Senate reignites blue slip war over Trump judge picks

[Borealis]

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/431232-senate-reignites-blue-slip-war-over-trump-court-picks?__twitter_impression=true

The Senate is set to escalate a long simmering fight over President Trump's judicial nominees. Republicans are poised to confirm a pick for the influential circuit courts next week
without the support of either of the nominee's home-state senators—a first for the Trump era.

Eric Miller is the first appeals judge to get a vote on the Senate floor this year, and the 31st of Trump’s presidency. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) set up an initial vote on his
Ninth Circuit nomination for Monday evening. Miller’s nomination is set to revive a feud over “blue slips,” a paper that indicates if a home-state senator supports a nomination.

The blue-slip rule — a precedent upheld by Senate tradition — has historically allowed a home-state senator to stop a lower-court nominee by refusing to return the blue slip to the
Judiciary Committee. How strictly the precedent is upheld is decided by the committee chairman, and enforcement has varied depending on who wields the gavel.

Democrats and outside groups say Miller would be the first known example in the roughly 100 years that a blue slip has existed of a circuit nominee getting confirmed without either
home state senator returning the slip of paper.

[TornadoAP]

This is why Trump, Mitch, and their ilk are so dangerous. They're tearing down hundreds of years of very find precedents and social rules of governance, just so they can win. Just as many rules in a democracy exist implicitly as they exist explicitly as actual rules, and almost every previous republic or democracy have almost always died when these unannounced rules are broken just so someone can win, even in cases where overall the result was a positive for the populace like the with the Gracchi brothers. This is how democracy dies.

[Borealis]

The judge has been confirmed and 110 years of precedent have been broken.

[elix]

Win at all costs.

Boy they're gonna scream when the senate flips which could happen as early as next year.

Judge-packing, investigating the shit out of basically every member of the Republican Party with a splinter of Russian stink on them, declaring national emergencies for whatever the President wants (like climate change or health care or poverty).