All posts tagged "Lindsay Graham"

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) plans to block Democratic legislation to institute ethics reforms at the Supreme Court, vowing he "will object."

According to NBC News, "The South Carolina senator's comments come after Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said earlier on Tuesday that he would make a unanimous consent request to pass Supreme Court ethics legislation that the panel advanced last July. The South Carolina Republican's objection means the bill will not be able to move forward because any senator can block a request."

Legislation blocked in such a way cannot advance without 60 votes to move for cloture on a filibuster, which would require nine Republicans to join all Democrats....

Nancy Mace, a Charleston, South Carolina business leader and first-ever woman graduate of the Citadel, has announced that she is running in the South Carolina primary against current South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R). According to the Washington Post's "Post Politics" blog, Mace and South Carolina state Sen. Lee Bright are both entering the race to run against Graham.

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[rebelmouse-image 24749627 original_size="600x400" expand=1]This week, I was doing some research on the surge in rhetoric about repealing the 14th amendment for the podcast,* and I have to admit that even I was astounded to hear how Fox News' preferred nomenclature for people who immigrate here without going through the green card/citizenship channels is "illegals". Just "illegals". Not "illegal immigrants", and of course not "undocumented immigrants" or "undocumented workers".

Via Atrios, Craig Crawford shoots and scores, when discussing the reprehensible behavior of Senate Republicans towards Sonia Sotomayor, particularly Lindsay Graham's.