Business Insider: McConnell calls for ending Senate tradition that gives Democrats with leverage on Trump's judicial nominees
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday told The New York Times that he thinks the "blue slip" practice should be scrapped for circuit court nominations, a move that would eliminate Democrats' only leverage against President Donald Trump's picks to the nation's second-highest courts
GOP planned their
grand gerrymander
a bet they'd never be
ever again in the minority
as Scarlet said, "Fiddle-dee-dee"
where fiddling's concerned
I hear-tell Donald's learned
just a little
to bow and to fiddle
welcome "home"
to Nero's Rome
[Updated September 14, 2017, 6:00 p.m.]
