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Yet it was not the Republicans alone who brought us to this juncture. The hypocritical and unprecedented obstruction of Senate Democrats did just as much to elevate partisan rancor. If the Dems were to allow all judicial nominees an up-or-down vote, the current kerfuffle would quickly end.
Democrats articulated well the up-or-down vote principle in the late 1990s when President Clinton’s nominees faced Republican obstruction, but with the tables turned seem to have forgotten it. One of the chief obstructionists, Patrick Leahy D-VT, said in 1998: “I would...
Filibuster supporters may claim that they are acting only to prevent ideologically extreme candidates from attaining lifetime appointments, but the action serves only to further politicize the judicial branch and increase partisan bitterness. The nuclear option reared its ugly head when special interest groups began distributing lists targeting nominees as...
“It was a bad call by the umpire,” Kidder said. “It was an awful obstruction call in the 8th inning.”
If found guilty, he faces a maximum sentence of 5 years in prison for each count of mail fraud and each obstruction count, 10 years in prison for each health care fraud count, and 20 years in prison on each money laundering count.