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FBaggins

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10. It isn't that they're asleep at the wheel

Reply to kentuck (Reply #7)

Tue Sep 17, 2019, 10:47 AM

Sep 2019

It's that some of the parliamentary processes that we've been using gum up the confirmation process for all appointments...

... When faced with a decision to make someone permanent (who might be gone in a bit over a year if/when they lose the election) or another judge who will serve for life? They've been pushing through the judges.

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