Hillary Clinton calls Senate judicial confirmation process 'absolutely broken'
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Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in an interview on Sunday called the Senate judicial confirmation process “absolutely broken,” as Republicans move to fill the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat on the Supreme Court.
Clinton told NBC News’s “Meet the Press" that the system “has been broken for quite a while,” adding that the Republican effort to fill the vacancy is “another blow to our institutions.”
“What’s happening in our country is incredibly dangerous,” she said.
“Our institutions are being basically undermined by the lust for power – power for personal gain in the case of the president or power for institutional gain in the case of – at the cost of ensuring that our institutions withstand whatever the political winds might be,” the former secreta... (Read more)
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