I pushed back on this yesterday, but that Lucy Koh was blocked in 2016 gives me pause. Maybe Grassley, as part of a *general* policy not to allow blue-slip obstruction, should work out deals to get liberal nominees appointed in blue states where they were unreasonably blocked b4.
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This would be a horrible deal.
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I'm assuming Grassley plans to override past Senate precedent and generally nuke the ability of senators to veto nominees via blue-slip process. He might feel freer to do that in 95% of cases if he makes a few exceptions to deal w/ past obstruction.
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I think if you are going to nuke blue slips you fill every seat possible with a conservative because the Democrats won't have any barriers when they have power.
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Oh, sure. I'm just considering that if I were Grassley, on the one hand I'd nuke any blue-slip veto that didn't reflect any substantive concern about the nominee, but on the other I'd listen to a colleague's complaint that a stellar nominee was unfairly delayed in 2016.
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I know it is a different state but they would have to throw in Bounds as well.
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I guess once you start making exceptions, it gets dicey. Maybe that's why liberals plead to replace liberal lion Reinhardt with another liberal. I don't get that logic. Reinhardt could have retired in 2015, at age 84, and have been replaced by a liberal. He chose not to.
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