Senator Richard Burr Blocks Judge That Senator Richard Burr Told Obama To Nominate

[hrmjustin]

IAN MILLHISER

In 2009, Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) wrote a letter to President Obama recommending that he nominate Jennifer May-Parker, a federal prosecutor from his state, to a judicial vacancy on a federal trial court. You can read his letter to President Obama here. Last June, the president agreed with Burr’s recommendation, and nominated Ms. May-Parker to be a federal district judge.

And now Burr is blocking May-Parker’s nomination, invoking an arcane Senate tradition that allows senators to unilaterally veto judicial nominees from their own state. In an interview with the Huffington Post’s Jennifer Bendery, Burr refused to explain why the woman he once said has “the requisite qualifications to serve with distinction” as a federal district judge is suddenly unfit to be a federal district judge.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/01/15/3164541/senator-richard-burr-blocks-judge-senator-richard-burr-told-obama-nominate/

[Archae]

1. Republicans will do anything to black Obama.

This is nothing but crass, petty childish politics, kissing up to the "Hate Obama At All Costs" club.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. If ever the public needed proof that Republicans believe their ONLY job in the Senate is

to block and obstruct this president at every angle at any opportunity, this one should be used as a prime example.

The fact that that numbskull of a North Carolinian Senator is too embarrassed to give explanation for his extreme partisan action to a major news source only underscores the validity of the above.