Senator Pat Toomey is on C-Span fibbin' about how many Obama judicial nominees the GOP have blocked

[Tx4obama]

Toomey has a poster board up that says 215 confirmed and only TWO blocked.

The GOP has filibustered TONS of judicial nominees over the past few years - TONS - not only two.

And there are even nominees that gave up and withdrew their names and/or never got a full senate vote due to not enough cloture votes.

Some of them listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_judicial_appointment_controversies

Grrr!!!

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And TODAY the GOP blocked a bunch more judicial nominees. Today the agenda below was supposed to be voted on in committee because the GOP did not show up last time - and apparently they did not show up again today to the Senate committee meeting because it has been announced that it has been postponed once again!
If the GOP keeps refusing to show up to the Senate Judicial Committee meetings to vote the nominations out of committee then they will NEVER get sent to the full senate for a full senate vote!

Results of Executive Business Meeting - November 21, 2013
The Senate Judiciary Committee held an executive business meeting to consider pending nominations and legislation on November 21, 2013. A quorum was not present, and the Committee was not able to complete action on pending matters. The meeting recessed subject to the call of the Chair.

Agenda
I. Nominations

John B. Owens, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit

Michelle T. Friedland, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit

Matthew Frederick Leitman, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan

Judith Ellen Levy, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan

Laurie J. Michelson, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan

Linda Vivienne Parker, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan

Christopher Reid Cooper, to be United States District Judge for the District of Columbia

Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr., to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

M. Douglas Harpool, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Edward G. Smith, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan

Peter Joseph Kadzik, to be an Assistant Attorney General

Robert L. Hobbs, to be United States Marshal for the Eastern District of Texas

Gary L. Blankenship, to be United States Marshal for the Southern District of Texas


II. Legislation

S.619, Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013 (Leahy, Paul)

S.1410, Smarter Sentencing Act of 2013 (Durbin, Lee, Leahy)

S.1675, Recidivism Reduction and Public Safety Act 2013 (Whitehouse)

S.975, Court-Appointed Guardian Accountability and Senior Protection Act (Klobuchar, Cornyn)

http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/

[Cane4Dems]

1. i dont have a clue about senate procedures

....but is there no way for dems to get these nominations through without needing the committee to vote on them before the Senate?

[Tx4obama]

6. I'm not sure. Guess we will have to wait to see what happens after the first of the year when...

... when they come back from holiday recess.

[Firebrand Gary]

2. I hope Patrick Murphy spanks his ass in the 2016 elections...nt

[starroute]

3. The GOP is like the old poem about the little man who wasn't there

The other day upon the stair
I saw a man who wasn't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh how I wish he'd go away!

[Major Hogwash]

4. Senate Republicans have been lying about it for 3 years.

This morning in a nearly empty Senate chamber Senator Sessions said that they "have been very, very fair to the nominees" that President Obama has picked.

That's been their talking points for the last few months -- they've been very, very fair to the nominees.

It's a total frickin' lie . . . yet the mainstream media refuses to discuss it!!

[jmowreader]

8. Why yes, of course they've been very fair to Obama's nominees

They are courteous enough to wait until the Clerk of the Senate reads the nominees' full names before they launch their filibusters.

[savalez]

5. Can they be forced to attend?

Is this something that can be considered mandatory and have them brought in?

[Tx4obama]

7. I know that the Sargent of Arms can be ordered to bring senators to the 'floor' of the senate...

... when they do not have a quorum in the 'full senate' -- but I think that might not count for 'committee meetings'.

I don't know if senators ever refused to show up for committee meetings before in the past