Post #4
I always like to post this when we are talking judges.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/9/20962980/trump-supreme-court-federal-judges
No matter how much it hurts sometimes you just have to give it up for Mitch.
“No matter how much it hurts sometimes you just have to give it up for Mitch.”
I’m sure most people here either don’t know or don’t remember, but one of the things that made life a bitch for Republican presidents was trying to judges confirmed. Much of the time, they had to deal with a Democrat Senate (at least half of the time, starting with Reagan and ending with Bush Jr.) and the Democrats simply let many judgeships lapse rather than confirming conservative nominees. For Reagan and Bush Jr., that was the last two years of their terms - very little movement on judges. For Bush Sr., that was his entire term. Then, in 2 of these 3 cases, a Democrat president would follow, and guess what - the slots got filled. 90% of the country had no clue as to what was going on, as it wasn’t sexy and the media had no reason to report it.
Then you also had the stupid blue-slip rule and the filibuster, all held over from a time when Senators actually talked to each other and more or less, would not openly oppose on ideology (Bork was more an exception than a rule), so there was some very slow movement on judges for conservatives.
Today’s Democrats in the Senate simply will NEVER allow any judge they wouldn’t have picked to move. To them holding hostage the judiciary is fair game, since those are the old rules. McConnell had done GREAT, and he’s had to deal with small or tiny majorities, often due to conservatives being happier with a Democrat Senator than a RINO...but now that he has a bit of breathing room (53 seats), and he’s packing the judges into our courts, as we see here.
The bottom line is that if the Dems win the Senate in 2020 and Trump wins the White House, then any judges being confirmed will have been picked by the DEMOCRATS, or might as well have been. For people that care about the future of the country, consider that consequences as you try to ‘teach the RINOs a lesson’ by not voting for them in November. You’re not hurting them...they’ll do fine with or without their Senate seat, you’re only hurting your own family, especially your kids.
You also have to thank Harry Reid for changing Senate rules to allow judicial confirmations by a mere majority, as opposed to a sixty vote super majority, as had been the practice for generations.