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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMitch McConnell Says Obama's Circuit Court Nominees Won't Be Confirmed Anymore
Remember, the problem is we Dems just need to "reach across the aisle" and then everything would be Okee - dokee.
In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, McConnell was asked about judicial confirmations.
"So far, the only judges weve confirmed have been federal district judges that have been signed off on by Republican senators, McConnell said. Asked if he expects that to be the case through 2016, McConnell said, "I think that's highly likely, yeah."
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Beyond them, there are an additional seven circuit court vacancies around the country that don't yet have nominees. If McConnell's vow is true, none of those seats will get filled, either.
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For some context: President George W. Bush had to work with a Democratic Senate in his final two years in office. By this point in Bush's seventh year, the Senate had confirmed 15 of his district court nominees and three circuit court nominees.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/04/mitch-mcconnell-obama-judges_n_7515820.html
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)he is attacking the American people and not doing his job
onenote
(42,715 posts)under the US Constitution?
You may be in the running if so.
What he's doing is reprehensible. But its not illegal, its politics.
If the Senate brought up each nominee for a vote and the Republicans voted as a bloc against confirmation, would that not be doing his job?
The answer to the Repubs playing hardball is for the Democrats to find ways to play hardball too, blocking things the repub majority wants to pass.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Working against the USA is treason and that is what he is doing
onenote
(42,715 posts)Article III, Section 3 of the United States Constitution.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)mindem
(1,580 posts)Dems playing hardball, that's a good one. I don't think the word fight is in their vocabulary anymore.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)get what we want. I is the poor who will lose then. You know all those people who do not matter.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)If they did, what would it be?
onenote
(42,715 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)free in bulk.
onenote
(42,715 posts)It's weird...I can't bring myself to toss a copy of the Constitution in the trash, but various groups send me one all the time!
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)mainstreetonce
(4,178 posts)He is not representing all the people.
onenote
(42,715 posts)He was elected Senator to serve the people of Kentucky. And he was elected to serve as majority leader by the majority party in the Senate.
What he's doing is reprehensible. But its politics and its not impeachable (as if a Republican leader could be impeached by a Republican House and convicted by a Republican Senate) for representing the interests of Republicans.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Now I can ascribe Senate inaction to an evil plan rather than garden variety laziness. Notice how you don't hear too much yammering from the Republicans about "the will of the people" nowadays, when the Senate is engaged in a deliberate program to subvert the will of the people?
You'd think this would be an avenue of inquiry for some enterprising journalist looking to make a name for himself or herself . . .
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)the top 10%. They most usually try to bury that kind of information.
onenote
(42,715 posts)Two. Just two.
How many vacancies are there for which no one has been nominated? Seven, and some of them date back to 2013 and at least one goes back to 2010.
Unless the President starts making nominations to fill these vacancies, its hard to complain about their not being confirmed.
KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)Despite the obvious GOP obstruction.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)The President can't get a nominee to a hearing without blue slips from each Senator in the nominee's home state. When you're talking about a nominee from Kansas, or Texas, or Florida, you can just about forget it. Without a hearing and a committee vote, no nominee gets consideration by the whole Senate. Obama could nominate the second coming of Felix Frankfurter, Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr. and Jr.), Robert Jackson and Thurgood Marshall, and not a one of them would even get to the Judiciary Committee for a hearing.
onenote
(42,715 posts)Michigan is in the Sixth Circuit and has two Democratic senators
Minnesota is in the Eighth Circuit and has two Democratic senators.
Those should be taken care of asap.
Rex
(65,616 posts)It is one main reason the GOP sucks eggs so bad!
pansypoo53219
(20,981 posts)yeah. obama just isn't being NICE ENOUGH.
Rex
(65,616 posts)and the GOP burns us everyfuckingtime!
I am SICK of our party being nice to the GOP...