One of the legal experts on Fox this morning discussed how one of the most important wins from this election will be the ability of the GOP Senate to block anymore of Obama’s Leftist, Liberal federal judge appointments and pack the courts further.
Obama’s Judicial Nominees: Liberals Are Upset With Them, Too
By Mike Dorning May 01, 2014
President Obama has answered Democrats’ calls for a federal judiciary that looks more like America. As of April he had named more black, Hispanic, Asian, and openly gay judges, as well as more women, than any of his predecessors. And after a slow start in making judicial nominations and years of Republican obstruction, he surpassed the number of federal judges George W. Bush had appointed at the same point in his presidency—thanks in part to a rule Senate Democrats pushed through last year that ended use of the filibuster to block nominees. Obama has filled 238 federal court seats, and Democratic appointees now make up the majority of active-status jurists on 9 of the 13 U.S. appeals courts, vs. one when he took office.
Yet some Democratic activists, while praising the president’s diversity efforts, have a new complaint: His picks for the federal bench aren’t liberal enough. These critics are encouraging the president to appoint nominees who will tilt the ideological balance of the federal bench to the left—offsetting the hundreds of young, conservative judges Bush picked over eight years.
June 14, 2013: Announcing nominations to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Problem is, they won't.
In fact, it sounds like McConnell is in surrender mode already, if TIME magazine is to be believed.
I don't think the Republicans grasp what has happened to them. Obama nationalized the elections when he declared that his policies were on the ballot, and US voters gave the GOP one last chance to do something constructive. If the Republicans blow it, they cease to be a legitimate political party in the US.
The Senate, R or not, has never effectively blocked radical leftist judges from being appointed. There are far to many McCains, Grahams etc who hide behind collegiality and Senatorialness. Zero will get whatever he wants in judges, so long as he doesn’t do something stupid like appoint Eric Holder or Susan Rice to the bench. He just has to stick to ordinary radical leftists without a public profile.