Posted on 10/18/2022 12:53:52 PM PDT by cotton1706
WASHINGTON — As President Joe Biden races to install federal judges, Alaska Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan are taking vastly different approaches.
Of Biden's 84 federal judge appointees, Murkowski has voted in favor of 64. Sullivan has voted for none.
Biden is rapidly nominating judges to counterbalance Trump's volume of appointees to the federal bench. At this point in his presidency, Biden is on par with Trump's fast pace. The Senate Judiciary Committee is scrambling to approve more judges before the next congressional term, when the balance may shift in favor of Republican
The judicial process has become increasingly polarized in recent years, and like most Senate Republicans, Sullivan tends to vote the party line. Murkowski represents a rare exception of a senator willing to routinely break with her party on judicial votes. While she has said she rejects what she has called the "corrosive politicization" of the confirmation process, during Biden's time in office, Murkowski has become a key vote to watch on judicial nominees.
Murkowski and Sullivan both voted for nearly all of former President Donald Trump's over 230 federal judicial appointments — with a notable exception for Murkowski in the case of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, something her Republican election challenger Kelly Tshibaka has criticized her for.
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Murkowski likes to help out her buddies, the Democrats.
But recall when Trump was president, Democrats voted in lockstep, requiring cloture votes on EVERY nominee, and then voting in lockstep 'nay' on nearly every nominee.
Until we find out who’s really running the White House and making nominations the Senate should just stop approving any and all nominees for any position whatsoever.
Murkowski is trying to appeal to her base.
MurktheCow needs to be defeated in November. Kelly will be great in Alaska...
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