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They should rip a page out of Mitch's palybook.
Obstruction worked well enough for him.
Time to Stop the Democrats' Obstruction
Enough with the partisan delays. The president's nominees deserve consideration.
By SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL
April 01, 2019
https://www.politico.com/magazine/st...mocrats-226341
They should rip a page out of Mitch's palybook.
Obstruction worked well enough for him.
Merrick Garland or some
That was some .
tbh one of the GOAT april fools pranks
I believed you. And it made me read a lot of the article.
You asshole.
McConnell blasts Democrats for stalling 128 Trump nominees
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/mcconnell-blasts-democrats-for-stalling-128-trump-nominees
Senate Republicans’ Ugly Nominations Agenda
Is Leader McConnell joking when he complains about obstruction?
The hard right understood that they would never persuade enough Americans
to support ending women’s reproductive freedom, taking away health-care coverage, rolling back civil rights, abolishing safeguards for clean air and clean water or other extreme ideas.
they decided there was another route to achieving their policy goals, one that doesn’t require public support or legislation: the courts.
So Republicans,
pressured by the hard right and wealthy conservative donors,
launched a sustained effort to
pack the courts with very conservative judges — preferably young ones who could sit on the bench for decades.
These prospective judges were identified as early as law school, having signaled their hard-right leanings through their writings and their membership in conservative groups such as the Federalist Society.
plan for what Senator McConnell has proudly called a “conveyor belt” of conservative judicial nominees has been interrupted.
they chose to employ the extraordinary tactic of denying confirmation to Democratic president’s nominees in order to hold vacancies open until a Republican could regain the presidency.
It was a way to nullify a Democratic president’s power to fill judicial vacancies.
We saw this tactic during the Clinton administration, when Republicans on the Judiciary Committee killed a number of President Clinton’s quite moderate judicial nominees — without even the basic courtesy of a hearing.
We saw it again during the Obama administration, when
Republicans used the filibuster and other forms of delay to more than double the number of Circuit and District Court vacancies.
During President Obama’s last two years in office, the Republican Senate confirmed fewer Circuit Court nominees than in any Congress in 40 years.
So when Senator McConnell complains about Democratic handling of nominees,
there’s no other word for it but hypocrisy.
You don’t have to take my word for it: According to the Congressional Research Service,
more circuit judges have been confirmed in the first two years of the Trump administration than at any time since President Harry Truman.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/04/02/senate-republicans-nominations-agenda-226463
The Senate Has Essentially Shut Down
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David Bernstein: “Barring something unexpected, this Tuesday will mark two months since the U.S. Senate held a roll call vote on passage of any type of legislation. That was a joint resolution to nullify President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border (which Trump later vetoed).”
“It’s been three months, as of Sunday, since the Senate last took yeas and nays on a genuine, full-fledged bill: the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act. It passed, 92 to 8, and was later signed into law.”
“So there was some eye-rolling last week when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell harshly criticized House Democrats, telling them to ‘move on’ from investigating the Trump administration, and get back to the business of legislating for the country… The United States Senate, that great deliberative body, has effectively ceased legislating this year. It has shut down. Closed for business until 2021.”
https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/13...lly-shut-down/
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