#thurmond_rule

Thurmond rule

Controversial US Senate majority-party strategem to stop judicial approval votes

The Thurmond rule in U.S. politics posits that, at some point in a U.S. presidential election year, the U.S. Senate should not confirm the president's nominees to the federal judiciary, except under certain circumstances. The basic premise is that the President and the Senate majority usually are of opposite political ideologies, and as such the Judiciary Committee will not allow an appointee to receive a floor vote from the entire Senate during a presidential election year.

Wed 27th

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