{"id":33786,"date":"2017-07-05T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=33786"},"modified":"2017-07-05T05:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T05:00:22","slug":"senate-democrats-blocking-trump-court-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/senate-democrats-blocking-trump-court-picks.html","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats blocking Trump court picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Senate Democrats blocking Trump court picks<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Senate Democrats are turning to procedural tactics to delay confirmation of President Trump\u2019s appeals court picks, and conservative groups are firing back with a new ad in Michigan trying to force two Democrats to clear a path for one embattled nominee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The Judicial Crisis Network says it will spend $140,000 on the ad, which demands Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters drop any objections to Michigan Supreme Court Justice Joan Larsen, who Mr. Trump nominated to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on May 8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The senators are flexing the chamber\u2019s \u201cblue slip\u201d tradition, which gives individual lawmakers an exceptional amount of say in judges from their home state. Under the tradition, if both home-state senators don\u2019t return their blue slips, signaling acceptance, Senate leaders will hold off on action on that pick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Neither Ms. Stabenow nor Mr. Peters have returned their blue slips. Spokesmen for both senators say they\u2019re still studying the issues on the Larsen pick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Conservatives, though, want to see a speedy decision.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cThis is someone the citizens of Michigan have overwhelmingly approved as their Supreme Court Justice,\u201d said Carrie Severino, chief counsel at the JCN. \u201cIt\u2019s absurd [Democrats] would attempt to block her confirmation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/jul\/4\/senate-democrats-blocking-donald-trump-court-picks\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/senate-democrats-blocking-trump-court-picks.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Democrats blocking Trump court picks Senate Democrats are turning to procedural tactics to delay confirmation of President Trump\u2019s appeals court picks, and conservative groups are firing back with a new ad in Michigan trying to force two Democrats to clear a path for one embattled nominee. 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