The GOP Revengers Who Don’t Care About the Republic
It is no secret that Thom Tillis is in the Senate to block the Trump agenda, the one the American people voted for. He is still at it, right to the end. Tillis is now on a revenge mission after years of blocking everything President Trump does. Reuters reports that he said the White House ignored Senate recommendations and showed insufficient respect. Last I knew, the President wasn’t required to follow recommendations. Tillis is willing to block judicial nominees and help destroy the Republic. What a guy!
Senators also won’t abandon the blue slip, which is not constitutional and gives blue-state judges the positions regardless of who the president is. Allegedly, it works in Republican’s favor when the President is a Democrat. Does anyone think this crew of Democrats will adhere to the blue slip?
Tillis, everyone, has seen the very large number of Democrat judges running the presidency. That’s how countries like Brazil went down and became communist.
It’s not only Tillis who is on the revenge tour. John Cornyn, who claimed he would work with Donald Trump, is also making demands as time runs out.
According to WTAL:
In Texas, outgoing Sen. John Cornyn has expressed reservations about a top Justice Department official who has been nominated for a federal judgeship in the Dallas area. The two Arkansas senators, both Republicans, opposed a Trump nominee to a powerful appeals court seat, forcing the White House to withdraw Trump’s pick this week. And in Oklahoma, an appointed GOP senator has thrown up sudden objections to a district court nominee after earlier giving him the green light.
Central to this effort are Cornyn and retiring North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, both of whom serve on the Judiciary Committee and are using their leverage to effectively block nominations on behalf of Republicans who aren’t on the panel.
According to WTAL, Tillis said he wants senators and their views on the prospective judges to be heard by the administration. His message to the White House, Tillis said, was: “Don’t treat us like a manufacturing facility. Treat us like the U.S. Senate.”
Egos matter.
“I’m not making a judgment about the merit of the nominee. I’m calling a foul on a process,” Tillis said in an interview with the Associated Press. “And the sooner the White House gets that, the more productive these next two years will be. If they don’t, they do so at their own peril.”
There Are a Few Others Demanding Respect
John Cornyn is slowing down the nomination of Elliot Gaiser, who leads the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. He wants a background check of a DOJ lawyer.
“Trying to air-drop somebody else in at the last minute for the Dallas vacancy that hasn’t been through that process, I think, is a concern,” Cornyn told the AP.
The complaint is that President Trump sometimes ignores senators’ recommendations.
It’s not only Cornyn and Tillis.
On Tuesday, the administration withdrew U.S. District Judge Lee Rudofsky’s nomination to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals after Arkansas Republican Sens. John Boozman and Tom Cotton opposed his selection. Trump replaced Rudofsky with Arkansas Supreme Court Justice J. Cody Hiland, whom Boozman had favored.
They are stepping out of their lane, and time is running out. Then again, Democrats are worse, as they plan to make this country a one-party hellhole.
