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Democrats threaten ‘nuclear option’ over Republicans’ war on women Obama nominees
Democrats in the Senate fumed this week as Republicans blocked another of President Barack Obama’s nominees to sit on a federal appeals court, the third woman in a series of legislative obstructions. Members of the Senate Democratic caucus have even begun to talk about invoking the so-called “nuclear option,” which would allow them to approve nominations on a simple majority.[To read the full article, click on the following link]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said that Republicans “may not like” current U.S. laws like Wall Street reform or the gender and ideological bent of Pres. Obama’s nominees, but that eventually the GOP will have to end its temper tantrum and allow the American people’s business to proceed.
According to the Guardian, Georgetown University professor Nina Pillard would only have been the sixth woman in 120 years to on the U.S. court of appeals for the District of Columbia circuit. That court, the paper noted, “is known as the second highest court in the land due to its key role in ruling on legal challenges against the US government.”
By now the pattern of blanket obstruction to any measures proposed by the Obama administration should come as no surprise, but it is particularly galling to Democrats that even as they strip away women’s rights to choose and even make it more difficult for them to vote in states like Texas, they are opposing the ascent of any women nominees to federal judgeships, charging that Obama is trying to stack the courts with ideologues who will unthinkingly do his bidding.
SOURCE: democrats-threaten-nuclear-option-over-republicans-war-on-women-obama-nominees
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/15/democrats-threaten-nuclear-option-over-republicans-war-on-women-obama-nominees
Stephanie Doty
Weary of Wonderland
November 16, 2013
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