JD Vance (Idiot-Oh) continues nominee hold as Senate Judiciary chair objects
WASHINGTON, D. C. - Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Richard Durbin on Friday urged Ohio’s JD Vance to stop delaying swift confirmation of Justice Department nominees, including Northeast Ohio U.S. Attorney nominee Becky Lutzko, to protest its prosecution of ex-President Donald Trump.
“U.S. attorneys are too important to be used as political pawns in a national debate,” the Illinois Democrat said in a Senate floor speech. “Don’t tell me that you’re for law and order, but you want to stop criminal prosecutors from being appointed to the job.”
Noting that Ohio ranks fourth in the nation for narcotics deaths, Durbin said it was “not explainable” for Vance to stop appointment of a criminal prosecutor to “go after these cartels and drug gangs.” Lutzko has been sworn into the Ohio job on an interim basis.
Durbin said all 85 U.S. attorney nominees around the nation were approved on voice vote during Trump’s administration as an “effort at goodwill and bipartisanship” by Democrats, even when they were suspicious of the GOP political agenda. Durbin argued it would be “physically impossible” to hold drawn out votes on all non-controversial nominees.
Vance is stopping the Senate from unanimously signing off on non-controversial nominees whose approval previously has been done without recorded votes as a time-saving measure, even though he doesn’t object to most of the nominees.
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/09/ohios-jd-vance-continues-nominee-hold-as-senate-judiciary-chair-objects.html
****I love how Durbin refers to Hillbilly as the “JUNIOR” Senator.
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and me, too!
I live in Tim’s old district.
