“I have nothing but respect for Sen. Feinstein,” Graham said, “but once (Democrats) changed the rules on circuit courts – they did it, not me – to expect that the blue slip system would survive is pretty naïve.”
President Donald Trump’s choices for three seats on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals set up a confirmation battle that could become a test of wills between the Senate Judiciary Committee’s leading Democrat, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, and its new Republican Chairman Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.
The result could shape the San Francisco-based court and the Senate confirmation process for years to come.
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