No matter what else may be achieved during the Presidency of Donald Trump, the most long-lasting could be the restoration of rational, constitutional balance in the judiciary.
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We have seen deliberate, politically-motivated obstruction of common-sense measures by far-left/liberal clowns on the courts.
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Trump did well to get Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch approved, but further down the food-chain, the Media-Democrat Party is thwarting progress.
Hence this appeal from AFA, which I am pleased to send you.
President Trump was elected to carry out the agenda of Americans. Appointing constitutionally conservative judges is a significant part of this agenda, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is allowing Democrats to obstruct the judicial nomination process.
Tell Sen. McConnell to “get to work” or “”step down.”
Did you know President Donald Trump has made 57 judicial nominations, but so far only 7 judges have been confirmed by the Senate? This leaves 50 of President Trump’s judicial nominees waiting to be cleared by either the Senate Judiciary Committee or to be voted on by the full Senate.
So far only 10 of the 50 pending nominees are up for a full Senate vote, but Senate Democrats are demanding there be 30 hours of debate on each nominee.
Sen. McConnell said, “If this (30-hour debate) continues, it will take us more than 11 years to confirm the remaining presidential appointments….The level of obstruction exhibited by Senate Democrats on these nominees is simply breathtaking….And our colleagues (Democrats) need to stop this immediately – for the sake of our country.”
Sen. Majority Leader McConnell blames Senate Democrats for the problem but refuses to employ the solution which is to waive the 30-hour debate rule. Sen. McConnell could lower the set amount of time to debate each nominee, but he remains entrenched in allowing Senate Democrats to thwart the nomination of President Trump’s judges.
Tell Sen. McConnell to “get to work” or “step down.”
Conservatives should demand the Senate Republican majority to waive the 30-hour debate rule and end the filibuster.
Waive the 30-hour debate rule
Sen. McConnell needs to consider Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) solution to the Democratic obstruction. Sen. Johnson has proposed to use the precedent established by Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) in 2013 to end the 30-hour debate rule by a simple majority vote.
As reported in The Hill, Sen. Johnson said: “Change the rules of the Senate to limit debate on sub-Cabinet and lower-court nominees to two hours on the Senate floor. Use Senate committees to vet nominees and report on them to the full Senate, where leadership can assign appropriate members to make the case for or against a nominee in the allotted two hours. Then vote.”
The Republican Senate majority have within their reach the legitimate use of power to put an end to this Democratic obstruction. Yet these Republicans have refused to lift a finger to end this madness.
End Democratic Filibuster
The U.S. Senate has a 52 Republican majority that could get a conservative agenda through the Senate if they ended the Democratic filibuster, but 29 of these Republican senators, along with 32 Democrats, have declared their support for Sen. McConnell to keep the filibuster.
Democrats are killing conservative legislation using the filibuster, and ending the filibuster requires 60 votes. Unless Sen. McConnell leads the Senate Republican majority to waive the filibuster rule and change to majority vote, then it’s impossible to end the Democratic obstruction. There’s little chance Democrats will advance a conservative agenda.
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) was correct when he said Democrats have “changed the game” when they did away with the filibuster to confirm President Obama’s federal judges. Sen. Shelby also correctly noted that the filibuster is “not the law. It’s not the statute. It’s not the Constitution.” Also, Republicans changed Senate precedent to approve Judge Neil Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Other Senators opposing Sen. McConnell on the filibuster are: Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL), Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT), and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). There are also 19 other Republican Senators who have refused to go on record to keep the filibuster. On the House side, U.S. Representative Trent Franks (R-AZ) recently said, “It is time for America to abolish the 60-vote Senate rule” to end the filibuster and vote by simple majority.
Unless Sen. McConnell and other Republicans wave Senate rules to establish a new precedent to end the Democratic obstruction and confirm President Trump’s judicial nominees, defund sanctuary cities, defund Planned Parenthood, and pass Kate’s Law, etc., then the net effect will be a continuation of the Obama Administration under a Republican majority in the House and Senate.
Tell your senators to “get to work” or call on Sen. McConnell to “step down.”
Tim Wildmon, President
American Family Association
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Swen Satler 17:13 on August 9, 2019 Permalink |
She is as ugly to look at as her foul mouth is to lsten to.
Too many people have still to get it, that BLM is a racist hate-group.
Hopefully, what happened at Louisville will wake some of them up.
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Nina Cisando 17:34 on August 9, 2019 Permalink |
She is the most in-your-face offensive but we could say that her clear lack of education is sort of an excuse for that.
The mayor is in a different category, a position of responsibility and so his dumb statements make him worse than her.
A few noisy conservatives serenading him late at night from outside his house might make him rethink his ideas on what the constitution means when it talks about free speech.
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Jacko 18:15 on August 9, 2019 Permalink |
God, wot a honker!
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Dion Carre 19:12 on August 9, 2019 Permalink |
BLM are no better than those Black Panther gangs that the Obama administration went out of its way to be nice to. You wrote about Eric Holder’s racism a while back.
Still and all, you would think they could find a more presentable spokesthing!
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Lorne Marzio 19:40 on August 9, 2019 Permalink |
There’s another abusive black woman just been in the news, using racist language (‘coon’) to insult a black man because of his support for President Trump.
https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/08/daniel-cameron-kentucky-ag
Believe it or not, the woman is Dawn Elliot, who is a lawyer and stood for election as a judge.
What kind of fair verdicts would a judge like her deliver?
The ‘American’ left are a lot more racist than the patriotic conservative right.
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Wallace Kirkman 21:36 on August 9, 2019 Permalink |
No truer words, Lorne.
The United States is being torn apart by the anti-Trump media, who jump through any hoop their Democrat comrades tell them to, like we saw a few days ago, when the New York Times used an honest headline on its front page then changed it completely when the left gave them hell.
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