Senator Richard Blumenthal (D CT)Encourages Democrats to ‘Reveal and Shame’ Trump’s Judicial Nominees By Nicholas Ballasy See note please
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Blumenthal is a documented liar . When he ran for Senate he told veterans he served in Vietnam….never did. It was a shameless fabrication. Read https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265462/remembering-rich-blumenthals-vietnam-deception-lloyd-billingsley.
WASHINGTON – Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said Democrats should “reveal and shame” President Trump’s judicial nominees since they do not have the power to filibuster them.
The Senate Judiciary Committee recently approved 17 of Trump’s judicial nominees. The Trump administration released a list of 12 new judicial nominees last week.
Blumenthal argued that the Trump administration is “seeking to radically reshape our judiciary,” which poses a threat to the protection of “individual rights and liberties including reproductive rights, LGBT rights, voting rights, workers’ rights, environmental protection and much more.”
He cited the confirmation of Judge John Bush for the 6th Circuit last summer.
“He has spent a decade posting online under a pseudonym using crude vulgar language to demean gay people, reproductive rights; he likened abortion to slavery and politicians who he may have disagreed with. He’s just one example,” Blumenthal said during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. “Mark Norris, he was confirmed last week by the Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote – he has made a career out of hyper-partisanship. In 2001-2009, he fought for a change in the Tennessee constitution to severely restrict reproductive rights.”
Blumenthal continued, “They have in mind a clear and cruel agenda to dismantle essential elements that protect rights and liberties fundamental to our Constitution and to American values.”
He urged voters to remember that these are lifetime appointments.
“They are also young; you know, they will be there for 30 and 40 years, literally. They will way outlast me as a practicing lawyer if I still can call myself one – they will way outlast most of us,” he said. “They will almost outlast our children because they will be on the bench as lifetime appointees for decades to come, so they are a lasting legacy of this administration that is cruel and lawless and we have to work to galvanize the American people so they understand what is at stake.”
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