For a guy who hates bureaucracy, Mitt Romney’s campaign sure had a lot of it. A new study by UNC-Chapel Hill professor Daniel Kreiss reveals that the Republican’s presidential campaign was drowning in oversight: Toward the end, even tasks as simple as sending a tweet required the approval of 22 different staffers.
A universe in which Trump is only up 7 in Kansas is not a universe in which he is doing well
Barrett’s nomination advanced out of the Judiciary Committee, setting up a Monday confirmation vote before the full Senate
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday voted to advance President Trump’s nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, with majority Republicans skirting the panel’s rules to recommend her confirmation as Democrats boycotted the session in protest.
The lopsided 12-to-0 outcome set up a vote by the full Senate to confirm Judge Barrett on Monday, a month to the day after President Trump nominated her to fill the seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. If all goes according to plan, Mr. Trump and his party would win a coveted achievement just eight days before the election.
“This is why we all run,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina and the chairman of the committee, said. “It’s moments like this that make everything you go through matter.”
Democrats, livid over the extraordinarily speedy process, spurned the committee vote altogether and forced Republicans to break their own rules to muscle through the nomination. Without the votes to block the judge in either the committee or the full Senate, though, their action was purely symbolic.
If you thought the president was going to drop this, you don’t know Trump
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