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Judiciary Committee approves Jeff Sessions to be attorney general
Attorney General-designate, Sen. Jeff Sessions, is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2017, prior to testifying at his confirmation hearing. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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Wednesday, February 01, 2017 12:32PM
WASHINGTON --
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved the nomination of Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general after angry exchanges between Republicans and Democrats.
The 11-9 vote was along party lines. All the panel's Democrats voted against the nomination.
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The Alabama Republican is expected to be confirmed by the full Senate. Republicans have been strongly supportive of their colleague, arguing that he will follow the law and maintain traditional independence from President Donald Trump, if needed.
Democrats have expressed doubts that he would be able to say no to the president since he was one of his earliest and strongest defenders in the presidential campaign.
They also expressed concerns about whether Sessions would be committed to civil rights, a chief priority of the Obama administration.
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Trump's Gorsuch pick assures integrity of America's elections process
By J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 02/01/17 06:21 AM EST
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President Donald Trump’s pick of Neil Gorsuch to succeed the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia shows the rule of law is back in style. Gorsuch considers the Constitution a document that limits the power of government, not as a mere suggestion to be argued around. For that, Trump’s pick is delightfully restorative.
The Gorsuch pick came just in time. A mix of cases are heading to the Supreme Court and will impact the federal design over elections. From voter ID to redistricting to obligations to keep clean voter rolls, the Court is primed to decide how we vote in the 21st century.
In an array of voter ID cases, the Court may decide if the treasured Voting Rights Act has morphed into a tool not to protect civil rights, but to protect the interests of Democrats. North Carolina enacted measures designed to preserve the integrity of elections, including voter ID and limits on the registration of voters on Election Day before their eligibility could be verified. Newfangled theories of the Voting Rights Act led one appeals court to graft disparate impact tests onto the law that formerly required actual victims of racial discrimination in order to win a case.
That appeal is now moving toward an evenly divided Supreme Court — divided no more when Gorsuch is confirmed.
Make no mistake, Gorsuch will be confirmed.
The vacancy on the court drove Catholic and evangelical Protestants to the polls in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Iowa. The prospect of picking a man like Neil Gorsuch was a prime mover behind Trump winning the White House. The Republicans will win this fight even if they must use the nuclear option.
Neil Gorsuch is Trump’s grandest promise to a supportive electorate and will not be stopped.
Naturally, the Washington establishment will be reflexively opposed to Gorsuch. One former Justice Department colleague of Gorsuch told me, “he understands that the radical expansion of the federal bureaucracy is reaching and often exceeding its permissible limits, and that deference to that bureaucracy is frequently unwarranted. He is the dream of conservative thinkers and will bring great honor to the Court.”
When it comes to how states run their own elections, Gorsuch should be refreshing. Consider how states ensure non-citizens aren’t registering to vote. The court may hear if states can ensure only citizens are voting — again.
In 2013, the court held that states could petition the federal commission that creates the federal voter registration forms to include state citizenship rules. In that ruling, the late Justice Scalia paved the way for states to verify citizenship, but the Obama Justice Department lawlessly interfered and blocked these efforts — going so far to as refusing to defend the independent federal agency that had approved state citizenship verification. Sound familiar?
A federal appeals court sided with the Obama DOJ and left states unable to verify citizenship of voters using the federal forms in the 2016 election.
Ohio has been blocked from removing inactive voters from the rolls, another issue that is working its way to the Supreme Court. In 2012, Cincinnati election official Melowese Richardson exploited bad voter rolls and cast four ballots for President. The power of Ohio to keep rolls clean, amazingly, is a case the Court may decide after Gorsuch is confirmed.
Despite warnings from the court that race cannot be the “predominant” factor when drawing legislative lines, we have seen quite the opposite.
The Voting Rights Act has been leveraged by the Obama DOJ and activist groups to pack racial minorities into ink blot jurisdictions to distribute partisan advantage. Radical new theories of civil rights have emerged in these legislative plans, such “black-brown” political coalitions being entitled to legislative seats under the Voting Rights Act. These new tools to bolster Democratic Party power using civil rights litigation will also reach the Court.
Race, power, federalism, state sovereignty and more race. This is the battlespace that makes elections and how they are run a year-round fight in the courts, not just something experienced on Election Day. Neil Gorsuch, unlike the nominees of the previous president, has a sensitivity to the unique, precious and delicate compromise that created the greatest constitution the world has ever seen.
J. Christian Adams the President and General Counsel for the Public Interest Legal Foundation and a former Justice Department lawyer.
The views of contributors are their own and are not the views of The Hill
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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Trump Cabinet Nominees Obstructed; Will Senate Dems Filibuster Trump's Supreme Court Nominee?
Law Professors and Lawyers for Trump/Pence
In 2018 Midterm Elections, Trump Voters Will Make Senate Democrats Pay a High Price for Confirmation Obstruction-- Particularly for a Supreme Court Filibuster.
BETHESDA, MARYLAND, USA, January 31, 2017 /EIN Presswire.com/ -- In an unprecedented break with our constitutional order and Senate tradition, Democrats have slow-walked Donald Trump’s exceptionally well qualified cabinet nominees. The Senate has yet to confirm nominees for Secretary of State, Attorney General, Treasury Secretary, Commerce Secretary, Labor Secretary, Energy Secretary, or Interior Secretary. Other nominations are also being purposely slow-walked. Democrats are thus obstructing the presidential transition.
Representing a group of pro-Trump law professors and lawyers, Professor Victor Williams recently sent a letter to Senate leadership urging swift confirmation action for all Trump's pending and future nominees
President Trump is now adding a U.S. Supreme Court nominee to his list of choices. Will Senate Democrats also slow-walk and obstruct a SCOTUS nominee? Will Democrats dare attempt a filibuster of Trump's SCOTUS choice?
While a Senate filibuster process is no longer allowed for executive and lower court judges confirmation votes, the filibuster -- requiring a 60-vote super majority vote end debate -- still applies to Supreme Court justice confirmation votes.
If the Senate Democrats' confirmation obstruction of Trump's cabinet nominees offers any indication, the Trump movement may be a long hard fight ahead to fill Justice Antonin Scalia's empty seat on the nine justice bench.
But today Professor Williams warns that Senate Democrats will pay a high price in the 2018 midterm elections for continued obstruction particularly if they attempt a filibuster of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.
Williams believes that the Democratic obstruction of Trump's cabinet nominees bears closer inspection and more public scrutiny.
President Trump entered the second week of his administration with only two department heads confirmed. Then Elaine Chou won Senate approval as Transportation Secretary bringing the total to three. It is now almost three months after the election and Obama appointees continue to govern as holdovers. The transition obstruction is unprecedented.
Senate Democrats will pay a high price in the 2018 midterm elections for continued obstruction particularly if they attempt a filibuster of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.”
— Victor Williams, Chair of Law Professors & Lawyers for Trump
Williams explains that Bill Clinton had 13 department-head confirmations by the day after his January 20.1993 inauguration. Republican senators fully cooperated with Democrats to confirm seven Barack Obama cabinet nominees by his January 20, 2009 inauguration with many more Obama nominees confirmed just days afterward. The past six presidents have begun their first terms with a functioning cabinet – on average, each beginning with 10 cabinet confirmations.
In contrast, it is Obama administration holdovers who remain in charge of many executive departments and agencies across the federal government. One such Obama holdover, “acting” Attorney General Sally Yates publicly questioned the legitimacy of President Trump’s extreme-vetting executive order. Williams asserts:
“Yates could have quietly resigned rather than enforce a law with which she had strong political disagreement. Instead she publicly directed all Justice Department lawyers not to defend the law in court. Yates questioned President Trump’s motivation in implementing the law.”
"President Trump was reserved in stating that Yates had “betrayed” the Justice Department when he fired her. Worse than insubordination by sore-loser Democrat partisan, the Obama appointee’s act was close to a de facto challenge to the presidential transition."
Meanwhile, Senate Democrats continue to slow-walk Attorney General nominee Sen. Jeff Sessions’ confirmation. And Senate Finance Committee Democrats boycotted confirmation proceedings for HHS nominee Rep. Tom Price and Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin. The boycott delayed the scheduled committee votes by denying a committee quorum.
Williams states:
“Senate Democrats’ obstruction of President Trump’s nominees conflicts with our established constitutional order. In 2017 the strongest support for speedy confirmation of Donald Trump’s judicial, administration, and regulatory appointment choices is found in the 1787 U.S. Constitution — its text, structure, and history.”
Article II, Section 2 charges the Executive alone with fulsome appointment choice while explicitly limiting the Senate’s role to a simple-majority ratification vote. Our Constitution’s Framers explicitly and purposely granted the president broad appointment discretion.
Williams has actively supported the appointment discretion of the past three presidents without regard to their political party including appointments by President Obama. He was the only law professor in the nation to file a SCOTUS amicus brief to support Obama’s recess appointment actions in the NLRB v. Noel Canning adjudication.
Williams states: “Although I have advocated for the appointment discretion of both Democratic and Republican presidents, I often personally disagreed with of their choices. Still I supported their confirmations. The Constitution’s must always trump party and ideology.”
Agreeing with “America First” positions of President Trump’s choices, Professor Williams adds that he is particularly honored to support those exceptional nominees: “Just consider the incredible talents of Rex Tillerson, Wilbur Ross, Jeff Sessions, Steven Mnuchin, James Mattis, Tom Price, Elaine Chou, Andy Pudzer, John Kelly, Ryan Zinke, and other nominees.”
Again Williams warns that Senate Democrats will pay a high political price in the 2018 midterm election for a continued pattern of confirmation obstruction. Several Democrats up for reelection are from states that Trump solidly won.
The Trump movement will be watching to see how quickly the Senate confirms President Trump’s Supreme Court choice and his future nominees to fill over 100 empty lower federal court benches, other top executive posts, and independent regulatory agencies.
Even an attempted Democrat filibuster of Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee will quickly become the centerpiece of 2018 Senate elections.
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Longtime Washington, D.C. attorney and law professor Victor Williams was an early primary supporter of Donald Trump. (His support included mounting a disruptive legal action against Ted Cruz.) In July 2016, Williams launched “Lawyers and Law Professors for Trump” (www.goplawyers.com) for the general election. The group is now being transformed into, and re-branded as, an advocacy platform to support the Trump/Pence “America First” administration.
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