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Posted on 05/09/2017 6:27:15 AM PDT by libstripper
President Trump announced ten federal judicial nominees today. All of them will sail through the Senate. All of them will fill seats stolen from President Obama. There are over 120 vacancies in the federal judiciary, and Obama had nominated people to fill 81 of them.
But by the end of his two terms, 59 of those nominees were still in limbo, because Mitch McConnell’s Senate confirmed only 22.
This week, ten new nominees were announced to take their seats—as promised, mostly conservative firebrands picked by the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society—with many more sure to come. The Republicans’ strategy of unprecedented obstructionism has, once again, paid off in spades. If you think Judge Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court seat was stolen, well, here’s 59 more of them.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
The solution is to start impeaching and removing the most egregiously activist judges. Work out a balance, where minor violator keep their jobs but never get promoted and major violators get removed from office. We can make that work by removing the worst among judges.
YES!
LOL!!
LOL!! Wash your keyboard out with soap and call yourself “NaughtyOne.”
That’s a good point. I agree.
Legislating from the bench should be grounds for removal and a forfeiture of a future pension.
Ran into it on the internet. Couldn’t resist...
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