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Posted on 05/21/2019 2:22:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
For the second time in as many weeks, the Republican majority in the U.S. Senate has confirmed a California-based nominee to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit over the objections of the state’s two Democratic senators.
The Senate voted 53-46 on Tuesday to approve the nomination of Daniel Collins, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris withheld the so-called blue slips for Collins that home-state senators traditionally return to the Senate Judiciary to indicate their sign off on a nominee for a federal judicial seat based in their state. The full Senate vote comes just a week after the full Senate voted 52-45 to confirm Jenner & Block partner Kenneth Lee to the Ninth Circuit, whom the senators also opposed.
While the senators’ opposition to Lee hinged on his initial failure to hand over controversial college writings to judicial vetters, with Collins, they raised concerns about what their judicial selection committee called issues of “temperament and rigidity.”
“In particular, we were told that Mr. Collins has a history of taking strong litigation positions for no reason other than attempting to overturn precedent and push legal boundaries,” the senators said in a joint statement in January.
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MAGA
Good. It’s about time someone with our beliefs and goals shoves it right down their throats without a second thought.
In the past, it was considered an honor for a nominee to come from the Senators home State. Ideology wasn’t involved, hence the tradition of the blue cards. Now, the Democrats are so ideological they block anyone who doesn’t meet their litmus test and so the need to get rid of the tradition of the blue cards.
Here's Daniel P. Collins form 1997:
Lewis v. Casey: A Case Study in How Standing Doctrines Help to Promote Judicial Restraint
https://fedsoc.org/commentary/publications/lewis-v-casey-a-case-study-in-how-standing-doctrines-help-to-promote-judicial-restraint
See my post #4.
This one is ESPECIALLY sweet...
YIPPEEE!
anything Feinstein and Harris want is seriously suspect.. seriously! and they definitely should NOT be afforded a veto power over court nominees,
just look at the sickening spectacle Feinstein made of the Kavanaugh hearing, for Heaven’s sake! She should have been thrown out of the Senate for that awful load of krap!
This one is a Federalist Society member. A salt block in the wound to "Chinese Dianne".
Bump!
Amen! Feinstein tried to really pull a fast one on Kavanaugh and it blew up in her face.
Understandable why they’re desperate. If libs lose the 9th circus they’ll be in for a rough ride; their jurisdiction extends out to the planet Saturn at least.
This makes somewhere around 56 Federalist Society members either made Federal judges by President Trump, or elevated by Trump (Gorsuch and Kavanaugh are a couple of examples of elevation).
federalist society nominee bump
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LIBs...crush them! Hear their lamentations.
“Elections have consequences”
Democrats LOVED that when The Little Kenyan Boy said that
Majority Leader McConnell hasn’t been in lock-step with the President on as many issues as I’d like, but
He has Done President Trump (and America) a SOLID on the issue of staffing the Judicial Branch of government.
“Amen! Feinstein tried to really pull a fast one on Kavanaugh and it blew up in her face.”
Even better, God willing, he will be going strong when she is compost.
So true...DiFi has already passed her ‘sell by’ date, time for her to bow out and spend more time with family.
It’s a beautiful thing. I think it’s going to be a great week.
They are on a roll today. Cloture invoked for:
#38 Kenneth Bell to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of North Carolina
#37 Carl Nichols to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia
#35 Stephen Clark, Sr. to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri
#23 Howard Nielson, Jr. to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Utah
Very encouraging, thank you for the post & link.
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