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2018-11-21 Government

Democrats Try to Devise A Way To Dilute Trump's Judicial Picks

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Posted by DarthVader 2018-11-21 09:10|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 A Donk POTUS would tell minority-status Republicans to pound sand. Do the same

Posted by Frank G 2018-11-21 10:43|| 2018-11-21 10:43|| Front Page Top

#2 Democrats Try to Devise A Way To Dilute Trump's Judicial Picks

Like the 9th Circuit / Hawaiian judges aren't pretty much doing this already?

Posted by Raj 2018-11-21 10:46|| 2018-11-21 10:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Civility. Bipartisanship. They burnt that bridge in L'Affair Kavanaugh and then turned around and defecated on the ashes...

Posted by magpie 2018-11-21 12:29|| 2018-11-21 12:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Elections have consequences. No reason to compromise in the Senate; Flake, Corker, and McCain are gone. Feinstein, Harris and other Dems are worried about their arses being subpoenaed into a hearing or GJ.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-11-21 18:10|| 2018-11-21 18:10|| Front Page Top

#5 He's sure to appoint a female and you can't accuse a woman of sexually harassing people at an underage drinking party can you? Even if someone is willing to testify that she was seen handing a person a drink in a red solo cup at the party no one cares.

Posted by jpal 2018-11-21 21:23|| 2018-11-21 21:23|| Front Page Top

#6 I worry that whenever the pendulum swings back to Dem's control they will add more liberal judges adding to the 9 SCOTUS to regain power. Maybe it's time to have Congress say no more than 9.

Posted by Jan 2018-11-21 22:13|| 2018-11-21 22:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Is this another of their fever dreams, like the electors of the Electoral College voting against Trump instead of for him as they’d been elected to do, or the Republican senators suddenly deciding they hate him enough to impeach him, after whcih Hillary would somehow suddenly become president?

After all, so long as they don’t have a veto-proof majority in the Senate, President Trump can veto anything that somehow gets through both houses of Congress.

Posted by trailing wife 2018-11-21 23:24|| 2018-11-21 23:24|| Front Page Top

#8 What? Justice Obama? Who picked him?
Why, President Clinton. Her dictum,
Inflating the court
With the weightiest sort,
Was, "A justice for every last victim!"

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2018-11-21 23:44|| 2018-11-21 23:44|| Front Page Top

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