Posted on 03/14/2019 2:11:16 AM PDT by cotton1706
Edited on 03/14/2019 8:26:43 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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At least one of Trump’s judges is a total disaster.
Mark J. Bennett
Ninth Circuit
Approved 72-27
All 27 “No” votes were Republicans!
Almost three quarters of Trump’s 53 District Judge appointments are suspect:
10 Judges - confirmed with zero “NO” votes
3 Judges - confirmed with one, two, or three “NO” votes
26 Judges - confirmed by voice vote
We can always count on some FReeper to turn good news into bad.
Obama appointed 55. 36 is good progress and really helps to start countering the damage Obama did to the Circuit Courts but there is still a long way to go.
“Almost three quarters of Trump’s 53 District Judge appointments are suspect:
10 Judges - confirmed with zero “NO” votes
3 Judges - confirmed with one, two, or three “NO” votes
26 Judges - confirmed by voice vote”
Either you’re trolling us or you’re not familiar with how these confirmations work.
Either way, no one is ‘suspect’ because they get votes from the other party...in fact, until recently virtually ALL judges at the District Court level were confirmed by a quick voice vote. During Bush Jr., the Democrats started slowing down Circuit Court votes, but still always allowed District Court judges to sail through...and some of these judges are VERY CONSERVATIVE. District judges don’t make policy (until Trump, that is), Circuit Court and Supreme Court judges do. So The Democrats simply didn’t see much value in fighting the District judges, they had bigger fish to fry.
Of course that changed with Trump, but at the beginning, the Democrats didn’t bother to fight District judges, hence those votes. But NO ONE on our side complained about those judges (other than some trolls), because they were EXCELLENT PICKS - even if the Democrats didn’t fight them. (maybe an exception or two, but I can’t think of any)
Now, of course, the Democrat fight every single one - but only because they’ve changed course, not Trump.
We can always count on some FReeper to turn good news into bad.
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YOU ARE SO RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!
"On July 20, 2006, Gorsuch was confirmed by unanimous voice vote in the U.S. Senate to the Tenth Circuit."
The fact is, even now democrats don't oppose every judicial nominee, in fact many good Federalist Society conservatives sail through and you never hear about them. They pick and choose those they can get some media coverage by opposing and hammer some particular ruling or comment the Judge made or some perceived lack of experience.
Looks like you have a point:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/11/democrats-praise-trumps-judicial-nominee-9th-circu/ -
Reversing the usual script, Democrats praised one of President Trump’s federal appeals court nominees Wednesday while Republicans brought the tough questions for Mark Jeremy Bennett over his defense of gun control laws and free speech rights.
Mr. Bennett, a former Hawaii attorney general now nominated to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, had backed a limited interpretation of Second Amendment rights that was overturned by the Supreme Court.
Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, also questioned Mr. Bennett over opposition to Citizens United, the Supreme Court case that overturned campaign finance restrictions and helped pave the way for the current system.
“You took positions, taking a very narrow view of what the First Amendment protects,” Mr. Cruz told him during a confirmation hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Usually it’s Democrats who fire the tough questions at Mr. Trump’s judicial picks, but Mr. Bennett won praise from them.
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota Democrat, asked Mr. Bennett why he backed legalizing same-sex marriage in Hawaii even before the U.S. Supreme Court had established a nationwide right.
Lindsey Graham needs to end the practice of allowing Democrats to use (or threaten to use) the BLUE SLIP process to effectively VETO the President’s DISTRICT COURT JUDGE nominees.
That must have been one of Ivanka’s picks.
Didn’t they just do that with a pick?
Didn’t they just do that with a pick?
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I don’t know. Oftentimes in the past just the threat of the Democrat Senator(s) potentially using the Blue Slip VETO was enough to motivate Republican Presidents to NOMINATE “SQUISHES” for blue state District Court judgeships. That threat really needs to end.
Here ya go:
And maybe the NYTimes agrees with you?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/opinion/senate-judicial-nominees-blue-slips.html
I couldn’t read the 2nd linked article since I refuse to pay the NYT for access.
But the 1st link shows the benefits of NO LONGER allowing the Blue Slip process to be used as a VETO on the President’s APPEALS COURT nominees. Lindsey Graham has not yet taken the same measure for nominees at the District Court level. Lindsey 2.0 needs to emerge and change this stupid Lindsey 1.0 accommodation to the Senate’s ‘RATS.
Graham has said several times that he will honor the blue slip process for fed district court but not for appeals court.
Graham has said several times that he will honor the blue slip process for fed district court but not for appeals court.
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Yes. And THAT is the reason why we have a growing number of states such as California and Hawaii loaded with agendanista judges — even the Republican appointed ones. Graham needs to change that at the first instance of abuse (it already happened) since there are a huge number of Federal District Court judgeships current vacant just waiting for GOOD Trump nominees.
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