Posted on 06/20/2020 11:47:54 AM PDT by knighthawk
Sen. Lindsey Graham said Saturday he will not take up President Trump's nomination for a new U.S. attorney for Manhattan unless New York's Democratic senators sign off.
Graham, a Republican from South Carolina who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he will honor the "blue slip" tradition and require the consent of home state senators to proceed -- in this case, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.
Graham's statement signals an uphill climb for Trump to get a new Senate-confirmed federal prosecutor in one of the nations most high-profile districts. It comes hours after Attorney General Bill Barr made a Friday night announcement that Geoffrey Berman, the current U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, is stepping down.
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HEY NADLESS McCONNELL......REMOVE HIM FROM THIS COMMITTEE!!
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Linda. Buy a new damned dress and shut TFU.
Worse.
I'd much rather have an overt enemy than a pretend friend.
Graham is a traitor.
He’s a traitor, he is worse by a large margin.
Of course they wouldn’t offer the same deal, they’re not the Stupid Party, the Repubs are, always will be.
I do like the way you think...
Sorry, but he’s not the moron,the people that continually vote him into office are.
How Collegial of him.
The little faggot.
It’s the same play, always, never changes.
If you we’re not done with this “jackass” 4 years ago, may I suggest going back to bed.
How about we leave the position open until Juan McCain’s Butt Boy grows a pair? Even if that means it goes unfilled through 2024.
“He [Lindsay Graham] is the god of South Carolina. He is adored, loved,worshiped, and held in high esteem by the voters of South Carolina. Proof of that is his reelection as every election cycle.”
Oh, please...Flimsey Tinkerbelle is god to no one! He gets renominated because of our stupid open primary system that lets Democrats vote for the Republican of their choice with no provision for runoffs.
Flimsey was heir apparent to the late Strom Thurmond’s Senate seat because the latter had been impressed with his performance in the House. I voted for him in 2002 and have voted against him ever since. He’s been in office almost eighteen years now and voters are reluctant to throw away all that seniority.
Tinkerbelle is a loose cannon in the Senate but we’re stuck with him. He does not in any way speak for the Republican majority in South Carolina.
Do you mean the original statement by “sport” that Flimsey “is a god in South Carolina”? Did you notice the quotation marks in the lead paragraph? I was quoting “sport”’s original post and I strongly disagreed.
That’s where you’ll find your westbound horse.
;^)
That, in case you missed it was sarcasm to the nth degree.
OK, I missed it. Got me there. Didn’t see the /sarc tag.
But whenever Flimsey Grahamnesty’s name comes up, a lot of people here express disappointment that Republicans in a red state like South Carolina keep reelecting a chameleon like Lindsey who has been a letdown to conservatives except when he’s campaigning for reelection.
The system here is stacked against anti-incumbency, as noted.
And we have had godlike Senators in the past. J. Strom Thurmond, and long before him, L. Mendel Rivers, who steered so many military assets & bases into the state that it was said South Carolina was sufficiently well armed to attempt secession again.
Meanwhile, we’re stuck with Linda. And my house was teleported into the district of the biggest racist in South Carolina, Cong. James E. Clyburn.
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