They could let Gorsuch go down, or they could go nuclear and reinterpret Rule 22 to exclude Supreme Court nominees.
Excluding new nominees, G.E. currently has 19 board members, 17 of whom are not employees of the company or have material ties to the company.
And while Affleck won best director he was, of course, excluded from the Oscar nominees, so that race has still has some bounce to the ounce.
A council of top church leaders selected a group of about 2,400 bishops and elite lay leaders to winnow the candidates down to three possible nominees, excluding any contender with a trace of controversy about him.
Many nominees appear to have been excluded for laudable reasons: their backgrounds as warlords or suspicions of corruption and incompetence.
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, their vice-presidential nominee, last weekend urged that the excluded military ballots be counted.
Discussions about things other than issues, like scheduling of breaks and the nominee's personal background, are excluded from these calculations.
After over a year of campaigning as the Libertarian Party nominee, Paul received very little media coverage, and was excluded from presidential debates.
In some years the presidential debate commission, a nonpartisan group, has excluded third- and fourth-party candidates so that the Democratic and Republican nominees can hold a more focused exchange of their views.
After a 50-year absence of district court judges on the high court, the president would do well to replace Justice Souter with a young and promising nominee with experience on the federal district court bench — this judge excluded.
