During the Obama administration, @SenateGOP blocked 18 judicial nominees through blue slips, including six circuit court nominees. @ChuckGrassley, in a new low, will now disregard the tradition to help Trump take over the federal bench. This is shameful.http://politi.co/2yOgP7a
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Rebecca Haywood would have been the first African-American woman on the 3rd Circuit.
@SenToomey refused to return his blue slip and blocked her nomination.Show this thread -
Lisabeth Hughes would have been the first woman from Kentucky on the 6th Circuit.
@SenateMajLdr refused to return his blue slip and blocked her nomination.Show this thread -
Abdul Kallon would have been the first African American from Alabama on the 11th Circuit. Jeff Sessions and
@SenShelby refused to return their blue slips, blocking his nomination.Show this thread -
Myra Selby would have been the first African American and first woman from Indiana on the 7th Circuit.
@SenDanCoats refused to return his blue slip and blocked her nomination.Show this thread -
Make no mistake:
@ChuckGrassley’s irresponsible hypocrisy on blue slips is just the latest example of his complicity in rubber stamping@realDonaldTrump’s judicial nominees.Show this thread
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Not only have GOP gutted voters veto via their elected US senator over their own home state bench federal judges aka Blue Slip, GOP previously gutted body wide filibuster over judicial appointments, dropping votes needed from 60% to 51%. All concensus safe guards are now gutted.
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