Under the made-up blue slip rule, for a Trump judge or US Attorney nomination to go forward for approval, BOTH SENATORS, even from a Democrat state, must approve. Otherwise Grassley won't send the nominee forward.
Because of the blue slip system, there are entire judicial regions (the 9th Circuit) where it's known by lawyers and other judges that the law doesn't apply. There's no way to reform the system, because the Senate won't change the rules.
This also means that Trump, despite winning the popular vote and 7 for 7 swing states, cannot appoint US Attorneys who will enforce the will of the American people. One Democrat can veto anything.
Even worse, there are line attorneys inside DOJ who are working to protect Democrats. They were hired by Biden. There's no way to remove them, because Trump cannot put his own US Atty inside the office.
The blue slip system is made up, by the way. It's not in law. Grassley could end it today. Why won't he?
You have to reject this kind of doomerism. I have six kids. The idea that the American dream is dead forever and there's no way to fix anything and I'm supposed to just accept that and give up on my children's future is repulsive to me. I could never do that, and will never do it. The fight continues.
Madame Secretary:
It crossed your mind to call up Sen. Klobuchar, the FBI and the DOJ and have me arrested for a humorous meme about your campaign.
You then celebrated my unlawful and wrongful conviction, which was later overturned by a federal appeals court.
Sit down.
Get rid of her. Today. This is insane. Conservatives have fought for decades for the right to refuse service to anyone. We won that fight. Now Pam Bondi wants to roll it all back for no reason. The employee who didn’t print the flyer was already fired by his employer. This stuff is being handled successfully through free speech and free markets. This is totally gratuitous and pointless. We need the AG focused on bringing down the left wing terror cells, not prosecuting Office Depot for God’s sake.
Before tonight's game we held a moment of silence in memoriam of Charlie Kirk.
Kirk founded the youth activist group “Turning Point USA” and had become a fixture on college campuses. Charlie Kirk, a husband and father of two children, was 31 years old.
RFK Jr. just went off for 2 minutes straight tearing into the politicization of COVID.
The entire room went silent.
Watch:
“The whole process was politicized. Senator, I mean, we were lied to about everything.”
“We were lied to about natural immunity. We were lied to about, you know, we were told again and again, the vaccines would prevent transmission. They'd prevent infection. It wasn't true. They knew it from the start. It wasn't true because that's what the animal studies in the clinical trials showed. We were told that there was science behind cloth masks.”
“The CDC allowed the teachers union to write the order closing our schools, which hurt working people all over the country, and then pretend it was science-based.”
“President Biden said in August, I would never take that vaccine, the Trump vaccine. And he came in, he mandated it, and then he fired the two top health officials at FDA who said, hey, this thing has not been properly tested. So the whole process was politicized even today.”
@Holden_Culotta If parents want to dose their kids on their own accord, so be it. In the meantime, the pressure from pediatricians to inject newborn infants under threat of losing medical care must stop immediately.
@Holden_Culotta What are you waiting for? Eliminate the schedule now and only add immunizations to a new schedule after having been proven safe and effective.
@elonmusk Earlier. If later, the northern states would experience sunrises well after 8:00 A.M. in the winter. That means there would be little to no daylight before school starts. That would be a disaster for the Nation’s children.
OK, now I’m going to have to speak up. Assuming the below is accurate @HHSGov & @NIH could have used that 29M USD to fund approximately 20 full five-year NIH grants to laboratories to do basic research. (Including overhead costs). This is egregious. WTF.
I just.
I don’t know what to say.
My heart is singing so loudly.
As of today, we are going into overdrive mode.
We are going to push harder — we are going to set up even more voter registration events.
I’m spending the majority of 2025 in New Jersey.
GAME ON!