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msongs

(67,403 posts) Wed Jan 12, 2022, 08:11 PM Jan 2022

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will senate dems finally kill the blue slips repubs use to block judges?

this article at dKos makes it seem that is finally going to happen but I dont get that dems have actually done it. would be nice if they did as laid out in the article...

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/12/2074257/-With-Senate-focused-on-voting-rights-Republicans-cannot-not-be-racist-toward-Black-judicial-nominee

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will senate dems finally kill the blue slips repubs use to block judges? (Original Post) msongs Jan 2022 OP

The Repub ignored blue slips when they were in a majority underpants Jan 2022 #1

K&R for visibility. crickets Jan 2022 #2

underpants

(182,788 posts)

1. The Repub ignored blue slips when they were in a majority

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Wed Jan 12, 2022, 08:19 PM

Jan 2022

I can’t remember who the judge was that got a lot of the attention.

crickets

(25,969 posts)

2. K&R for visibility.

Reply to msongs (Original post)

Wed Jan 12, 2022, 09:31 PM

Jan 2022

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