T**********e
发帖数: 29576 | 1 赵老公真流氓。
McConnell's vehicle for further marginalizing Senate
Democrats involves an obscure tradition known as the blue slip. The
President nominates all federal judges, but for decades the home-state
senators for all nominees have been asked for their approval of the choices.
If the senators agree, they submit a form (on blue paper) that ratifies the
choice. If they do not approve of the nominee, they do not return the so-
called blue slip and the Judiciary Committee does not move the nominee
forward to a hearing and a vote.
The blue-slip rule does not have the force of law; it's simply a custom that
has been honored over time. Notably, when Patrick Leahy, the Vermont
Democrat, was the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, during the Obama
Administration, he followed the blue-slip rule in states where there were
Republican senators. If these senators did not return their blue slips and
many did not, especially in Texas and other Southern states Leahy buried
the President's nominees. In truth, the blue slip is a rather dubious
tradition, one that has historically given senators a little-deserved veto
power over a President's choice. But, because Senate Republicans exercised
this power over Obama's nominees, it's only fair that
that Senate Democrats have equal say when it comes to Trump's.
The current showdown began in September, when Al Franken, the Minnesota
Democrat, refused to return a blue slip for Trump's nomination of David
Stras, a Justice on the Minnesota Supreme Court, to serve on the Eighth
Circuit Court of Appeals. Rather than honor the blue-slip tradition,
McConnell said that he would ignore it and deprive Senate Democrats of the
veto power that Republicans enjoyed during the Obama years. | k******0
发帖数: 2438 | | w******e
发帖数: 953 | 3 No law says they have the power to do so.
marginalizing Senate
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【在 T**********e 的大作中提到】
: 赵老公真流氓。
: McConnell's vehicle for further marginalizing Senate
: Democrats involves an obscure tradition known as the blue slip. The
: President nominates all federal judges, but for decades the home-state
: senators for all nominees have been asked for their approval of the choices.
: If the senators agree, they submit a form (on blue paper) that ratifies the
: choice. If they do not approve of the nominee, they do not return the so-
: called blue slip and the Judiciary Committee does not move the nominee
: forward to a hearing and a vote.
: The blue-slip rule does not have the force of law; it's simply a custom that
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发帖数: 27064 | | f**********n
发帖数: 29853 | 5 这种蓝纸条只是传统，在两党政治斗争白热化，民主党啥也不干只是抵抗的时候，去掉
这个传统不是坏事。 | T**********e
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是这么回事，以后可以老头给夏威夷任命个红脖法官了。
【在 f**********n 的大作中提到】
: 这种蓝纸条只是传统，在两党政治斗争白热化，民主党啥也不干只是抵抗的时候，去掉
: 这个传统不是坏事。
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