{"id":8759,"date":"2002-10-09T17:38:42","date_gmt":"2002-10-09T22:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/10\/09\/leahy-sheds-shedd\/"},"modified":"2002-10-09T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2002-10-09T22:38:42","slug":"leahy-sheds-shedd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/10\/leahy-sheds-shedd\/","title":{"rendered":"Leahy sheds Shedd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>&#8220;I am hurt and disappointed by this egregious act of<br \/>\ndestructive politics. Chairman Leahy assured me on numerous occasions that Judge<br \/>\nShedd would be given a vote. I took him at his word,&#8221; Thurmond<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Leahy removed the nomination of Judge Dennis Shedd of South<br \/>\nCarolina to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals from the committee&#8217;s agenda<br \/>\nTuesday, Republicans say, in violation of Senate rules.<\/font> [<font\ncolor=#3333ff><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=%5CPolitics%5Carchive%5C200210%5CPOL20021009c.html\">Full<br \/>\nstory<\/a><\/font>]<\/p>\n<p>99 years old and he was foolish enough to take the word<br \/>\nof a Senate Democrat? Doesn&#8217;t he know that they will lie and cheat to make sure<br \/>\nthat we have only judges that are free from the constraints of actually<br \/>\nfollowing the Constitution? Abortion must be preserved at all costs by the<br \/>\ncurrent Democratic Party. Quite ironic that the Democratic Party prevents a<br \/>\ndemocratic vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I am hurt and disappointed by this egregious act of destructive politics. Chairman Leahy assured me on numerous occasions that Judge Shedd would be given a vote. I took him&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}