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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

    Sure have had this habit for a long time.

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

    May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'BRIAN TYLER COHEN REMOVED FROM ALL COMMITTEES Psst... we updated your mask. Remember to put it over your nose this time.'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited February 2021

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited February 2021

    Biden Tosses Out Trump's Last-Minute Judicial Nominations
    The newly installed president prefers to fill those lifetime federal judgeships with his own picks, thank you very much.


    By Jennifer Bendery (Huffington Post)


    Late Thursday, with little fanfare, President Joe Biden withdrew 32 nominations from the Senate that former President Donald Trump put forward in his final days in office.
    There were all kinds of nominations in the mix. One nominee was up for inspector general for the Federal Communications Commission. A couple of nominees were up for being ambassadors to the Bahamas and Singapore. Judy Shelton was Trump's pick to take now-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's seat on the Federal Reserve.
    And two nominees were for lifetime federal judgeships, which Trump may have been hoping could slip through to confirmation. Biden just made it clear that's not happening.
    It's pretty routine for an incoming president to toss out a defeated president's last-minute nominations. But the fact that Biden sent back both of Trump's judicial picks is a sign that he isn't ceding any ground when it comes to filling lifetime federal court seats ― not after Trump and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) spent the last four years focused on confirming more than 230 mostly young, male, white, right-wing judges.
    One of Trump's court picks may have even passed the Senate with strong support. His appeals court nominee, Raúl Arias-Marxuach, was overwhelmingly confirmed by the Senate in May 2019 when he was up for a U.S. district court seat, by a vote of 93 to 2. But Biden is sending the message that he will be picking his own judicial nominees going forward, thank you very much.
    Trump's other last-minute nominee to a lifetime court seat, Edmund LaCour, Jr., likely never stood a chance of advancing under the Biden administration. LaCour, who was up for a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, has a record of being hostile to voting rights, abortion rights, environmental protection and gun safety.
    Biden hasn't announced any of his judicial nominees yet. But behind the scenes, his White House team has signaled they aren't wasting any time lining up court picks.
    White House counsel Dana Remus wrote to Democratic senators in December urging them to send over recommendations for district court judges "as soon as possible," and gave a hard deadline of Jan. 19. Biden's team has also indicated they won't wait for the American Bar Association to evaluate his court picks before formally nominating them, another sign that they're ready to move quickly with nominations.
    Biden himself knows the judicial nomination process extremely well, as a former longtime chairman and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. That's in addition to being vice president for eight years under President Barack Obama, and having people on his team who worked for Obama as he vetted and ushered through his own judicial nominations.
    As of Friday, Biden has 52 district court vacancies and four appeals court vacancies to fill ― numbers that will only continue to grow. These are all lifetime posts.
    Since he took office, a wave of federal judges has announced retirement plans. While judges in lifetime seats have personal reasons for retiring when they do, it's safe to say, for the most part, that the timing of these judges' departures isn't coincidental: They wanted Biden to pick their replacements, not Trump.




  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

    This gave me a clearer look at the behaviors of Greene and people like her. https://bit.ly/3joOPzh and why she doesn't care that her assignments were stripped.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

    Ruth, I hope a lot of good judges have been put forth and that almost if all not of those will be seated. I think indeed that whoever is really in charge of those things should keep the judges coming and fill everything that can be filled as soon as possible.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

    May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich what kind of shithole holoe political party flies so far the fuck off the rails that a Cheney becomes its moral center'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

    May be a Twitter screenshot of 1 person and text that says 'Kurt Bardella Notice how when the party of white nationalists controls the levers of power, it's "my way or the highway," but the minute they lose some of that power, they turn into victims whining about bipartisanship. Don't fall for it Democrats. Fortune favors the bold. Be aggressive!'

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

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  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited February 2021

    Thoughts and prayers......

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  • divinemrsm
    divinemrsm Member Posts: 6,621
    edited February 2021

    Whoa! Lou Dobbs' show cancelled!!!

    Ruth, what a great article about Biden tossing out Trump's last minute judicial nominations. I was unaware of it, but am not surprised that Biden and his team have been on top of this for months now. They intentionally tune out the Trump drama and hype and get on with the work of changing the political landscape away from the governing young white conservative males towards more diversity. Oh, I love that a wave of judges announced retirement now that Biden is Prez.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

    I just read the piece about Lou Dobbs getting axed. Just a shame a couple of he others couldn't meet the same fate but their lies don't involve big companies for of all things national elections. Well, I won't miss Lou, but then I didn't watch him anyway. Most I saw of him were the re-plays from news items of things he said on his programs. I can get through maybe 10 mins. of any of the Fox programs before I am ready to boil over and then have to switch off.

    Fox is in trouble for the moment. Both CNN and MSNBC have overtaken them in ratings. They had to distance themselves from Trump and as the piece I read opined -- Pres. Biden isn't doing much that they can use. The Reps. are stuck on Trump and don't have so much for Fox and they are in chaos themselves and there is enough bi-partisan positive sentiment ( who doesn't want covid to get better and stimulus checks and jobs etc. ) that he can't be easily picked on by Fox. Not so easy to stoke some of their normal division when they can't use Trump, or most of the things he ruined.

  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

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  • illinoislady
    illinoislady Member Posts: 40,950
    edited February 2021

    The greatest way to live with honor in this world
    is to be what we pretend to be.
    - Socrates

    Reputation is what other people know about you.
    Honor is what you know about yourself.
    - Lois McMaster Bujold

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited February 2021

    Caryn, I am not getting into Zoom on your link. This is what I get:

    Error: app_not_configured_for_user

    Service is not configured for this user.

  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 5,356
    edited February 2021

    Dang! Let me check my settings!

  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 5,356
    edited February 2021

    I am so sorry! I can't figure out what the problem is. Ruth , can you jump on your free acct and start a meeting? Just copy the invite here’s

  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,434
    edited February 2021

    I got the same message....

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited February 2021

    Okay. Stay tuned, I'll quick set up a meeting & post the information here within the next 5 minutes!

  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 5,356
    edited February 2021

    Technical difficulties, stand by please

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited February 2021
    Join Zoom Meeting

    https://us04web.zoom.us/j/78559734933?pwd=YmFvOTB4a1dGejRHVUpRTVA1VXFxdz09

    Meeting ID: 785 5973 4933
    Passcode: jgfZ7M

    Try this!




  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited February 2021

    Just click on the link if you want to join!

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited February 2021

    Sorry Zoomers, we had technical problems today. Caryn & I will try to figure them out before next Saturday & let you know the plan. (If you aren't able to get on from the link, check back here & we will try to put together a Plan B.)

  • octogirl
    octogirl Member Posts: 2,434
    edited February 2021

    Thanks Ruth!!

  • ruthbru
    ruthbru Member Posts: 47,923
    edited February 2021

    Kad2Kar, I see you just tried to join the meeting. I only have a 40 minute time limited account so we were already cut off. Hopefully next week!!!!!

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