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Nationsl Review Bench Memo Thomas Jipping Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia died unexpectedly in February 2016, and President Barack Obama nominated Judge Merrick Garland to that vacancy on March 16, 2016. The Left had a single mantra for the Senate: Do your job. Specifically, they demanded that the confirmation process move forward, starting with a Judiciary Committee hearing. They have changed their tune. There’s no need to cover here all the reasons why the unique circumstances in 2016 justified allowing the next president to fill the Scalia vacancy. Republicans in 2016 were merely following Joe Biden’s advice. In 1992, when he chaired the Judiciary Committee, he recommended that the Senate not consider a Supreme Court nominee in the middle of a divisive presidential campaign. In 2016, Democrats demanded that the Judiciary Committee hold a confirmation hearing on a Democratic nominee despite those unique circumstances. Today, Democrats object to the Judiciary Committee holding confirmation hearings even though those circumstances do not exist. Keep in mind that 120 positions on life-tenured federal courts across the country remain vacant. In fact, we are in the longest sustained period of triple-digit judicial vacancies in 25 years. Today’s situation is far less defensible, however. The high number of vacancies in the early 1990s was caused by Congress creating dozens of new judgeships. High vacancies today result simply from Democratic obstruction. But despite these high current vacancies, Democrats are trying to prevent the Judiciary Committee from holding the hearings that, only two years ago, they said defined what it meant to “do your job.” The committee was scheduled to hold regular confirmation hearings on September 26 and October 10 for nominees to the U.S. Court of Appeals and U.S. District Court. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.), the committee’s top Democrat, first agreed to that schedule but then asked for multiple postponements. She then agreed to hold hearings on October 10, 17, and 24. Now, Judiciary Committee Democrats are demanding that these hearings be put off yet again. Their latest “reason” is that the full Senate is not in regular session until after the election. Yet Feinstein agreed to these October hearings knowing that the Senate would likely be in recess for at least some of this period. This is not the first time that Democrats have done this. The previous complaint was that Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) sometimes includes more than one appeals-court nominee in a single hearing. They had to be reminded that chairmen of both parties, under presidents of both parties, have held more than 50 hearings with multiple appeals-court nominees. Chairmen Biden and Orrin Hatch (R., Utah), for example, held more than a dozen such hearings for President Bill Clinton’s appeals court nominees while Feinstein served on the committee. There’s no record that she had any objection to doing for Democratic nominees what she objects to doing for Republican nominees today. With vacancies so high, Judiciary Committee Democrats should stop playing games, take their own advice, and do their job. Link Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | ||
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Can the judiciary committee simply meet without the Dem's present? Can these confirmation hearings proceed even if the Dem's refuse to show up and do their jobs? ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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yes The 17 Oct 2018 hearing was held w/o DEMs. (and not many REPs) video here: https://www.judiciary.senate.g.../17/2018/nominations | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
Sen. Kennedy does some tough questioning. Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
It wasn't a "truce", or unfair in any way. As Grassley pointed out in his letter to Feinstein, Feinstein (the top Dem on the Judiciary Committee) agreed to the changes in dates - and she was certainly aware of the Dems' desire for a recess at the time. | |||
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Seems to me, problem solved. Have the hearings and vote these folks out of committee and on to the senate. If the Dem's want to continue with their tantrum, let them. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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| I believe in the principle of Due Process |
Senate Judiciary Committee Keeps Humming Along National Review Ed Whelan Despite the Senate’s recess, Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley and his stalwart staff are keeping his committee very busy in reviewing and processing President Trump’s judicial nominees. On Wednesday, the committee held a hearing on the nomination of Allison Jones Rushing to a Fourth Circuit seat in North Carolina and on five district-court nominations. Next Wednesday, it intends to hold a hearing on two Ninth Circuit nominations—Eric Miller (in Washington) and Bridget Bade (in Arizona) and one district-court nomination. The committee aims to report these nominations to the Senate floor by late November. On Wednesday, November 14, the committee intends to hold a hearing on Third Circuit/New Jersey nominee Paul Matey and four district-court nominees. The committee aims to report these nominations to the Senate floor in early December. Already pending on the Senate floor are one appellate nomination (Jonathan Kobes, CA8/South Dakota) and 31 district-court nominations. Two other appellate nominees—Eric Murphy and Chad Readler, each to a CA6 seat in Ohio—are awaiting their committee votes, as are nine district-court nominees. So that’s a total of seven appellate nominees and 50 district-court nominees who should be ready for a Senate floor vote in December. If these nominees are all confirmed, that will take President Trump’s two-year total to 36 federal appellate judges and 104 federal district judges—plus, of course, Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh. By way of comparison: President Obama appointed 16 federal appellate judges and 44 federal district judges—plus Justice Sotomayor and Justice Kagan—during his first two years. Link Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me. When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown | |||
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