Cotton threatens to stall US attorney nominees from Democratic states

[DonViejo]

Source: CNN



By Jeremy Herb and Ted Barrett, CNN
Published 11:52 AM EDT, Fri April 16, 2021

(CNN) — Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas is threatening to stall the nominations of US attorneys from states represented by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee in retribution for the committee’s Democrats moving forward on a Justice Department nominee over GOP objections.

Cotton said on the Senate floor Thursday during debate on the nomination of Vanita Gupta to be associate attorney general that he would “refuse consent or time agreements for the nomination of any US attorney from any state represented by a Democrat on the Judiciary Committee.”

Such a move would slow down the Senate and make it harder to confirm nominees to US attorney posts, which are typically noncontroversial.

Cotton’s threat stems from a dispute in the committee last month over the vote on Gupta’s nomination, which deadlocked 11-11 on a party-line vote.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/16/politics/tom-cotton-nominees-vanita-gupta/index.html

[pandr32]

3. Agreed

[DENVERPOPS]

13. My first thought

was, they can sure hand it out, but they sure can't take it............

Once again, if a Republican opens their mouth it is one of three things that will spew out of their mouths

1) a flagrant lie

2) pure hypocrisy

3) 180 degrees from the truth or any reality.........

[cstanleytech]

25. "Do repubs do anything good?" Well, they do eventually die so does that count?

[Trueblue1968]

26. REMOVE COTTON FROM ALL COMMITTEES. ..... i hate him

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Seems to me Mitch didn't honor blue slips in Washington state at some point

Can't see why we can't play the same game. Abuse the minority! They did it to us.

[underpants]

4. Yep. Mitch did way other blue slips

I can’t remember who that was for but I do remember it happening

[underpants]

5. If we hadn't swept Georgia this would be the norm for Biden's cabinet

They would have blocked all kinds of nominees.

Thank you Trump you pathetic loser.

[PortTack]

6. Moving around the obstructionists, now SOP...they will be confirmed....

[bdamomma]

7. maybe continuous

calls to Tom Cotton's office should be initiated. What a jerk. Traitors and obstruction is all they are known for.

[calimary]

10. YES. DO IT.

And if you don't live in his state (Arkansas), do you have relatives/friends/roommates/former roommates or other local connection to some place in Arkansas? Have you vacationed there? Driven through there - and stopped to get gas or a snack? That means you've spent money in Arkansas and helped the economy there.

SO THAT MEANS YOU CAN RIGHTFULLY AND HONESTLY ARGUE THAT YOU HAVE A PERSONAL STAKE IN THIS.


As a member of Indivisible, I am well aware that the focus is always on "call YOUR OWN reps/Senators." But there are times that are urgent enough to expand that perimeter, seems to me. Times like THIS. Times like NOW.

[calimary]

9. And who the hell does he think he is???

[Maeve]

11. Sounds like someone needs a nap...or a time-out

That's how we always dealt with temper tantrums

[smb]

12. Or A Diaper Change nt

[bdamomma]

15. don't

they all need a diaper change??? whiny jerks.

There's a list of them:

Gym Jordan
Cruz
Hawley
Tuberville
Lee
Ron Johnson
Rand Paul
McConnell
Cornyn

of course there are more

[bdamomma]

18. there is

a list of them.

[bdamomma]

20. Normal

that doesn't exist in GQP. They are so blatant like in your face and they do not care.

[rickyhall]

14. BipartisanSHIT

[ancianita]

21. Biden's got NINE nominees waiting confirmation. Republicans need to be investigated for by

Senate Ethics for refusal to do their job.

[paleotn]

22. Sounds like it's time for the stick instead of the bipartisan carrot.

Would you like an ethics committee investigation or maybe even the FBI, Senator Cotton? And what exactly did you know about the Jan 6th insurrection before it happened? Those folks are set up for serious jail time. Want to join them?

[NoMoreRepugs]

23. Funny how WIMPS issue the biggest threats.

[hibbing]

24. But it's our duty to reach across the aisle right? n/t

[LakeArenal]

29. There should be a law: Obstruction of government process.

If you don’t do your job get out.

[bluestarone]

30. We are dealing with a whole new breed of congress people

Heaven help us!!

[monkeyman1]

31. cotton & GQP KNOW THEY WILL BE COMING AFTER THEM !! -DUH !!!