Saturday, October 17, 2020

ACB Hearings: Wrap-Up and a Looming Scheme

 ACB Hearings: Wrap-Up and a Looming Scheme

Excerpt: During four days of hearings, Barrett displayed her stellar qualifications and amiable temperament — even eliciting mild praise from Democrats like Dianne Feinstein (her dogmatically anti-religious hot-mic moment notwithstanding). Yet Democrats have to be able to tell their radical base they did something to stop Barrett. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has just the thing: Democrats might once again break precedent and trash basic decency in the Senate by refusing to supply a quorum for a vote. [This isn’t exactly a “new” tactic. Our TOJ host, Bob Hall, once spent a night sleeping across the doorway to the Massachusetts Senate chamber (he was a State Senator at the time) to prevent members from entering and passing legislation in the middle of the night with only two or three members present and no one calling for a quorum count. It worked, too. Ron P.]

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