{"id":363,"date":"2009-03-04T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/04\/gop-hypocrisy-on-judicial-appointments\/"},"modified":"2009-03-04T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T19:00:13","slug":"gop-hypocrisy-on-judicial-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/04\/gop-hypocrisy-on-judicial-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Hypocrisy on Judicial Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress has <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/03\/03\/gop-filibuster-letter\/\">a good post<\/a> on the hypocrisy of the GOP vis-a-vis the use of the filibuster.&#160; You\u2019ll recall that the GOP demanded an \u201cup or down vote\u201d on Bush\u2019s judicial nominees.<\/p>\n<p>Now, not so much.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But now that they are out of power and President Obama has the ability to appoint judges, Republicans are threatening a filibuster of judges if Obama doesn\u2019t appease them. In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judicialnetwork.com\/images\/Leahy_letter.pdf\">letter<\/a> to the White House yesterday, all 41 Senate Republicans \u201crequested that Obama respect the Senate\u2019s constitutional role in reviewing judicial nominees by seeking their consultation about potential nominees from their respective states.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think Progress has a good post on the hypocrisy of the GOP vis-a-vis the use of the filibuster.&#160; You\u2019ll recall that the GOP demanded an \u201cup or down vote\u201d on Bush\u2019s judicial nominees. Now, not so much. But now that they are out of power and President Obama has the ability to appoint judges, Republicans&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2009\/03\/04\/gop-hypocrisy-on-judicial-appointments\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}