“In pre-Trump Washington where the old rules applied, Rudy Giuliani could never survive the Senate confirmation process.” ProcessTrumpSenateConfirmationRudy Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Rudy Giuliani would bring conflicts of interest into any Senate confirmation hearing that would be impossible to clear if confirmation hearings operate under the same gravitational forces that they used to in the pre-Trump era.” IfsWould BeUsedForceInterestClearImpossibleTrumpConflictHearingErasSenateConfirmationConflict Of InterestRudy Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“The question for the Republicans running the confirmation hearings in the United States Senate is whose rules are they going to use?” StatesUseRunningUnitedUnited StatesRepublicanHearingSenateConfirmation Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“According to the old rules, Senator Jeff Sessions could not be confirmed by the United States Senate because in fact he wasn`t.” StatesFactsUnitedUnited StatesSenateSenatorsSession Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“When Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions for federal district court judgeship, the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected his nomination.” CourtSenateRejectedCommitteesSessionNominationsJudiciary Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“Strom Thurmond, the former segregationist candidate for president was the Republican Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1986 and he tried to get Jeff Sessions` nomination through that committee, but he couldn`t.” PresidentRepublicanFormerCandidatesSenateCommitteesSessionChairmanNominationsJudiciary Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
“He addressed a black lawyer as "boy". That`s why Jeff Sessions couldn`t get through Senate confirmation process under the old rules followed by Democrats and Republicans.” ProcessBlackBoysRepublicanDemocratLawyerSenateSessionConfirmation Author:Lawrence O'Donnell
