{"id":1401,"date":"2012-03-14T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1401"},"modified":"2012-03-14T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:31:10","slug":"mcconnell-im-filibustering-seventeen-judges-because-reid-made-republicans-look-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/mcconnell-im-filibustering-seventeen-judges-because-reid-made-republicans-look-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: Im Filibustering Seventeen Judges Because Reid Made Republicans Look Bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both Reid and McConnell agree that there is nothing objectionable about these judges \u2014 in McConnell\u2019s words, \u201cit is highly unlikely any of these district judges are not going to be confirmed.\u201d Additionally, both men agree that the Senate should vote on the \u201cIPO bill\u201d that Reid refers to, a bill dealing with investments in small businesses that recently passed the House. Initially, Reid wanted to vote on the seventeen judges awaiting confirmation before moving on to the IPO bill, but he even concedes this point \u2014 saying that he is willing to \u201cgo to this IPO bill\u201d first as McConnell prefers.<\/p>\n<p>And then McConnell says this deal is unacceptable because Reid \u201cma[de] the minority look bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If this is truly McConnell\u2019s reason for blocking these judges, then he just made an absolutely shocking admission. Thanks to excessive judicial vacancies, America\u2019s courts are increasingly unable to function.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9OmnlsE5KBc?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"380\" height=\"260\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/justice\/2012\/03\/13\/444005\/mcconnell-im-filibustering-seventeen-judges-because-reid-made-republicans-look-bad\/\">McConnell: Im Filibustering Seventeen Judges Because Reid Made Republicans Look Bad | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both Reid and McConnell agree that there is nothing objectionable about these judges \u2014 in McConnell\u2019s words, \u201cit is highly unlikely any of these district judges are not going to be confirmed.\u201d Additionally, both men agree that the Senate should vote on the \u201cIPO bill\u201d that Reid refers to, a bill dealing with investments in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22,6],"tags":[218,796,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1401\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}