Senate GOP Blocks Judicial Nomination

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The vote Monday (July 30) in the U.S. Senate was 56-34, with three voting “present” and seven not voting.

Excerpt from The Hill:

Senate Republicans blocked a vote on the nomination of Robert Bacharach to be a U.S. circuit judge for the Tenth Circuit court in Oklahoma on Monday because they said it violated an election-year practice.

The 56-34-3 vote came despite previously-stated support of Bacharach from the Oklahoma Republican Sens. Tom Coburn and James Inhofe. They chose not to vote against what their party leadership urged, instead they voted present. Sixty votes were needed to clear the proceedural hurdle. 

Dan Akaka and Dan Inouye voted in the affirmative for Bacharach.

—Chad Blair

Photo courtesy Senator Mark Warner.

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