The Senate Democratic leader plans to demand answers on Qatari influence in the United States and call for testimony from the attorney general.

For the most part, nominees aren’t subject to filibuster; the most that the Democrats can do is to slow the pace of approvals to a crawl, which they should have been doing from day 1. Next best time to do it for every nominee is today.

  • symbolic@infosec.pub
    59·
    1 day ago

    Fascism will surely be defeated by “slowing the nomination process”. Well, I guess it’s something. Sigh.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
      8·
      22 hours ago

      If the midterms were held tomorrow I think the GOP would lose their majority (in at least one chamber). They need time to implement policies and rules that will either make voting harder or outright pointless (state legislators have floated the idea of straight up overriding the votes of their citizens). They have lots of time to fuck shit up, but they need that time all the same.

      • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        12 hours ago

        If the midterms were held tomorrow I think the GOP would lose their majority (in at least one chamber)

        I dunno. I bet democrats could find a way to fuck things up between now and tomorrow.