{"id":3306,"date":"2013-05-29T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2013-05-29T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:18:21","slug":"republican-court-unpacking-plan-takes-judicial-manipulation-to-a-new-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/05\/republican-court-unpacking-plan-takes-judicial-manipulation-to-a-new-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Court Unpacking Plan Takes Judicial Manipulation to a New Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2865\" alt=\"supreme court\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE-300x212.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE-300x212.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE-150x106.jpg 150w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE-400x283.jpg 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SCOTUSbuilding_1st_Street_SE.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans in the Senate have made no secret of their efforts to block the President\u2019s constitutional responsibility to appoint federal judges. They have filibustered unquestionably qualified nominees, like Caitlin Halligan. And their obstruction of the confirmation process kept several nominees waiting more than a year for a vote. \u00a0In fact, on average, our judicial nominees wait more than three times as long as those of President Bush after being approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee. \u00a0And for no good reason. \u00a0Earlier this year, four Circuit Court judges were confirmed by the Senate after waiting at least 250 days \u2013 even though each one was confirmed with overwhelming bipartisan support.<\/p>\n<p>But now, Republicans are taking their attempts to manipulate the federal judiciary to an entirely new level. Right as our D.C. Circuit Court nominee Sri Srinivasan was confirmed unanimously, Republicans started pushing a proposal to reduce the number of judges on the D.C. Circuit from 11 to 8, a blatant attempt to shrink President Obama\u2019s constitutional authority to fill this court. As President Franklin Delano Roosevelt learned when he tried to pack the Supreme Court, the three branches of government are coequal for a reason. Neither the executive branch or the legislative branch should use the third branch to a pursue a partisan agenda.<\/p>\n<p>And on the merits, Senator Grassley\u2019s \u201ccourt unpacking proposal\u201d fails to make any sense.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/republican-court-unpacking-plan-takes-judicial-manipulation-new-level\">Republican Court Unpacking Plan Takes Judicial Manipulation to a New Level | The White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in the Senate have made no secret of their efforts to block the President\u2019s constitutional responsibility to appoint federal judges. They have filibustered unquestionably qualified nominees, like Caitlin Halligan. And their obstruction of the confirmation process kept several nominees waiting more than a year for a vote. \u00a0In fact, on average, our judicial nominees&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22,6],"tags":[26,1376,1451,196],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306"}],"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=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3307,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions\/3307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}