Senate reignites blue slip war over Trump court picks

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Senate is set to escalate a long simmering fight over President Trump's judicial nominees.

Republicans are poised to confirm a pick for the influential circuit courts next week without the support of either of the nominee's home-state senators—a first for the Trump era.

Eric Miller is the first appeals judge to get a vote on the Senate floor this year, and the 31st of Trump’s presidency. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) set up an initial vote on his Ninth Circuit nomination for Monday evening.

“The judicial train is running in the committee and it will soon hit the floor,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, told radio host Hugh Hewitt.

Miller’s nomination is set to revive a feud over “blue slips,” a paper that indicates if a home-state senator supports a nomination.

Though the Senate confirmed several appeals judges who were missing one blue slip last year, Miller would be the first circuit court nominee to be confirmed without getting a blue slip from either senator.

Democrats argue Republicans are trying to defang the minority by moving nominees even if they don’t have the support of a home-state senator.

Spokespeople for Sens. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), a member of Democratic leadership, and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), confirmed to The Hill on Friday that they did not return a blue slip on Miller’s nomination.

Murray first announced late last year that she wouldn’t return her blue slip for Miller, arguing that Republicans were trying to place “extreme conservatives" on the court.

"This needs to end. So I am not going to be complicit in this latest rushed process to load the courts with Trump nominees in the lame duck session and I will not be returning the blue slip that signals my approval of this process," Murray said in a statement at the time.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/431232-senate-reignites-blue-slip-war-over-trump-court-picks

And these peckerwoods love to scream state's rights.

[manor321]

1. There's no war. The Republicans won. They will put who they want on the court.

This is why elections matter. "Blue slip" is not in the Constitution.

Thanks once again goes to Nader, Stein, Sarandon and Jenner.

[Cane4Dems]

2. exactly

also add to that list *entitled democrats, who live such a privileged life that they wasted their votes on 3rd party candidates or didn't vote as a protest

It infuriates me that we lost an election due these idiots

Now all we can do is continue to mobilize and show up for not only presidential elections and also other years as well