WHAT PEOPLE HERE DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND. THE GOP WANTS TO CONFIRM 20 APPEALS COURT

[politicaljunkie41910]

JUDGES BEFORE THE AUGUST RECESS. WE HAVE TO STOP THEM NOW. IF IT APPEARS I'M SHOUTING, I AM. WE CAN'T WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE MIDTERM ELECTIONS. IF WE WIN THE SENATE, THOSE 20 APPEALS COURT JUDGES ARE OURS TO APPOINT, NOT THEIRS. CALL YOUR SENATOR AND LET THEM KNOW. NO MORE JUDICIAL CONFIRMATIONS FOR ANY COURTS. SENATOR CORNYN TOLD HUGH HEWITT THIS MORNING THEY HAVE 20 GORSICH-TYPE NOMINEES READY TO GO, MEANING THEY ARE YOUNG, AND WILL SERVE IF CONFIRMED, FOR A LIFETIME.

[saidsimplesimon]

1. all caps??????

Thanks for spreading the message to GOTV like our lives depend upon it. On that, we can agree.

Have a peaceful weekend

[DemocracyMouse]

28. Peaceful? How 'bout an active, noisy, activist weekend?

(I get the all caps. We should all be making/distributing signs/t-shirts, conversations. And all caps can't actually hurt anyone's eyeballs or ears)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. A big fat K&R! n/t

[mcar]

3. What is your plan for stopping them?

I agree, this is a crisis. HRC and other Dems warned about this, but some were more interested in "voting their conscience," or not voting at all because they weren't excited.

Rs hold the Senate. McConnell changes the rules. Those nominees will get in and, yes, we will pay for it for the next 40 years.

[Honeycombe8]

27. It's legal and one of the benefits of "winning," sorry to say in this instance.

The Democrats don't have much power. But I hope they'll do what they can. We're all getting worn down, though. You have to pick your fights.

If there's a plan to stop the confirmations, please let us know.

[politicaljunkie41910]

32. I've said this in a couple other posts this morning. Our Senator's need to hear from us.

Write them or call them and tell them to slow walk the process as much as possible. Hugh Hewitt asked Sen Cornyn this morning on the Hugh Hewitt Show to promise him that he will get it done before the August recess. Sen Cornyn said that it's up to Sen Schummer how quickly they get it done since they all want to get out of town so they can go campaign for office. So we need to contact our Senator's and tell them to slow it down and not allow them to rush these nominations through just to get home and campaign. We may not be able to stop all of them but we can slow down the process, and shouldn't help them speed up the process just so they can adjourn and go home.

[msongs]

4. you forgot to post your list of preventive actions. nt

[sandensea]

5. The question is, how?

Bitchy Mitchy has stripped all procedural obstacles to installing as many puppet judges as he thinks they need.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. How do you think Dems can stop the approvals? Just a couple of weeks

ago, the GOP approved nominee over the objection of the state's Senator.


http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/387129-senate-confirms-trump-judicial-pick-over-objections-of-home-state-senator

[politicaljunkie41910]

33. During the confirmation process, the Senators get to question the nominees. Drag the process out as

long as possible according to the Senate rules. Senator Cornyn thinks that it will go quickly if the members of Congress want to get home sooner rather than later in order to campaign. My thought is that they shouldn't allow themselves to be rushed through the process. Only a third of Senator's are running for office at any one time, unlike House members. So all the Senator's shouldn't be in a rush to get home to campaign. Remember these are lifetime appointments.

[drray23]

7. if we win the senate they are still not ours to appoint.

The president nominates them, not the senate. Now, of course we would be able to deny them the appointment.

I am not sure how the democrats can stop them. May be some procedural maneuvers to gum the works enough that they can't do it until november.

[quartz007]

12. Senate confirms them!

which means we need a majority in senate.

[rainy]

8. It's TOO close to an election. Let the people

decide!

[Hortensis]

9. You should take your wisdom to a wiser audience.

And if you can't find one, I strongly suggest directing your shouting to the nearest non-voter. If any are in your house, maybe punch a hole in the wall to make your point.

But suggest not bothering our poor senators. If they don't know everything there is to know about this, including what they can and cannot do without the power feckless, betraying Democrats and independents gave Republicans instead (!!!!!), they're each dumber than a dozen bags of rocks.

But they're not, and for sure they are already sick right up to their bald spots with all the people who betrayed their own responsibilities and then blame them.

[Demsrule86]

18. +1000 This is not our fault we fought for Hillary.

[janterry]

10. Most of us certainly do understand

[quartz007]

11. Best and only method is to win elections!

Which means we have to give voters really good reasons to vote for democratic candidates and win hearts and minds. Simply opposing republicans for sake of opposition might not be effective.

[Kirk Lover]

13. I hear ya!! I know it's upsetting. I don't see a problem with all caps and can't understand

why others do or even care. But anyway...I'm calling my Senators again about this immigration bullshit so I will certainly throw that in. Got right through too the Senators office so we all need to start calling calling calling. Does not take long.

[Calista241]

14. If we win the Senate, and given the map i think that's highly unlikely.

They will have the biggest set of court appointments during the lame duck session you have ever seen. They'll strip all the rules, and have hundreds of votes in December and early January.

[NCjack]

15. Repukes are scared sh*tless that Trump will be proven to be

illegitimate president. If that happens, then we need to attack his appointees as being illegitimate and get them tossed out.

[Demovictory9]

16. many are racist sexist nuts

[Demsrule86]

17. And what can we do about it? We have no power to stop them...but oh those emails.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. No Judicial confirmations in the last year of tRump's Presidency. . . . nt

[turbinetree]

20. First and foremost is to impeach everyone of them, just like John Clapper said, the sexual

predator was basically installed in his position...................and everything that these assholes are doing is in violation of the Constitution, the election was rigged, starting with Gorsuch, and if I were to be elected................I would remove them from the posts,,,,,,,,yes that is dictatorial but you know what...........................so what....................they don't care neither do I from this point forward...................

[pecosbob]

21. No elected Democratic Party member should participate in any Repub appointments...period

ever again...for any reason.

[onenote]

22. Still waiting for the shouting OP to explain how these confirmations can be stopped.

[Iggo]

23. Um, yeah we do. (n/t)

[onenote]

24. By the way, there are only 10 appeals court nominations pending

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

25. What makes you think we don't understand?

Will all caps make us understand if we don't already?

[SWBTATTReg]

31. I agree, the all caps wasn't really needed, and plus also, I think all of us in DU land ...

are very aware of these confirmations etc. We do have the wise words of the constitution to protect us, fortunately and hopefully they'll use in full force against these dictatorial actions. What's happening to the repugs will come back to bite them, because they seem to be concentrating on 'moral issues' from a legislative basis, which leads to lots of problems in the future, being that attempting to write laws for such things tend to be overly generic and thus not enforceable, due to the vague language in the legislative attempts.

They're finding a variety of groups now opposing the repugs in their attempts (businesses against rabid immigration attempts, tax law of 2018 biased towards the ultra rich and corporations (and people are realizing what's really happening to the results of this tax law). Businesses are using the money to buy themselves back, not plow into increased salaries or hourly rates. Stock market is going to hugely inflated and all it is going to take to tumble the dominoes is 1 big event to shake the stock market for a massive correction.

[NewJeffCT]

26. If Democrats can win back the senate

I say that not one judge should be confirmed at ANY level - not the Supreme Court, nor any federal court below that.

Not just as revenge for Garland, but because Team Trump is going to be under MULTIPLE investigations if Democrats can win back both houses.

[HenryWallace]

29. You're asking me to get excited about the barn door!

"Constitutional" Chuck Grassley held unprecedented amounts of Federal Judgeships open for just under a decade. Did the Party leadership use this stonewalling as a campaign issue? Not to my knowledge.

Trump is a joke; and the Republicans have used his distractions to pass truly heinous legislation.

Yet he does have one singular accomplishment; he has packed the Federal courts with right wing ideologues for a generation and a half.

[olegramps]

30. Elections have consequences and this is a prime example of what happens.

[Freethinker65]

34. Yep