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September 6, 2017 2017-09-06T12:03:11-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/425/20170906120553011_hd.jpgSen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island, on how Judiciary Committe confirmation hearings of judicial nominees have become a joke because senators are unable to get nominees to state their actual judicial views. "I look out at a president who has specifically said he has a litmus test for appointees... And I look out a very specific machinery of influence that is designed... to bring the will of ideological and business interests into our courts... And then I see nominees who have support of that president, with his litmus test and his disregard for the rule of law, who've been cleared by those very ideological and business interests for policy-making positions in the court... and then we get answers that are hopeless in terms of trying to give us any sense of what those effects would be."
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September 6, 2017 2017-09-06T12:03:11-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/425/20170906120553011_hd.jpgSen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island, on how Judiciary Committe confirmation hearings of judicial nominees have become a joke because senators are unable to get nominees to state their actual judicial views. "I look out at a president who has specifically said he has a litmus test for appointees... And I look out a very specific machinery of influence that is designed... to bring the will of ideological and business interests into our courts... And then I see nominees who have support of that president, with his litmus test and his disregard for the rule of law, who've been cleared by those very ideological and business interests for policy-making positions in the court... and then we get answers that are hopeless in terms of trying to give us any sense of what those effects would be."
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island, on how Judiciary Committe confirmation hearings of judicial nominees have become a joke… read more
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat from Rhode Island, on how Judiciary Committe confirmation hearings of judicial nominees have become a joke because senators are unable to get nominees to state their actual judicial views. "I look out at a president who has specifically said he has a litmus test for appointees... And I look out a very specific machinery of influence that is designed... to bring the will of ideological and business interests into our courts... And then I see nominees who have support of that president, with his litmus test and his disregard for the rule of law, who've been cleared by those very ideological and business interests for policy-making positions in the court... and then we get answers that are hopeless in terms of trying to give us any sense of what those effects would be." close
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