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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: 240B on December 13, 2017, 11:42:28 pm

Title: While Everyone Was Distracted by Alabama Election, Senate Passed Tight Vote to Give Trump a Huge Vic
Post by: 240B on December 13, 2017, 11:42:28 pm: Digital Politics Daily
By Warner Todd Huston
December 13, 2017

While the nation was distracted by how Judge Roy Moore was going to do in the Alabama Senate election, President Donald Trump won a big victory for the U.S. court system by getting confirmation for another important judicial nominee, giving Trump a record number of judges confirmed.

As the media went wild for the Alabama special election this week, President Trump was hard at work getting yet another center-right judge confirmed with a 50-48 vote to confirm Leonard Steven Grasz for the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. And this was despite the left-wing American Bar Association (ABA) rated Grasz as â€œnot qualifiedâ€ to be a judge.

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Title: Re: While Everyone Was Distracted by Alabama Election, Senate Passed Tight Vote to Give Trump a Huge
Post by: Emjay on December 14, 2017, 12:53:07 am: clearing the judicial swamp, one judge at a time.
Title: Re: While Everyone Was Distracted by Alabama Election, Senate Passed Tight Vote to Give Trump a Huge
Post by: Frank Cannon on December 14, 2017, 12:55:51 am: Does this mean I can commit a crime and get a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card because I voted for Donny?

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Title: Re: While Everyone Was Distracted by Alabama Election, Senate Passed Tight Vote to Give Trump a Huge
Post by: libertybele on December 14, 2017, 03:55:02 am: He better get as many through now as he possibly can; with losing AL the GOP slim majority just got even slimmer ... and McCain is hospitalized right now.
Title: Re: While Everyone Was Distracted by Alabama Election, Senate Passed Tight Vote to Give Trump a Huge
Post by: Fantom on December 14, 2017, 04:00:22 am: Quote from: Frank Cannon on December 14, 2017, 12:55:51 am
Does this mean I can commit a crime and get a "Get Out Of Jail Free" card because I voted for Donny?

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Depends on whether your crime is one of existential nazism according to the anti-trumpers and schumer/peloser types.