Dick Durbin To GOP: Our Turn To Confirm Judicial Nominees Without Your Consent

[RussBLib]

Source: Huffington Post

“Republicans chose to abandon this senatorial courtesy,” the Judiciary Committee chair said of advancing a Biden appeals court pick without blue slips.

The Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday kicked off the first nominations hearing of the year with a message for Republicans: We’re moving forward with one of President Joe Biden’s court picks without your consent, and it’s because you did this to us.

It used to be a Senate tradition that, in the name of collegiality, the Judiciary Committee would not advance a judicial nominee until both senators from that nominee’s home state turned in a blue piece of paper signaling they were on board with doing so. But Republicans ignored that tradition for appeals court nominees when Donald Trump was president and when the GOP controlled the Senate — 18 times, to be exact — which resulted in 17 of those nominees sailing through the committee and to confirmation over Democratic objections.

(TN GOP Senator) Blackburn also voted to confirm those nominees over the objections of home-state Democratic senators who argued they had not been meaningfully consulted by the White House on their nominations.


Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dick-durbin-biden-judicial-nominees-blue-slips_n_61df1cc6e4b0a2670288219f

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Didn't see this in LBN, but I think it deserves the higher profile than just GD. Those stories can fly by so fast it is easy to miss them.

It's about time the Dems started dishing GOP shit back in their faces. Let the hypocrites whine.

[The Mouth]

1. And we need to get the postal board nominees in to get rid of DeJoy! NOW!!!!

[JustAnotherGen]

2. Good on Senator Durbin

Good for the goose, good for the gander.

[LenaBaby61]

3. I hope Durbin follows through with this, but I just don't think Dems will do that unfortunately.

[andym]

4. Here's where having Manchin and Simena caucus with Democrats pays dividends

these appointments require and are getting their support as their votes are often needed for confirmation.
It's better than nothing, and there is a great need to rebalance the courts after McConnell and Trump packed them with GOPers.

[RussBLib]

5. indeed

helluva tightrope we are walking