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no_hypocrisy

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1. My guess is that the republicans on the SJC privately opined that the nominee
Sat Nov 11, 2017, 07:55 AM
Nov 2017

had the right politics and that his clerks would do all the research and writing anyway. All he would have to do is sign off on the decisions.

I don't care if the nominee was law review (Dean's List in law school.) He barely knows how to be a lawyer, let alone a judge.

The Senate wouldn't have approved Harriet Miers in 2005 to the Supreme Court even though she was Bush's personal attorney (although it did approve Alberto Gonzalez as AG despite the fact prior to the nomination, he was a real estate attorney).

Here's the problem: no filibuster. It was removed during the Obama years to get HIS nominees approved. All you need is 50 republicans and Talley is on his first step to perhaps the Supreme Court. (And I bet you thought you couldn't get more obtuse than Clarence Thomas . . . . )

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