Schumer Bashes McConnells Push To Roll Dems On Judicial Nominees [View all]
Source: Talking Points Memo
By TIERNEY SNEED Published OCTOBER 11, 2017 11:26 AM
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) pushed back on comments made by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) indicating that the top Senate Republican would like to eliminate the last tool Democrats have to block President Trump’s judicial nominees.
“The Senate has fewer and fewer mechanisms that create bipartisanship and bring people to an agreement. The blue slips are one of them,” Schumer said Wednesday in a statement, referring to the Senate tradition that a judicial nominee not move forward until both home state senators return the so-called “blue slip” approving their nomination.
“It’s just a shame that Senator McConnell is willing to abandon it for circuit court judges. We hope that [Judiciary] Chairman [Chuck] Grassley, who has always believed in the traditions of the Senate, will resist Senator McConnell’s request,” Schumer’s statement continued.
In an interview with the Weekly Standard published earlier Wednesday, McConnell said that Republicans going forward will treat blue slips “as simply notification of how you’re going to vote, not as an opportunity to blackball.”
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Mitch McConnell should be fucking IMPEACHED and for all of you that voted for him in Kentucky, just imagine for one minute what the sexual predator is going to do to you in the court at the federal level, you think you live in shit now, your are and everyone else is going to get fucked, and if you don't think so.......................think of your health care, voting all it takes is one judge in your state sending it up the chain and giving it to John Roberts
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