The Senate is functioning.
From Zen Master: “Lagoa and Luck (Eleventh Circuit nominees) will get their hearing next Wednesday.
A Bush43 district judge announced he’ll assume senior status in March. There are 27 other GOP-appointed district judges eligible to do so prior to the election; I hope they all follow his lead.”
As I said, Lindsay Granite has said while he will NOT honor blue slips for appellate court judges, he will honor them for district court judges and Trump has pretty much filled all those he can fill at the moment.
“As I said, Lindsay Granite has said while he will NOT honor blue slips for appellate court judges, he will honor them for district court judges and Trump has pretty much filled all those he can fill at the moment.”
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Gramnesty could easily honor the Constitution (which no where says a single Senator or two Senators can effectively VETO a Presidential Judiciary nomination).
There are 75 of Trump’s Judicial nominees pending confirmation in the Senate (of which 54 are pending in Lindsey Graham’s Judiciary Committee). This is INEXCUSABLE! Graham needs to no longer allow the DemocRATS to use the Blue Slip process to stop consideration of Trump’s nominees. And McConnell needs to schedule confirmation votes on nominees quicker after they’re out of the Judiciary Committee.
There are 4 District Judges scheduled for confirmation vote the week the Senate returns from recess on October 15th.
You call Graham “Granite”. To me he more like slippery slime.