"It's called precedent," the Senate Judiciary Committee chair said of violating the same rule that Republicans ignored to move forward with judicial nominees.
"It's called precedent," the Senate Judiciary Committee chair said of violating the same rule that Republicans ignored to move forward with judicial nominees.
Nobody's shooting them for allowing debate. It's not a binary where they have to either allow Republicans to obstruct endlessly or eliminate debate completely.
That is an impressive selective reading of the article. One could be left to wonder how, in good faith, you could have possibly missed all of this:
Durbin went straight to their votes, saying senators already had two chances to debate their nominations.
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“I understand what you’d like to do, but I’m saying, in fairness, we’ve debated these nominees twice,” Durbin said. “I ask the clerk to call the roll.”
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Through all this, Durbin sat expressionless, waiting for breaks in the attacks to quietly direct the clerk to continue the roll call. He periodically reminded Republicans that they’d already had two chances to debate both nominees in two separate hearings.
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“This is the third time they were brought up,” he added of the two nominees at the center of Thursday’s hearing. “That’s the reason the ruling was made by the chair.”
... A committee spokesperson noted that Kennedy spoke on Kasubhai in a Nov. 2 hearing and again in a Nov. 19 hearing, for a total of 12 minutes.
... Graham spoke on both nominees in the Nov. 2 hearing, for about two minutes, too. And Cotton spoke on Kasubhai in the Nov. 9 hearing for about six minutes.
Why should Dems follow all the rules when repubs don't? If anyone cares about the rule, they should have punished the previous committee leaders even though they have an R by their name.
Love when people have that argument. I always politely remind them that we didn't just turn all of our cheeks to Hitler and hope he stopped. At a certain point you gotta go all in.
If one party ignores the rules, while the other party follows them, the party with no regard for the rules will take all the power, and we definitely won't have a democracy anymore.
The same reason Dems should do a SHITLOAD of things differently than the Republicans: because they're better and more honest or at least pretending to be.
Well...a wrong is a negative thing. Two wrongs would be a double negative. A double negative is a positive and a positive thing is a right.
Therefore two wrongs do in fact make a right.
(Please note: I don't believe this and an just using words recreationally)
Its not the multiplicative of wrongs its just the summation. If you rob a bank and also commit wire fraud that person isn't responsible for a wire fraud worth of bank robberies. In fact, that statement is nonsense. Two wrongs add up having done more wrong.