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Senate confirms Judge Thapar to 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Moot said:
Not to the extent that it happened under Obama.
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So where is your chart showing the numbers for each president?
 
TurtleDude said:
why don't you tell me what you think?
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I would imagine the Republicans did not allow Obama's nominee for it to even get a hearing as they did with an unprecedented number of his nominees.
 
Moot said:
Sure, it used to be...before Republicans started blocking all of Obama's picks for circuit court judges. Sen. Reid even had to change the senate rules so they could get confirmed.
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Moot, one name defines the breakdown of the judicial nomination process. One name, a good man whose name was slandered by a sitting US Senator, that's where the poison started.

Bork
 
Renae said:
Moot, one name defines the breakdown of the judicial nomination process. One name, a good man whose name was slandered by a sitting US Senator, that's where the poison started. Bork
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Bork was unqualified was the problem. Both parties happily dug in after that. I have always thought the cloture rule requiring 60 votes a poor Senate procedure.
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
I would imagine the Republicans did not allow Obama's nominee for it to even get a hearing as they did with an unprecedented number of his nominees.
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good, we don't need SJWs on any courts
 
JamesBY said:
Bork was unqualified was the problem. Both parties happily dug in after that. I have always thought the cloture rule requiring 60 votes a poor Senate procedure.
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That's one of the most ignorant or stupid things I have ever read. Bork was the sterling professor of constitutional law at Yale. The most prestigious academic position at the hands down best law school in the worldd
 
TurtleDude said:
good, we don't need SJWs on any courts
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Oh OK, so wait a second. In the OP you take a dig at Democrats because they didn't vote for this guy because he doesn't fit their ideology despite being otherwise qualified. However, if Republicans block a nomination that doesn't fit their ideology despite being otherwise qualified, thats OK. Got it. ;)
 
SouthernDemocrat said:
Oh OK, so wait a second. In the OP you take a dig at Democrats because they didn't vote for this guy because he doesn't fit their ideology despite being otherwise qualified. However, if Republicans block a nomination that doesn't fit their ideology despite being otherwise qualified, thats OK. Got it. ;)
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yeah its called paybacks. the problem is, the democrats started this nonsense
 
Lutherf said:
It's sad that absolutely everything is about party these days.

Political operatives shop for a favorable Circuit judge to issue an injunction of an order the opposition party wrote up. The courts seem to twist their rulings to fit a party platform rather than the law. The intelligence community has become a political tool. The IRS is a political tool. The Obama DoJ was a political entity more than it was a law enforcement entity. Commerce, agriculture, education and energy push policy based on party rather than actual results and the media has also been turned.

We are in dire, dire straits in this nation and people need to start waking up to the fact that "bipartisan" has become a serious problem. We're now dealing with either a Democrat or a Republican government. There is no longer an American government.
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Sadly, that is the way I see it too. Everything is all about political party, nothing about America as a whole.
 
Lutherf said:
It's sad that absolutely everything is about party these days.

Political operatives shop for a favorable Circuit judge to issue an injunction of an order the opposition party wrote up. The courts seem to twist their rulings to fit a party platform rather than the law. The intelligence community has become a political tool. The IRS is a political tool. The Obama DoJ was a political entity more than it was a law enforcement entity. Commerce, agriculture, education and energy push policy based on party rather than actual results and the media has also been turned.

We are in dire, dire straits in this nation and people need to start waking up to the fact that "bipartisan" has become a serious problem. We're now dealing with either a Democrat or a Republican government. There is no longer an American government.
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Which is precisely why we have a President Trump. Neither partisan nor ideologue nor insider, he was our best shot at breaking the iron grip of the permanent political class and the status quo and putting government back in the hands of the people. I have been so amazed at how well he has stood up under the 24/7 frontal assault launched by the Democrats and Trump haters aided and abetted by their surrogate media. He may eventually crumble, and that will be that. But I think there will then be no chance in our lifetime for any significant reform anywhere.

But he and we tried.
 
Moot said:
Sure, it used to be...before Republicans started blocking all of Obama's picks for circuit court judges. Sen. Reid even had to change the senate rules so they could get confirmed.
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Well, now the republicans are in charge, so all those "resistence" and changing of the rules just helped them and didn't do anything for you.
 
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