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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:11 PM Jun 2018

Grassley Urges Trump To Nominate A Judge With 'Credentials,' 'Intellect'

Source: Talking Points Memo


By Kate Riga | June 27, 2018 3:05 pm

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said in a statement shortly after the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy was announced that he hopes President Donald Trump will “soon” nominate a judge with “credentials, intellect, and commitment to the rule of law” to fill the spot.

Read the full statement here:



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Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/grassley-urges-trump-to-choose-judge-with-credentials-intellect

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Grassley Urges Trump To Nominate A Judge With 'Credentials,' 'Intellect' (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2018 OP
So Grassly wants a liberal justice? Hahahahaha Freethinker65 Jun 2018 #1
I know, right? He's just defined a Democrat. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #14
We will get a racist fascist who has pledged personal loyalty and fealty to drumpf. lark Jun 2018 #2
Someone who can make change for a Rouble - or a suitcase full of Roubles. lagomorph777 Jun 2018 #15
Shame that you have to urge the Prezinut to do that. deminks Jun 2018 #3
That's a pretty fast statement he whipped out. Looks like it was already ready to go. Honeycombe8 Jun 2018 #4
I'm sure it will be the BEST judge EVER nominated. 7962 Jun 2018 #5
Bwahahahahhhhaaaawwww! Not going to happen. japple Jun 2018 #6
STFU Iliyah Jun 2018 #7
Senate GOP may be more divided than it seems Snellius Jun 2018 #8
There will be long term consequences for sure bucolic_frolic Jun 2018 #12
I called Chuckles this afternoon 47of74 Jun 2018 #9
no concervative justice can satisfy all of those 3 criteria AlexSFCA Jun 2018 #10
It's going to be Senator Mike Lee n/t MosheFeingold Jun 2018 #11
He must mean Barack Obama Augiedog Jun 2018 #13
F*** You Grassley.........................did you schedule a meeting with Garland....yes you did turbinetree Jun 2018 #16
Trump won't nominate anyone that seems smarter than he is LiberalLovinLug Jun 2018 #17
As opposed to the completely incompetent idiots LuckyLib Jun 2018 #18
ROTFLMAO.....Is that same Grassley who daily attacks FBI and/or DOJ? NOMOGOP Jun 2018 #19
Grassley wouldn't recognize the rule of law if it smacked him in the face. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Jun 2018 #20
Sounds sarcastic Liberalhammer Jun 2018 #21
"And if you can't get one of those... jmowreader Jun 2018 #22

lark

(23,148 posts)
2. We will get a racist fascist who has pledged personal loyalty and fealty to drumpf.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:16 PM
Jun 2018

Someone who cares nothing for the country, but is all in for the rich and russia. We are doomed! I fucking hate Kennedy so bad right now I could just spit, scream, throw things, etc. etc.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
4. That's a pretty fast statement he whipped out. Looks like it was already ready to go.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:17 PM
Jun 2018

Yep. Kennedy had told them about it previously.

 

7962

(11,841 posts)
5. I'm sure it will be the BEST judge EVER nominated.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:17 PM
Jun 2018

because trump only does the BEST and the GREATEST

Snellius

(6,881 posts)
8. Senate GOP may be more divided than it seems
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:31 PM
Jun 2018

Third of Repubs still face general races a couple years down the road, fallout from Mueller probe, of a coming recession, of a likely overturn in the House and a president whose incompetence, insanity, and incontinence only smells worse the longer he goes.

bucolic_frolic

(43,259 posts)
12. There will be long term consequences for sure
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:45 PM
Jun 2018

and it is not unreasonable to hope for further indictments before say, October 1. If you believe hints dropped recently in tweets by John Schindler, retired IC consultant, some of those may be as surprising and heavyweight as the Rosenberg case of 1950.

If Trump nominates a lightweight it could backfire, or reverberate on both these stolen seats down the road. I say stolen of course because with the rigged election, Trump would not be in the Oval Office.

GWB faced similar circumstances. While I disagree with his nominations, they were qualified if ideological in the extreme. Fed Chairman Bernanke proved a flexible, innovative economist, for example.

Trump choosing someone of substance would be absurd, unless he listens to someone who tells him what to do. He'd nominate Hannity if he could.

 

47of74

(18,470 posts)
9. I called Chuckles this afternoon
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 06:37 PM
Jun 2018

And made my opposition to whatever Chuckles, McConnel, Ernst, fornicate face, and other reich wingers are doing plain.

turbinetree

(24,713 posts)
16. F*** You Grassley.........................did you schedule a meeting with Garland....yes you did
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 08:18 PM
Jun 2018

and then you did f****ing this...................

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-garland/senate-judiciary-committee-chairman-grassley-tells-garland-no-hearings-idUSKCN0X91OO


so go f*** yourself...................your just as bad as that asshole from leader of yours from Kentucky............you both violated the Constitution.........................jerk off ................

You do realize jerk off that when we elected Obama, we gave him the right and power to nominate a person to the bench(s) and you denied that right of our vote.....................its that fucking simple................


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough.....................vote

LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)
18. As opposed to the completely incompetent idiots
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 09:36 PM
Jun 2018

he has surrounded himself with? We’re not holding our breath!

20. Grassley wouldn't recognize the rule of law if it smacked him in the face.
Wed Jun 27, 2018, 10:13 PM
Jun 2018

What he and the other Repugs want is power at all costs. If he were for the rule of law then Obama would have appointed Scalia's replacement, he'd have objected when Scalia and the conservative justices gutted the Voting Rights Act, and he would be standing up against all the efforts at voter suppression.

Yeah, that's going to happen. In the end he will do what gives the Republic Party -- and by extension himself -- the most power.

We've got 49 Democratic Senators -- all we need is two more and we can build around him the wall Trump demands.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
22. "And if you can't get one of those...
Thu Jun 28, 2018, 12:16 AM
Jun 2018

...a justice who promises to overturn Roe v Wade, Obergefell v Hodges, Griswold v Connecticut and Loving v Virginia will be fine too."

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