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To: BobL
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Bob,

This is what I get off the Internet.

Nominees must make it out of this Committee before the entire Senate can Confirm them. If they are blocked in Committee, it’s over.

So it looks to me like Republicans can block everything, if they were so inclined.




20 posted on 11/28/2021 4:29:15 PM PST by AnthonySoprano (‘’)
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To: AnthonySoprano

See prior reply. The bottom line is that the DEMOCRATS run the Senate and judges are exempt from the filibuster. Graham can do no more to stop judges than Shumer could under Trump (when the Democrats were in the same position as Graham).

It’s possible that Graham could gum things up, as Shumer did, and slow things down by a few days, and I’ll agree it’s better than doing nothing, but it won’t stop the judges...if 50 Democrats want them, they WILL get confirmed in the Senate.

500,000 Trump voters sat out the Georgia runoffs. If either Republican had won either runoff, then REPUBLICANS would run the Senate and could slow judges to a crawl, or stop them all together.

So, if you want pissed at someone, get pissed at those 500,000 Trump voters, or get pissed at their leader, Lin Wood...who told those Trump voters to give those Senate seats to the Democrats...Graham is powerless as he’s in the MINORITY in the Senate.


23 posted on 11/28/2021 6:40:35 PM PST by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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