On Tuesday, Baldwin urged senators to oppose Brennan and decried Republican leaders bending the rules to push him through. He’s argued that no single senator should have the power to halt a Circuit Court nomination. “My view is that no one senator ought to be able to stop a circuit judge,” McConnell said Thursday to conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt. GOP senators routinely abused blue slips to block Obama’s court picks, to a level of absurdity. Now that a Republican is in the White House, McConnell wants to prevent Democrats from using the same tool.

Source: Huffington Post May 08, 2018 23:26 UTC