Exclusive: Grassley urges Trump to reconsider controversial judicial picks

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Washington (CNN)Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley issued a rare rebuke Tuesday of two of President Donald Trump's most controversial judicial nominees, urging the White House to rethink the picks.

Grassley told CNN that he is advising the White House to "reconsider" the nomination of Jeff Mateer, who was selected to become a federal judge in Texas. He said the White House "should not proceed" on the nomination of Brett Talley, whom Trump picked to become a federal judge in Alabama.

"I've advised the White House they ought to reconsider," Grassley said as he left a Judiciary Committee hearing. "I would advise the White House not to proceed."

Grassley's comments amount to an unusual brake on Trump's bid to fill the judiciary with young conservative voices. The Senate has moved at an unprecedented pace this year to seat federal judges but controversy has surrounded the Mateer and Talley nominations.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/12/politics/trump-judicial-picks/index.html

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1. geez stupid, just get your fellow repubs to vote NO on them. nt

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3. imagine how incompetent these appointees have to be if they made grassley shake his head?

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2. These judges were rated as unqualified by the ABA

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4. Is the one with no experience among those

being criticized?

And who trusts Grassley?

[Renew Deal]

5. Will Grassley vote against them?

Did Grassley put Jeff Mateer and Taley through committee?

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6. Fuck Chuck's bogus "good Retrumplican" bullshit routine

Here's the only response to ANYONE with an "R" after their name.

"Go fuck yourself sideways with a First Edition hard cover copy of Atlas Shrugged you worthless piece of amphibian Shit"!!

From Senator to Dogcatcher... that's the only response that currently makes sense in response to ANY Retrumplican

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7. Talley has already been approved by Grassley's committee

The next step for Talley's nomination for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench is a vote of the full Senate. I wonder why Grassley didn't stop Talley's nomination in the committee he serves as chairman? Or has he suddenly decided that every presidential nomination for the judiciary deserves to be voted on by the full Senate? That hasn't always been his position.