Another day, another breach of rules in the Senate.
Donald Trump is having another rally tonight, and he needed some material, so Lindsay Graham was only to happy to provide it for him.
Ben Orlebeke (yeah, I don’t know him either, but the thread looks okay and Emptywheel went with it) live-tweeted. Here are the highlights of his thread.
GOP Senators laughing and checking phones while Senator Feinstein protests Graham breaking SJC and Senate rules to push through a vicious, partisan immigration bill designed to please Trump.
— Ben Orlebeke (@ben_orlebeke) August 1, 2019
Multiple rules are being broken in the process. Notably, no Democratic chair has ever broken one of these rules. GOP has three times, but never before for legislation.
— Ben Orlebeke (@ben_orlebeke) August 1, 2019
This bill would, among other things, would eliminate the Flores settlement, thus allowing for indefinite detention of children.
— Ben Orlebeke (@ben_orlebeke) August 1, 2019
Graham is very good about sounding somewhat reasonable, but then leaves the room and walks back whatever reasonable sounding thing he said.
— Ben Orlebeke (@ben_orlebeke) August 1, 2019
Leahy is pointing out that only one party breaks the committee rules.
— Ben Orlebeke (@ben_orlebeke) August 1, 2019
Senator Leahy tears up a copy of the rules, says they're meaningless now.
— Ben Orlebeke (@ben_orlebeke) August 1, 2019
Graham accuses Dems of refusing to work with him. Dems have filed over 100 amendments to this bill, some of which drawn directly from the 2013 CIR.
— Ben Orlebeke (@ben_orlebeke) August 1, 2019
Graham pitching his bill as being necessary to vote on immediately because it would fix the border crisis. It would not.
— Ben Orlebeke (@ben_orlebeke) August 1, 2019
Lots of Republicans walking out. Everyone but Cruz, Kennedy, and Graham so far.
— Ben Orlebeke (@ben_orlebeke) August 1, 2019
This is a remarkable possibility: that Lindsey Graham broke four rules of SJC to pass a bill authorizing concentration camps in time for Trump's rally tonight. https://t.co/o06SptJaSv
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) August 1, 2019
Lindsey Graham calls for a vote on an asylum bill before Judiciary Committee Democrats speak, via CSPAN.
Graham: "The clerk will call the roll."
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Feinstein: "You're breaking the rules of the Committee … Mr. Chairman, this is unprecedented." pic.twitter.com/3nITYIQ6qE— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 1, 2019
I see that some folks are making hashtags with Russian cities added to Republican names, in the manner of #MoscowMitch. So there seems to be #LeningradLindsey, but that’s anachronistic and not really relevant. I prefer #LackeyLindsey.
Open thread!