The head of the GOP Senate rejects Trump’s call at the end of the bipartite tradition of the judicial appointment
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The head of the majority of the Senate, John Thune, rejected President Donald Trump’s appeal on Wednesday to ignore a tradition of the Senate to accelerate the confirmations of his American lawyer and candidates for the federal judge.
The Republican chief told Capitol Hill journalists that he did not believe “that there was a strong interest” to remove the previous “Slip Blue”, which takes into account the views of the nomine -nominated state senators before going ahead in the confirmation process.
“I am happy to hear what the senator [Chuck] Grassley and my colleagues say, but no, I don’t think there is a strong interest in changing this here, “said the Southern Dakota Republican.
The comments come after Trump exhorted Grassley, the president of the Senate judicial committee on Tuesday to “intervene” and to break with tradition to accelerate the candidates to stand.
But while Trump argued on the social truth that “the Democrats broke this ridiculous custom on us, it is time for us to break them on them,” said Thune until Wednesday that the two parties used blue Bordeaux to prevent candidates from considering.
“I think the blue shift process is something that has been used for both sides for a long time, and none of the parties has violated its use in the past,” he told journalists.
“We will see where the conversation is going with our colleagues, but I feel no rush to change it,” he added. “I think the key is to make sure that we make good progress by listing the judges who appear on the president’s list, and at some point, we may have to consider doing things differently on nominees in general, if the Democrats continue this path of obstruction in which they are at the moment.”
Grassley declared at the start of the meeting of the morning judicial committee on Wednesday that he had been “surprised to see President Trump on the social truth which goes after me and the republicans of the Senate on what we call” blue pants “.”
“Now, for the people of the real America – not here in Washington, DC, an island surrounded by reality – the people of real America do not care about what the` `Blue Slip ”, but, in fact, this has an impact on the judges of the district which serve their communities and the American lawyers who ensure that the law and the order are imposed,” he said. “The two parties have managed to use the rule to block presidential candidates in the past, and it has generally been respected.”
“I was offended by what the president said, and I am disappointed that it would cause personal insults,” concluded Grassley.
A number of Senate Republicans supported the Republican and the Iowa previous.
The whip of the majority of the Senate, John Barrasso, told CNN “I support the president”, while Senator John Kennedy asked Trump to “back up this problem” and described him as “unnecessary fight”.
“In particular for district judges, senators are much better able to choose a lawyer from their community,” said Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican. “This satisfies what I call community standards.”
“What I try to do is choose men and women so that other members of the community watch and go, you know, I may not agree with everything they have said or done, but guy, they are good lawyers, and they will be fair and they will listen to both sides,” he continued. “This is the goal.”
Likewise, the Northern Carolina Senator, Thom Tillis, opposed any change, saying of Trump: “He who advised him on this policy has no brain on this subject.”
“If you send a name to a state where you do not even give yourself up to the two Democratic members, then you establish this for the political physics of which I am talking about recovery,” he said. “And why would we do that?”
Senator John Cornyn, who faces a difficult battle to re -election in Texas, said that he would support the choice of Grassley and Thune.
When he supported if he thinks it is the right decision, Cornyn repeated that he “would support their decision”.
