# Garland should just sit down and judge?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [March 31, 2016, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garland-should-just-sit-down-and-judge/750757 "2016-03-31T17:04:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/garland-should-just-sit-down-and-judge/750757/125 "2016-04-04T15:56:32Z")

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> [@YogSothoth](#):
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> Tell me the difference between denying a hearing and having a hearing and voting down the nominee

One is denying a hearing, and the other is having a hearing and voting the down the nominee. Was this supposed to be a trick? But you must have misunderstood. I’m highlighting the hypocrisy of praising legislators literally running away to deny a quorum with your claim that Democrats will do their jobs and give a fair hearing. Did you miss that part? Here’s what you said when the Democrats _ran away and hid:_

> [@Wisconsin orders arrest of missing Democrats. Legal?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wisconsin-orders-arrest-of-missing-democrats-legal/573396/51):
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> You’re not getting it. Their absence is the method by which they are fulfilling their legislative responsibilities. They are denying the Republicans the ability to pass an anti-union bill, which is probably what their constituents want them to do when they were elected. There are more ways of legislating than sitting in a chamber and voting.

Any attempt from you to criticize a filibuster or even denying a hearing is comical when you praise folks who run away and hide in an attempt to deny a quorum.

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