Tim Scott just stopped Thomas Farr's nomination in it's tracks!

[EffieBlack]

Thanks to all who called his office!

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1. Finally! A Republican senator showed gumption and principles. It took an AA...

to stop the repugs continued march towards more and more vote suppression.

[HipChick]

12. What's an AA?

[kwassa]

14. African American

[DFW]

20. If it's a Senator involved, it's a legitimate question to ask, as "AA" has a specific meaning there.

In the Senate, whenever someone mentions an "AA," they think you meant a Seantor's Administrative Assistant, which is pretty much their right hand, sort of like the equivalent of a White House Chief of Staff. If you have an urgent message for a Senator and can't get a hold of him/her, you leave it with their AA.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

24. I AM STOPPING FREEPERS IN THIER TRACKS TOO, read IT and weep:

The ultimate weapon of choice is still an FBI FISA Warrant; and everyone who replied or kicked this old OP up gets one: read ALL of this...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211491422

GOTCHA
The National Security Agency is the only government group that actually listens...
Maybe, FBI online agents are finally "listening" too...

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27. Well, this is DU where you have a limited char. count in your headline, thus AA...

is short for African American, a pretty common usage here.

[DFW]

31. I've spent time around both

And I was using the term AA referring to Senators' Adminsitrative Assistants since the 1960s, back in the days when my two roomies in college just referred to themselves as "black folks," and when my dad used to take me up to the Senate during semester breaks. There was a world before DU. I looked it up to be sure I hadn't just dreamed it.

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32. Time to update.

[DFW]

33. The U.S. Senate doesn't "update" accordng to my schedule

Probably not to the schedule of any demands from DU, either (you can always try, of course).

When Senators I know say "AA," they mean their administrative assistant.

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35. Not the Senate, your DU vocabulary.

[DFW]

36. I'll have others dictate my DU vocaulary when I feel a pressing need for it

I promise you'll be among the first to know. I'll even include my socks color and my toothpaste brand for review at the same time.

[brush]

37. OK. I'll stay off your lawn but will continue to use common abreviations in limited DU char. fields.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

25. The actual "AA" stands for "A"ctual "A"uthentication...

It was a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA competition, which allowed universities and private corporations to compete to create technology to find and identify jobs and goals of internet users, by ways they searched topics on the World Wide Web. BTW, what does F.I.S.A. mean?

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28. See post 27

[DFW]

34. I didn't know that one. I'll have to ask my brother

He does projects for DARPA

[The_REAL_Ecumenist]

22. AA or not, he's also one of the 5 fuckers who took money to QUASH the HORRIFIC

slaughter of innocent men, women and most importantly BABIES, on the behalf of the UAE & Saudi Arabia because, you see, taking as much money as they can stuff in every pocket they ever thought of having to look the other way while the creeps throwing buckets & shovelling coin of the realm grin, knowing that the "Sunday morning Christians" are only saying the things that the dim witted delusional masses want to hear, in spite of the blatant & obvious hypocrisy they seem to be proud to display....

[cynatnite]

2. I think this is the beginning of repubs starting to break with tRump...

It'll be drip drip drip, but I see this as being the first of many starting to go against tRump and will get more bold about it the more that comes out about tRump and his treason.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. I asked this question in another thread, but does anyone know if this nomination can be brought back

when the new Senate is in session?

[SCantiGOP]

4. Don't see why not

I know that it has been done before.

[Tarheel_Dem]

5. That's what I'm thinking as well. If we can keep Scott, and put pressure on Collins, Murkowski, and

some other unnamed Republican, we might prevent this one. Otherwise, I don't see how we prevent it.

[EffieBlack]

6. He can be renominated.

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. See this is what pisses me off everytime I think about those who were running around this board...

telling everyone they wouldn't be "blackmailed" into voting for the person who could've prevented the takeover of our courts. I fear we've lost the judiciary, to include the USSC, and the feeder courts for a generation. The Republicans have been very deliberate in their judicial appointments.

I heard on NPR (or somewhere) that Trump has made court packing a top priority since his election, and most (if not all) are coming directly from the Federalist Society.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. didn't Flake go back to being a jellyfish?

IIRC, there was one GOPer called away (maybe just too chicken to vote no) and Flake's stand stopped the vote, then Flake flaked. Is Scott's vote enough to stop it still?

[EffieBlack]

9. That was on the cloture vote - Scott voted yes on that, to.

Flake has stated he would vote no on Farr's confirmation and has not announced any change of position

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. thank you

Thanks also for posting that contact information in the other OP!

Too much going on for me to keep track.

[hatrack]

30. But of course, now he doesn't actually have to DO anything . . .

So this worked out quite nicely for Senator Concerned Q. Jellyfish (R-AZ).

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29. From what I understand Scott's no vote on confirmation killed it.

[UTUSN]

10. Thanks to Senator SCOTT, but question to him: Why are you a (Repuke)?

[a kennedy]

13. It's one issue....that's a good thing he denied this judge, but it's only one issue.

He’s a repub!!!!!! Don’t forget that.

[UTUSN]

16. Yip, that's my point, that racism is a distinguishing characteristic of core Repuke-ism, so why

is he a Repuke? He has to take a stand when the racism is the issue of the day, him alone (except for the occasional flake joining him) with the 50+ of his party standing against him. It's one of the Eternal questions, why is *any* member of an oppressed group a wingnut - ever?

[Polybius]

17. Because where else would he go?

He's anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage, very pro-gun, for huge corporate tax cuts, etc. We certainly don't want him with those views.

[a kennedy]

18. That's kinda what I was saying.......

thank you for stating it better then I can.

[UTUSN]

19. Thanks because I didn't know any of all of those things about him!

[a kennedy]

11. I wrote to his Senate office........

[JI7]

21. we should expect white people to reject bigots also

so the media accepts this is a case of racism so what will the black guy do ?

at the same time they can also demand white people reject them also.

[oberliner]

23. Would not have been possible without Jeff Flake

And his initial opposition.

[EffieBlack]

26. It wouldn't have been possible without ANY of the other 50 senators who opposed the nominee

My point stands.