Opinion | The Root Causes of Congressional Dysfunction
All the incentives are wrong.
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All the incentives are wrong.
All the incentives are wrong.
Senator Taj Haider questions if law allows "withdrawal" of valid signatures; Secretariat insists requisition has become infructuous.
With the 118th Congress underway, the Senate’s process of evaluating President Joe Biden’s judicial nominations has resumed. This means that, joining death and taxes on the certainty list, is pressure for the majority to rig the process by abandoning the “blue slip” process that gives deference to senators in whose state a judicial nominee would serve.
When there was a Republican president and GOP-led Senate, Democrats said "blue slips" were key in the judicial confirmation process. Not now.