Gosh.
Maybe it’s because the Democrats make their fortunes in politics.
These attacks by the Democrats are not about ideology.
They are about money.
Money they think should come to them personally.
Lifetime judicial appointments should be term limited particularly when their removal becomes a complicated mess when ever attempted. All they are and do is create is a nobility and a possible over reaching Royalty this Republic should not have or need
What remains to be seen is whether this will get worse after President Trump’s reelection, or if the obstructionist dems will dejectedly concede defeat and return to some sense of historical normalcy. Odds are currently at greater than 900:1* that it’ll be the former.
* a stat that I just made up because it sounds about right to me.
Democrats have been short-circuiting the political process by imposing their will by judicial fiat.
We the people have no say when they redefine marriage or approve the killing of babies.
When Obama was elected, I personally thought the country was done for. I think the Communist Left thought the same thing and they thought that was good.
Trumps election shocked them and basically unhinged them. It surprised me too. Maybe there is a chance the country isn’t gone.
The Constitution was written in a time when dueling still took place. That was a check on some of the behavior we see these days. That was certainly an imperfect system, but it did have an impact on the willingness to engage in character assassination. Justices Kavanaugh and Thomas would be morally right in shooting several people .... in Minecraft, of course.
Nixon tasted this with Haynesworth and Carswell for the Supreme Court. This did not start in 1987.
The confirmation process, according to this author, has been ‘weaponized.’
Who are the weaponizers, the Republicans, the rats, a combination of both?
Democrats are corrupting the entire confirmation process by turning it into another front in their war against the president.
More than 40 percent of all Senate votes against confirmed judicial nominees since 1789 have been cast in the last 30 months against Trump nominees.
Those responsible no longer base their evaluation on the record of the nominees.
Today, the judges whose appointment Senate Democrats seek to prevent are defined less by the nominees’ own qualifications or merits than by the identity of the president who nominated them.
The average Trump nominee has faced 12 times the confirmation opposition as the average nominee of President John F. Kennedy to President Barack Obama.
Nearly 40 percent of all votes in American history to filibuster judicial nominees have occurred since Trump took office in January 2017.
This spike in Senate obstruction cannot be explained by any factor relevant to the confirmation process itself.
Trump’s judicial nominees receive comparable or better ratings from the American Bar Association than nominees of previous presidents.
These 10 Senate Democrats voted against an average of 4 percent of Bush’s judicial nominees but have voted against an average of 48 percent of Trump’s nominees.