President Trump is a fighter and why should Feinstein expect any courtesies after her despicable conduct in the Kavanaugh nomination process?

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While President Donald Trump has had unprecedented success in reshaping the judiciary by placing two justices on the Supreme Court and a record breaking 29 judges on federal appeals courts, he believes he has been stymied by what he considers the liberal bent of the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals. It's a powerful court headquartered in San Francisco that has jurisdiction over nine West Coast states and two territories.

Now the President is taking the gloves off, hoping to eventually flip that court.

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Although vacancies on the court have existed for months, the White House has waited nearly two years to put nominees forward to fill the open California seats.

This was likely partly out of deference to Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who is one of two home state senators and also serves as the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. But it's also because White House Counsel Don McGahn and Feinstein went back and forth for months hoping to come to an agreement, to no avail.

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The White House this week announced three new nominees -- Patrick J. Bumatay, Daniel P. Collins and Kenneth Kiyul Lee -- for the California seats on the 9th Circuit.

Feinstein didn't miss a beat to express her outrage.

"The White House moved forward without consulting me," she fumed in a news release. She noted that she had met with McGahn on June 27 to discuss vacancies and express reservations about Lee and Collins. And that she had sent a letter in October recommending three potential nominees, Lucy Koh, Andrew Guilford and Boris Feldman.

"I was acting in good faith," she said and added that she hoped her "blue slips" would be honored.

She referred to the Senate's longtime custom of honoring a home state senator's objection to a nominee by submitting a "blue slip" to torpedo the nomination.

"The decision to move forward with these nominees without consultation," she said "reflects President Trump's desire to remake the court."

But Grassley said in a statement last November that the blue slip courtesy had been treated differently throughout the years and he did not feel a "negative or unreturned" blue slip would necessarily prevent a hearing for an appeals court nominee unless the White House failed to consult with home state senators.

That is the reason, in his letter, that McGahn stressed his attempts at meeting with the home state senators.

"While Grassley has moved forward several circuit court nominees without their home state senator's blue slips, doing so to the ranking member of the committee would be a dramatic escalation and slap in the face," said Christopher Kang, chief counsel of a group called Demand Justice that opposes the President's nominees.

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The other CA Senator Kamala Harris has been completely uncooperative and Feinstein has been totally obstinate. Plus, as I said, she no longer deserves any WH courtesies.

The Dems have treated past traditions of no consequence when it comes to their objectives. Why should the President? Go Trump!