ON BLUE SLIPS, GRASSLEY PULLS THE TRIGGER (vid in linked article)

Published: November 17, 2017, 3:49 pm

ON BLUE SLIPS, GRASSLEY PULLS THE TRIGGER

"Yesterday was a bad day for Al Franken. In the morning Leeann Tweeden posted the photograph of the sexual assault committed by Franken on her along with the compelling first-person account of her mistreatment by Franken. That was a shot heard round the world. Then in the afternoon Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley announced that he would not let Franken’s withheld blue slip block the nomination of Minnesota Supreme Court Justice David Stras to the Eighth Circuit or let Senator Kennedy’s withheld blue slip block the nomination of Kyle Duncan to the Fifth Circuit. ...."

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/11/on-blue-slips-grassley-pulls-the-trigger.php741

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JAP69 - Nov 17, 2017, 7:45 pm

Yep,
The Senate needs to clamp down on this 30 hour floor debate time also. As I understand it a Senator from the minority side are allowed two speeches with a 1 hour time limit for both. Plus they need to be a continuous debate during those 30 hours meaning the Democrats will need to come up with 30 Senators to fill that debate time. If they do not do so a vote on the nominee can be called. In some cases the debate time can be cut to 2 hours and the nominee voted on.
I watch c-span and the Senate floor just sits idle many hours during this debate time.

konane - Nov 17, 2017, 8:02 pm

Thanks JAP. The particular candidate Franken was blocking is imminently qualified from all I've read. I'll bet those activist judges on the bench now were not stalled at all.

ON BLUE SLIPS, GRASSLEY PULLS THE TRIGGER (vid in linked article)

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