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    Federal judge stops Granite City from evicting 2 families that filed civil rights lawsuits Archived Message

    Posted by Riverbender on October 13, 2019, 9:03 pm

    and the Judge was not only an Obama appointment Harry Reid and the rest of the Democrats rammed her appointment to the judgeship.
    Forget that crime free ordinance silliness and let Granite become the true blue city for the Democrats as it has always been.
    Based upon this decision perhaps as a budgetary move perhaps Officer Gagich should be fired and the savings from his salary be used to try to better fund the underfunded pension fund's there in Granite.

    Per wiki "On January 16, 2014, President Obama nominated Yandle to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois, to the seat being vacated by Judge John Phil Gilbert, who took senior status on March 15, 2014.[5] She received a hearing before the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary on March 12, 2014.[6] On April 3, 2014 her nomination was reported out of committee by a vote of 17–1.[7] On June 12, 2014, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for a motion to invoke cloture on the nomination. On Monday, June 16, 2014 the United States Senate voted 55–37 on the motion to invoke cloture.[8] On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 The United States Senate voted 52–44 in favor of final confirmation.[9] She received her judicial commission on June 19, 2014.[3] Yandle was invested as a member of the court on August 21, 2014.[10]


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