# Obama vetting Iowa judge Jane Kelly for Supreme Court

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vetting-iowa-judge-jane-kelly-for-supreme-court/747776>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [March 2, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vetting-iowa-judge-jane-kelly-for-supreme-court/747776 "2016-03-02T23:06:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vetting-iowa-judge-jane-kelly-for-supreme-court/747776/1 "2016-03-02T23:06:10Z")

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Obama knows how to play politics with the Republicans. Iowa senator Chuck Grassley, who is up for reelection, is the chairman of the judiciary committee. The Des Moines Register recently came out against the refusal to consider Obama’s Supreme Court nominee. First a Republican governor who happens to be Hispanic , now an Iowa judge, who happens to be a woman.

> **[White House Is Said to Be Vetting Iowa Judge for Supreme Court Seat...](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/03/us/politics/white-house-vetting-jane-kelly-judge-supreme-court.html)**
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> Jane L. Kelly, a public defender turned judge in Iowa, won quick and unanimous confirmation by the Senate three years ago to her current post.

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**Author:** ![Fiveyearlurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@Fiveyearlurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiveyearlurker)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vetting-iowa-judge-jane-kelly-for-supreme-court/747776/2 "2016-03-02T23:10:26Z")

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I hope he spends the next four weeks floating names like this and making the GOP release ever more statements that they won’t even consider them.

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**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vetting-iowa-judge-jane-kelly-for-supreme-court/747776/3 "2016-03-02T23:10:32Z")

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The GOP really did hand him a “fuck with us for free” card when they said they wouldn’t even consider anyone he proposed, didn’t they?

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2016, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-vetting-iowa-judge-jane-kelly-for-supreme-court/747776/4 "2016-03-02T23:40:47Z")

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More pressure on Grassley as an Iowa group will deliver 6000 copies of the constitution to his office. [http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/271556-iowa-coalition-to-deliver-copies-of-constitution-to-grassleys-offices](http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/271556-iowa-coalition-to-deliver-copies-of-constitution-to-grassleys-offices)