For the most part, nominees aren’t subject to filibuster; the most that the Democrats can do is to slow the pace of approvals to a crawl, which they should have been doing from day 1. Next best time to do it for every nominee is today.
Schumer to Slow Trump Justice Dept. Nominees Over Qatari Jet
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Nay@feddit.nl 1 day ago
That’ll teach 'em!
silence7@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Gumming up the Senate is about the limit of what the Democrats have the votes to do. If we wanted them to have real power, we needed to vote more of them into Congress
Cort@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yeah, except I remember when Lil bitch McConnell refused to allow ANY Obama appointees through the process. Democrats should have been doing the same thing already, but they’re just now slowing things down
Nay@feddit.nl 19 hours ago
People will say “But the Democrats are bad, too!” and they aren’t wrong. At least they were “Lawful Evil.” You can deal with that.
This administration is chaotic evil.
The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org 1 day ago
That…and a sternly written letter