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Al Franken will use Senate blue-slip tradition to block Trump judiciary nominee
The Washington Times ^
| Sept 5, 2017
| Alex Swoyer
Posted on 09/05/2017 4:46:40 PM PDT by jazusamo
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To: jazusamo
Note that “tradition” does not equal “law” or even “rule.”
Hope McConnell looks at his poll numbers and does the right thing.
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posted on
09/05/2017 5:46:35 PM PDT
by
Behind Liberal Lines
(Their side circles the wagons. Our side revs up the bus.)
To: jazusamo
Al Franken has a NYT best seller currently, apparently. Some thing like “from SNL to a serious senator.” I am surprised a publisher would bother to put covers on a one paragraph essay.
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posted on
09/05/2017 5:48:15 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
(We have a Crisis of Information in this country. Our enemies hold the megaphone.)
To: jazusamo
OK then, I’ll bet DjT knows how to play hardball with Franken and/or Minnesocold.
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posted on
09/05/2017 5:48:45 PM PDT
by
chiller
(If liberals didn't have double standards, they'd have none at all.)
To: gibsonguy
McConnell will not do that as he is an obstructionist. He can’t stand Trump so in essence will allow Franken’s stunt.
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posted on
09/05/2017 5:49:09 PM PDT
by
marygam
(can this country do a U turn and be great again?)
To: Salvation
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posted on
09/05/2017 5:49:35 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
To: vette6387
Oh yeah, Jesse Ventura, what a joke.
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posted on
09/05/2017 5:54:58 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(Have YOU Donated to Keep Free Republic Up and Running?)
To: jazusamo
“Mr. Franken said he is objecting because Judge Stras looks to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas”
Using the left’s “logic” - So, Mr. Franken is a racist. Otherwise, he would not object to Judge Stras looking to SCJ Thomas as a role model.
To: MomwithHope
If it is you that keeps posting it, THANKS! Since first seeing this some time ago it's the second thing I think of when I hear his name....the first one being how he and the Rat Party machine stole the election on his first run.
So no,it's mainly others...but I've posted it once or twice myself.
To: jazusamo
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The ever irrelevent Al Frankenstein!
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:03:34 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: TheZMan
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Elections have consequences!
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:04:58 PM PDT
by
editor-surveyor
(Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
To: jazusamo
Sounds like another arcane tradition that needs to die a horrible, painful, dhimmirat-chafing death.
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:07:21 PM PDT
by
PubliusMM
(RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. Mr Trump, we've got your six.)
To: jazusamo
Arcane my a**. This is the reason why you see left wing nuts in blue states appointed by republicans.
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:13:55 PM PDT
by
j.havenfarm
( 1,000 Posts as of 8/11/17! Still not shutting up after all these years!)
To: jazusamo
No wonder they can’t get anything done in the Senate ... they are operating with Romper Room rules .... time to grow up children!
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:20:49 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
To: rollo tomasi
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:26:40 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: jazusamo
“Traditions” are made to be broken. Follow the Constitution.
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:36:59 PM PDT
by
fwdude
(Democrats have not been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves.)
To: canalabamian
Doesn’t the Constitution empower the Senate to make their own rules?
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:38:57 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
To: jazusamo
Time for that tradition to die.
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:41:13 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: jazusamo
Franken is a Nazi ideologue.
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:50:36 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
To: jazusamo
This is one of the first non-blue slips. Trump has had 4 Circuit Judges confirmed and 11 others blue-slipped, already a record for the first year (JFK had 14)
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posted on
09/05/2017 6:54:03 PM PDT
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: jazusamo
I expect the “Rats” to do this, but the Republican majority in the Senate so not go along. The swamp is bigger than I thought. Take out the RINOs in primaries.
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