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09/21/20 3:06 PM

#353584 RE: BullNBear52 #353573

The alternative pick is Barbara Lagoa. It will help in FL.

You forgot to mention Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas.

And I think it would be very difficult for Democrats to "beat up" on a Latino woman. In fact..........

She was overwhelmingly confirmed to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals late last year. The final tally was 80-15 in favor. Senate Democrats voted to confirm her by nearly a two-to-one margin. The following Democratic members of the judiciary committee supported her confirmation: Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chris Coons (D-DE), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Pat Leahy (D-VT), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI). That's right, the four most senior Democrats on the committee voted Yea, as did Hillary Clinton's 2016 running mate. The only Democratic member of the committee who voted against her was Mazie Hirono (several others who were busy running for president did not vote). Also, every GOP senator voted in the affirmative, including Collins and Murkowski. Democrats will stomp their feet and say "but the Supreme Court is different!" Fine. But it's awfully hard to frame a nominee as dangerously radical and extreme when a large majority of your own party recently backed her confirmation to another powerful federal court. This is a serious asset for Lagoa. Her nomination could be framed as a more consensus and 'moderate' pick, which could raise the odds of a successful confirmation under difficult, high-pressure conditions.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2020/09/21/the-case-for-barbara-lagoa-n2576544