MCCONNELL URGED TO BYPASS DEMS, CONFIRM JUDGES, 30 hours for every nominee. They’re not
actually talking about the nominee Rule changes
could quash stalling tactics blocking 152 nominees, by Greg Corombos, 8/16/18,
WND.
While conservatives and
liberals prepare for the U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge
Brett Kavanaugh, a coalition of conservative legal voices are pleading with
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to brush aside stalling tactics from Democrats
and confirm a major backlog of judicial nominees before Kavanaugh’s hearings
next month.
Led by Rob Henneke of
the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the coalition sent a letter urging
McConnell to change the rules if necessary to allow up or down votes in 152
district and appellate court nominees.
“The quality of the
pending nominees and confirmed judges is outstanding. The confirmation of
constitutionalist judges to these lifetime appointments will impact our nation
for decades to come and will be the lasting legacy of this period in history,”
states the letter.
Henneke says the Senate
needs to buckle down and get the nominees across the finish line. “There is a
backlog. It is growing every day, and it’s presenting a problem as far as the
judiciary being able to get it’s job done,” said Henneke.
The nominees have all
had confirmation hearings and committee votes, but Democrats are using Senate
rules to grind the confirmation process to a halt. Henneke says McConnell must
be willing to make rule changes, starting with the 30-hour rule to debate each
nominee.
“The Democrats are
claiming that. There’s nobody on the Senate floor. They’re just forcing that
clock to run for each and every single nominee to slow down the process,” said
Henneke, who has two ideas to trump the Democrats’ strategy.
“One is to shorten the
period of time from 30 hours to a much more reasonable period of time and then
to actually require there to be debate or discussion about a particular nominee
or that time period would be waived or would expire,” said Henneke.
McConnell cancelled some
of the August recess. Lawmakers returned to Washington Wednesday and plan to
tackle two nominations this week. Henneke says they need to do better. He wants
to see Republicans willing to put in the long hours to “clear the deck” of
these stalled nominations.
“The Senate needs to put
more hours into this process. We would encourage the Senate to be working 24/7
to clear the deck and to confirm all of the pending nominees. That may require
later hours and more days for the Senate to be in session,” said Henneke, who
says McConnell needs to stop considering rule changes and just implement them.
“The threats need to
turn into action and we need our Senate leadership and Leader McConnell to
impose what he can do to get the job done,” said Henneke.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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