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There is no situation where the democrats will vote
for a someone that believes in Constitutional law.
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Who Knew?
'We were nice to them and voted for their candidates. Why are they voting against ours?? Truly it must be rocket science of some kind that befuddles them on so many occasions when democrats tell Republicans to pound sand.
Really, it's a disgraces to Republicans principles that they have to be this naïve or just plain stupid to allow the democrats any kind free reign without a vicious battle to the end. The democrats have always been that way and they are proving again that they still are.
The Kavanuagh hearings? If it weren't televised no one would have believed that such a thing could happened in America. But it did and will happen again only worse when Ruthie become room temperature. Imagine the court being dominated by people that believe the Constitution is a viable document and not by people that are totally dominated by socialsit liberal ideology.
Remember ''The lion of The Senate'' Ted Kennedy's absolute vicious attacks on the supreme court nominees and their families, and in one case driving them from the room in tears?
Welcome to the real world of progressive socialist liberal democrat ideology of seek and destory.
Democrats Vote Against Trump’s Judicial Nominees Far More Than Republicans Did Against Obama’s
Whatever those numbers mean on their own, the fact is that Trump’s judicial nominees are being treated very differently than those of previous presidents.
Those 91 judges, for example, have received a total of 1,824 votes against their confirmation in 782 days. When Barack Obama was president, it took 2,123 days to rack up this many negative votes, and he had to appoint 282 judges to do it.
Trump’s 91 judges have received more negative confirmation votes than the 2,653 judges confirmed to the same courts during the entire 20th century combined.
Let’s look at this another way. Obama appointed 16 judges to the U.S. Court of Appeals during his first two years, when his own party controlled the Senate. Each of those nominees had a confirmation vote, and only two also had a separate vote to invoke cloture, or end debate.
With 41 Republicans in the Senate, that’s a total of 738 opportunities on the Senate floor for a Republican to vote for an Obama nominee. Republicans took 556 of those opportunities, or 75 percent.
Trump had appointed 16 judges to the U.S. Court of Appeals by May 2018, when his own party controlled the Senate. Each of those nominees had a confirmation, and all 16 also had a separate cloture vote.
With 48 Democrats in the Senate in 2017 and 49 in 2018, that’s a total of 1,544 opportunities for a Democrat to vote for a Trump nominee. Democrats took 259 of those opportunities, or 17 percent. Not even close.
You might think that, well, Obama’s nominees must have been more qualified than Trump’s. Not according to the American Bar Association. Nine of each president’s nominees received a unanimous well qualified rating, but five other Trump nominees received at least a majority well qualified rating, compared to just one Obama nominee.
Since several studies (here, here, here, and here) have found that the ABA is systematically biased against Republican nominees, that really puts Trump’s nominees ahead.
Shifting from the votes that nominees receive to the votes that senators cast, the average Democrat has voted against 36 of the 91 judges Trump has appointed so far. This compares to the average Republican voting against six of the first 91 judges Obama appointed.
No matter how you slice or dice it, no matter what measure or standard you use, the judicial confirmation process today is radically different than it was just a few years ago.
Originally published by National Review.
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