We can't have the citizens expecting too many actual results.
They could have 50 judges added or elevated in the time they're going to spend pi$$ing around.
TIME is NOT a bankable commodity!!!
I’m not so sure.
Mitch and Grassley did a good job on judges considering the thin margin in the Senate plus having McCain and Flake and the two girls for the prior two years.
That may be the reason this rule wasn’t already changed.
Mitch would rather fumble around than spend the next 6 weeks running judicial nominees through the Senate.
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Yep, already 10.6% of this calendar year’s days have already been wasted and he has made MINIMUM progress.
The Senate and President Trump need to get cracking to QUICKLY fill the MANY VACANCIES on US federal judgeships. Today there are 149 actual judicial vacancies including 96 still awaiting President Trump’s submittal of a replacement nominee.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies
And there are 21 other judgeships where near-future vacancy announcements (e.g., retirements & “senior status”) have already been made. These also need nominations in the pipeline.
https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/future-judicial-vacancies
I hope McConnell, President Trump and Lindsey Graham (the new Judiciary Committee Chairman) give the effort to fill these 170 judgeships the URGENCY it needs. And, of course, new vacancies accrue regularly through deaths and new retirement announcements.