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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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 -
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@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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Judge Kallon, who was supported by both Senators when nominated as a district judge just a few years earlier, came from a large defense firm & was held in high regard throughout the community as both lawyer & judge. The refusal to advance him was inexplicable.
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