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MrPurple

(985 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 10:19 PM Jan 2017

Good - Al Franken is on the Judiciary Committee

It seems like he might be our MVP for questioning nominees. He obliterated Betsy DeVos, which is kind of like saying you beat up Stephen Hawking, but he still did a great job with drawing her into the details and he presents really well.

Gorsich has written a lot of opinions, apparently a number on women's health issues, and a book on physician assisted suicide. Trump was unambiguous how terrific Gorsich will be for ending abortion, and if opinions like that are in writing, the R's will have to exercise the nuclear option, which they probably will. But, there need to be hearings that are nationally watched like Clarence Thomas to put them on the hook for it.

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Good - Al Franken is on the Judiciary Committee (Original Post) MrPurple Jan 2017 OP
Frankens statement on Gorsuch riverwalker Jan 2017 #1
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