DeMint's Hold On Obama Nominee Putting D.C. Court In 'Dire Situation'

"history of very leftist activism,"

Is that good grammar?

Does that statement actually make sense?

and you know what's more prevalent in today's courts? Rightist activism!!

Our country is broken. DeMint does this because none of our supposed elected representatives will stand in his way. Republicans have no opposition. The lot of them deserve only scorn and destruction.

Gosh, if only the Democrats had a majority, and were not the minority party unable to advance anything. The Democrats are in need of a spine transplant.

Oh well, the press would pick up that just another activist leftist judge was nominated by that radical Obama, and is held up by a patriotic Senator who wants the Constitution upheld, and not judges legislating from the bench. That can be paired with a statement from the same Senator praising the Supreme Court decision on campaign financing.

The Democrats will once again wring their hands while this crackpot carves yet another notch in his insanity pole.

@Veritas..."Time to sack up and hurt South Carolina. Withhold funds, move military bases, kill jobs -- and let its citizens know why."

I'm one of those citizens, so I think I'll pass on your proposal. DeMint is an excrescence, a pimple on the body politic, and a disgrace to SC and the country as a whole. He couldn't ratiocinate his way out of a small wet paper bag, and he has grand ambitions to rat-fuck the entire country at some future date.

Harry Reid should step down now to "handle his campaign," and let them elect Schumer to ram this shit down the gaping collective maw of the Senate minority all whilst having his foot up their collective gaping asshole.

So much shoddy journalism, so little time...

"D.C. Superior Court officials have warned that Sen. Jim DeMint's hold on President Obama's nominee for that bench could harm the court's ability to hear cases in the nation's capitol."

I don't think any court hears cases in the Capitol... the capital perhaps, but not since 1935 has the Supreme Court convened in the Capitol building.

What work at MALDEF? Care to go into specifics TPM?

Why does the judge's sexual orientation factor into this story? I thought we were beyond that this day in age.

While a hold is different than a filibuster, the end is equally obstructive. All judges deserve a fair up and down vote in the Senate. That said, let's not forget that in 2004, it was the Democrats who BEGAN the unprecedented act of filibustering judicial nominees, including Miguel Estrada, Priscilla Owen, Charles W. Pickering, Carolyn Kuhl, David W. McKeague, Henry Saad, Richard Allen Griffin, William H. Pryor, William Gerry Myers III and Janice Rogers Brown. It was then that the "nuclear or constitutional option" was first discussed to prevent the use of filibusters for judicial nominees.

It's time for Biden to drop the A-Bomb, declare the Senate rules unconstitutional and implement a set that will ensure Dem's can get work done for the next 3 year. The only hope this country has for a decent future, is if we can somehow stow the Repubs in a cold, dank cellar until they can learn how to play nice.