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12. Ramming through a piece of human garbage, much like themselves.

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Thu Jul 17, 2025, 03:15 PM

Jul 17

Why hundreds of lawyers are banding together against Emil Bove’s judicial nomination
The nominee for a lifetime federal judgeship has demonstrated a total disregard for the high ethical standards to which most federal prosecutors hold themselves.

July 17, 2025, 6:00 AM EDT
By Mimi Rocah, former district attorney of Westchester County, New York

Well over 300 federal, Article III judges across the country are former federal prosecutors. They have been nominated by Democratic and Republican presidents in larger numbers than any other group of lawyers. And yet I cannot recall such fierce and widespread opposition to a former prosecutor’s nomination — not just from a range of ideological backgrounds, not just from the legal community generally, but from more than 900 former Justice Department attorneys and former judges — until the nomination of Emil Bove.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/emil-bove-trump-federal-judge-nomination-senate-letter-rcna219169

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BREAKING: In a shocking moment, Senate DEMs storm out of a hearing to protest the GOP ramming through Emil Bove [View all] In It to Win It Jul 17 OP

Don't they need 60 votes?..................... Lovie777 Jul 17 #1

No In It to Win It Jul 17 #2

This looks like a committee vote -- not the full vote in the Senate. W_HAMILTON Jul 17 #3

Senate rules... surfered Jul 17 #5

This has nothing to do with that. W_HAMILTON Jul 17 #7

I was replying to a comment asking if it would take 60 votes surfered Jul 17 #11

Wondered about that, too. Kid Berwyn Jul 17 #4

Senate Democrats confirmed more judges under Biden than Trump got in his first term. tritsofme Jul 17 #8

Big deal. Trump the traitor is getting his way in Court and Congress. Kid Berwyn Jul 17 #10

Uh, Democrats did filibuster Gorsuch, and then McConnell used the nuclear option. tritsofme Jul 17 #13

Right. Might as well just get out of the way. Kid Berwyn Jul 17 #14

Just as Republicans were powerless to stop Biden and Democrats from confirming a record number of judges. tritsofme Jul 17 #18

No, the only way is to uphold the Constitution of the United States. Kid Berwyn Jul 17 #19

No Polybius Jul 17 #15

It's a committee hearing. Reid didn't touch their rules, I don't think. n/t Igel Jul 17 #16

Apparently, they're not better than that, but this kind of democratic disrespect is consistent with their cowardice Uncle Joe Jul 17 #6

Maddow Blog-Republicans shrug off laundry list of scandals, advance Emil Bove's judicial nomination LetMyPeopleVote Jul 17 #9

I'd like to read the Senate quorum rules someday. Igel Jul 17 #17

Ramming through a piece of human garbage, much like themselves. Passages Jul 17 #12