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Senator Bob Casey Really Doesn't Want This Guy To Be A Federal Judge

The Twitter thread tells the real story.

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Say what you will about the blue slip process for nominating federal judges, but the Trump administration’s doing away with the longstanding process has not been met with acclaim in liberal political circles. So when David Porter was pushed forward as a nominee for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit — without the all clear from democratic senator Bob Casey — you could probably imagine he’d be pissed.

Casey fancies himself as a middle-of-the-road, pragmatic kind of senator. But Porter is so far out of the mainstream, that not only did Casey withhold the blue slip, he also went on Twitter to express his outrage at the nomination. If Twitter is good enough for the President to issue official changes in policy on, it’s certainly good enough for Casey to vent on.

Behold the senatorial ire:

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Casey is far from the only senator who doesn’t want to see Porter become a federal judge. During Wednesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) took him to task for his association with a group committed to stopping Sonia Sotomayor’s ascension to the Supreme Court — one Porter derides as amounting to little more than a brief phone call — as well as his efforts to stack the federal judiciary with right-wing judges, as Biglaw Business reports:

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Porter has been a “leader in the right wing strategy to stack the federal courts” with like-minded judges, and he helped co-found the Pennsylvania Judicial Network in 2009, Feinstein said.

And it probably won’t surprise you, but Porter refused to say whether he agreed with Brown v. Board of Education.

Despite the concerns, Porter is expected to be confirmed.

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