Posted on 03/31/2019 9:12:49 AM PDT by Innovative
The Senate is poised this week to consider two more conservative nominees selected by President Trump to sit on the left-leaning 9th Circuit Court of Appeals -- and the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee isn't happy about it.
That's because the nominees, Ken Lee and Dan Collins, were picked without any input from either Dianne Feinstein or Kamala Harris, California's two Democrat senators. Traditionally, the White House seeks to obtain a so-called "blue slip," or approval, from a judicial nominee's two home-state senators before pressing on with their nominations.
But the Trump administration, which has successfully nominated several conservative judges to the 9th Circuit already, has pointedly disregarded that process as it continues its push to transform the appellate court that the president repeatedly has derided as hopelessly biased and "disgraceful."
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McTurdle should go nuclear (Should have done it already)
too many Trump judges waiting because of Dem obstruction.
Time to approve them all at once and to heck with that old
corrupt lying Hag.
Does the leftist dirtbag pronounce her name FeinSTINE or FeinSTEEN? I want to know which bin this garbage woman should be placed.
judges AND other appointments. Isn’t the number over 300?
Feinstein went on: "Before President Trump took office, the blue slip had been a Senate practice for nearly one century. And during the past 100 years, before this presidency, the Senate confirmed only five judges with only one blue slip, and the last one was in 1989 – and in 100 years the Senate had never confirmed a judge without two blue slips."
She says that only 5 judges have been confirmed with only one blue slip and NONE without two blue slips. What she means is that there have only been 5 judges with only one and none without at least one. She either needs to retire or hire some staffer who understands English.
My biggest problem is that I can't find the part of the Constitution that calls for blue slips. Can someone help me with what article has blue slips? I guess having a practice in the Senate for almost 100 years makes it part of the Constitution?
Good point.
All Article III Federal judges are NATIONAL judges, now.
The Stain can jam her blue slips where the sun don't shine.
BobL wrote: Now, if their decisions were limited to only their jurisdiction, then yes, the blue slips might make some sense - but Trump is being kneecapped, AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL, by what these judges are doing.
Who gets to “blue slip” nominations to the DC Court of Appeals?
Fuming? DiFi is a little old to start vaping.
I love to see Dems snivel like three year olds.
DiFi needs to learn bad behavior has consequences, remember the justice Kavanaugh hearings fiasco?
Time for the senile old bat to retire.
Now, if their decisions were limited to only their jurisdiction, then yes, the blue slips might make some sense - but Trump is being kneecapped, AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL, by what these judges are doing.
They're NATIONAL judges now, because the Democrats made them national judges with their "Resistance" cr@p.
So FineStain can sit and spin.
HOW MANY 9TH CIRCUIT JUDGES ARE THERE?!!? 1000!?!
How does this work because he’s sent some already and I thought there were...well I don’t know how many there are but I didn’t think it was that big of a number!!
Winning, it’s not just for breakfast.
5.56mm
Well said by the both of you.
Blue slips? We ain’t got no blue slips. We don’t need no blue slips. I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ blue slips!
The 9th has been the punch line to a bad joke since forever.
“Diane Feinstein fumes as...”
“Ken Lee and Dan Collins, were picked without any input from either Dianne Feinstein or Kamala Harris”
Reasons numbers 333 and 334 that Pres Trump was elected.
After what she did to Kavanaugh, she deserves no deference whatsoever with respect to the appointment of judges — or anything else.
Feinstein should be in jail with her driver
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Yes, no one seems to talk about the Chinese spy who was her driver. Good for you!
A-freaking men. She blew her credibility with what she tried to pull on a Kavanaugh. She sat on that crap information and then leaked Christine Ballsey Fraud’s name to the press long after the hearings were over so that Kavanaugh would not get to defend himself.
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