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Date: Nov. 17, 2017
Issues: Judicial Branch Legislative Branch

"Senate Republicans are abandoning their own standards to try to ram through President Trump's extreme judicial nominees. #CourtsMatter

In March 2009, all Republican Senators wrote to President Obama and insisted that they get to approve nominees from their home states.

That's the 100-year-old Senate blue slip tradition, which was respected throughout the Obama Administration. Senate Republicans used blue slips to block 18 qualified Obama nominations.

Senate Republicans have decided to give Trump nominees hearings over the objection of home state Senators. A big giveaway to @POTUS.

That's not all. Yesterday I said Senate Republicans should be honest and transparent about their effort to change the rules on judicial nominees' past drug use. http://bit.ly/2zQRB9P

Senate Republicans blocked Obama nominees who had used marijuana after passing the bar. Now they want a more flexible standard for Trump nominees.

I am not opposed to a more flexible standard. But it shouldn't be a double standard for Democratic vs. Republican nominees."

@SenatorDurbin


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