Trump
Just Hit Feinstein and Harris With Payback; And They’re ANGRY, By Steve Straub,
10/12/18. The Federalist Papers.
After
the Kavanaugh debacle President Trump has decided to buck tradition and gave California Senators
Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris a taste of their own medicine, and they’re
PISSED:
President Trump is plowing ahead
to fill three vacancies on the liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, brushing
aside Democratic resistance to nominate conservative judges.
Presidents traditionally work
with senators from judicial nominees’ home state — in this case, California — to put forward judicial picks.
They often seek what’s known as a “blue slip,” or an opinion from those
senators.
But in a snub to California
Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, the White House announced
Wednesday that Trump had nominated Patrick Bumatay, Daniel Collins and Kenneth
Kiyul Lee (all from the Golden State, and reportedly all members of the
conservative Federalist Society) to the influential circuit. The court, with a
sprawling purview representing nine Western states, has long been a thorn in
the side of the Trump White House, with rulings against the travel ban and
limits on funding to “sanctuary cities.”
GOP critics have branded the
court the “Nutty 9th,” in part because many of its rulings have been overturned
by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Dianne
Feinstein and Kamala Harris did not react well to the news that Trump is now
ignoring them completely: Feinstein and Harris reacted
angrily to the news of the latest appointments. Feinstein said in a statement
that she had been prepared to accept a reported White House proposal of three
other judges.
She said she opposed both Collins
and Lee — who she said had failed to disclose his “controversial writings” on
voting rights and affirmative action.
“I repeatedly told the White
House I wanted to reach an agreement on a package of 9th Circuit nominees, but
last night the White House moved forward without consulting me, picking
controversial candidates from its initial list and another individual with no
judicial experience who had not previously been suggested,” she said in a
statement.
“Instead of working with
our office to identify consensus nominees for the 9th Circuit, the White
House continues to try to pack the courts with partisan judges who will blindly
support the president’s agenda, instead of acting as an independent check on
this administration,” Harris spokeswoman Lily Adams told The Sacramento Bee.
Well,
well, well, looks like trying to destroy an honorable man for political reasons
now has consequences.
Trump
does not fold like Republicans of the past and seems to have transplanted some
spine into GOP leaders’ backs.
Hardball
works both ways.
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Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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