Posted on 02/24/2019 3:55:43 PM PST by jazusamo
Wonder what percentage of Appeals Court judges are pulled from the District courts...
If it is significant, why allow Democrats to determine the field of candidates???
I couldn’t agree more.
I believe the history of it was to show a courtesy to home state senators on nominees and was rarely used. Now it has become a tool of obstructionism and and a gotcha thing.
Dump it now.
We won, you lost.
ESAD.
Regards.
Senate reignites blue slip war over Trump court picks
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Demwits reignite blue slip war over Trump court picks
The hell with some idiotic arcane Senate sorority rule. There is nothing in the Constitution about “blue slips”.
Wonder what percentage of Appeals Court judges are pulled from the District courts...
If it is significant, why allow Democrats to determine the field of candidates???
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7 of the current vacancies as well as one of the known near-term future vacancies are vacant because the prior incumbent has been elevated. So yes, the District Courts in some measure serve as “farm teams” for nominees to the Courts of Appeals. If we ACTUALLY fill all the vacancies with Trump nominees, the District Courts will be an even RICHER source of Court of Appeals judges.
Get off your dead ass, Lindsay!
Ram ‘em through Turtle! All of them.
Renominate Ryan Bounds and ram him through too.
Graham said he will honor blue slips for district court judges <<<<
WHY????....Does he think there is some kind of “Honor” left in the Senate???
I remember seeing some video of that ancient and senile West Virginian - Sennu-tah Rob-baht Byrd - waxing eloquent about how he loved the institution of the U.S. Senate and its truhhdishuns.
And this blue slip $h1t and the like is the kind of stuff I think he liked the MOST. Skroo the Constitution and the laws - we’ll just make up stuff because we have our little club here and everyone who is a member gets rich and gets to be cossetted in luxury in the U.S. Capitol while telling other people what they can and can’t do with their lives, and taking more and more freedoms away.
This MAGA may not last forever, but it sure is nice.
Thank you President Donald J. Trump!!
NOVEMBER 2016 - BEST ELECTION EVER -
The 9th Circuit is the dims rubber stamp court. No wonder they are squealing like a pig.
The 9th Circuit is the dims rubber stamp court. No wonder they are squealing like a pig.
Finally! Lindsey must lurk on FR....
If the repub party is to survive the repub quislings need to quickly approve ALL of President Trump’s nominees .
‘If the repub party is to survive the repub quislings need to quickly approve ALL of President Trump’s nominees .’
They have the numbers to do it. I guess we’ll see if the repubs have the spine to do it. It could happen but I wouldn’t bet the farm on it.
I can’t seem to find any mention of blue slips in the Constitution.
So in Graham being intentionally obtuse or is he really that shallow???
Since you like to post the same reply to threads on judicial nominations, I’ll post my same reply to you
The President’s nominations are there. They’ve been there for quite some time. But the REPUBLICAN Senate has chosen to not act on them....for more than four months.
All the excuses about McCain and Flake no longer hold water. The Republican Senate, led by McConnell, simply REFUSE to confirm President Trump’s picks.
This is NOT the President’s fault. It is the fault of his enemy, the GOP!
The Democrats have created the war over judicial nominees. They also obstructing everything Trump so this action is necessary to stop their total obstruction. Withholding their BlueSlips has nothing to do with the qualifications and has everything to do with ideology and obstruction of Trump.
Blue Slip, Blue $HIT!
This an appointment to a FEDERAL court, NOT a California court.
This court decides NATIONAL issues. What business is it of the states senators other than their ONE vote out of 100?
This Blue Slip $HIT has got to END! or show me the words “blue slip” in the constitution.
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