much for civility. Not-so-finestine and Harris have expended all their political capital, no one will listen to their whining over this.”
Now if we can hold the Senate for 6 more years, we might be able to finally end left wing judicial activism.
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