Subject: RE: FOR REVIEW: -- Senate Judiciary Misses Key Milestone Under GOP Obstruction
From: "Dillon, Lauren" <[email-masked]>
To: "Miranda, Luis" <[email-masked]>, "Freundlich, Christina" <[email-masked]>, "Walker, Eric" <[email-masked]>, "Walsh, Tom" <[email-masked]>, "Paustenbach, Mark" <[email-masked]>
Cc: RR2 <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 09:48:12 -0700

By fine I meant we'll check this version. Not fine as in it has been approved. The team will respond.

From: Dillon, Lauren
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 12:47 PM
To: Miranda, Luis; Freundlich, Christina; Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom; Paustenbach, Mark
Cc: RR2
Subject: RE: FOR REVIEW: -- Senate Judiciary Misses Key Milestone Under GOP Obstruction

This is fine but if you all could clean up statements/releases before they go to Research, we'd appreciate it. Sometimes all of the edits make them unruly to fact check.

Thank you!

From: Miranda, Luis
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 12:13 PM
To: Freundlich, Christina; Walker, Eric; Walsh, Tom; Paustenbach, Mark
Cc: RR2
Subject: FOR REVIEW: -- Senate Judiciary Misses Key Milestone Under GOP Obstruction

SL: Senate Judiciary Misses Key Milestone Under GOP Obstruction

It's been 44 days of Republican obstruction since President Obama nominated Chief Judge Garland to the Supreme Court, meaning that this week marked the average amount of time it takes the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold a hearing on a nominee to the Supreme Court. That's an unprecedented failure on the part of Republican Senators to do their job.

The Constitution is clear: it's the President's job to nominate Supreme Court justices, and it's the Senate's job to advise and consent, giving a nominee a fair consideration with a hearing and vote. Not in our modern political system has it taken this long to fulfill a Supreme Court vacancy, let alone refuse to give the nominee a fair hearing a vote.

Ironically, the obstruction comes as And yet, some Republican lawmakers are still refusing to acknowledge Trump<http://www.politico.com/story/2016/04/trump-gop-resistance-222551> as their standard bearer baron for the Republican party, even as he tightens his grip on the GOP nomination. It's striking that even as they tacitly acknowledge that Trump lacks the judgment and temperament to serve as President, the and the one they are waiting for to Republican Senators are refusing to do their own job in order to hand Trump the responsibility to nominate a Supreme Court justice.

That disconnect is party why the American people are increasingly opposed to the Republican obstruction, and want Republican Senators to do their job and allow a hearing and a vote.

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Republicans have chosen to play politics rather than do their jobs and fulfill the most basic constitutional requirements. The gridlock and dysfunction coming from Republicans in the Senate is exactly why the American people are tired of Washington. And their message couldn't be clearer: stop the obstruction and do your job.

[SigDems]<http://www.democrats.org/>Luis Miranda, Communications Director
Democratic National Committee
202-863-8148 - [email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]> - @MiraLuisDC<https://www.twitter.com/MiraLuisDC>