Posted on 01/18/2018 6:06:56 PM PST by SMGFan
‘Advice’ dwindles in the GOP’s rush for judges
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans hardly could have done more last year to help President Donald Trump reshape the nation’s federal courts with conservative appointees.
They put Justice Neil Gorsuch in a Supreme Court seat, one they blocked Barack Obama from filling during his last year in the White House. Then they approved a dozen Trump picks for the influential appeals courts that have the final say on the vast majority of the nation’s legal disputes — a record number for a president’s first year in office.
Against the backdrop of an otherwise lackluster year of legislation and an onslaught of political drama from the West Wing and Trump’s Twitter feed, somehow the long-dysfunctional judicial confirmation process emerged as a relatively functional part of Washington.
But to help Trump accomplish that feat, the White House and Senate Republicans further changed the game on confirmations. They brushed aside or relaxed long-standing customs meant to give senators more say — and more sway — in who gets lifetime tenure as a federal judge. And Senate Republicans start 2018 intent on further streamlining the process to fill more than 120 vacancies on federal district courts.
(Excerpt) Read more at rollcall.com ...
As if the Democrats in Congress never “steam-rolled”
They held up Estrada, Brown, and others. But the Dems can do as they please. If Republicans displease Dems in the slightest, up goes the media wail.
Nothing will ever make up for what democrats did to Robert Bork. Instead of a staunch constitutionalist, we got Kennedy who has been the swing vote in one horrible decision after another, including of course, homosexual marriage.
We need some decent judges to counterbalance all the lunatics that the Kenyanesian Usurper appointed.
Hey rollcall, TS. Elections do have consequences.
Wonderful news!
The Republicans offered exactly the same deal to the Democrats as they offered the Republicans in 2013.
The Democrats refused - they are holding over 60 judicial nominees hostage, while in 2013 the Republicans were blocking only 20.
I’m hoping (probably unrealistic, but who knows, I could be surprised) that once Trump lays out the case against 0vomit (treason, ineligible for the office, etc, etc, etc) that most of his actions while in the office will be undone. Especially his SCOTUS appointments. They should all be removed. They are as illegal as the person who put them there.
Personally, I’d be satisfied if all of 0vomit’s appointees “decided to resign”. wink, wink.
Winning!
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