Posted on 04/29/2020 2:48:57 PM PDT by jazusamo
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Wednesday joined a growing chorus of Democrats calling on Senate Republicans to pause their efforts to confirm federal judges when the Senate returns on May 4 amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying the GOP seems less interested in passing further measures to combat the virus than they are in putting more of President Trump's nominees on the federal bench.
"The GDP just had its biggest drop since the Great Recession, the United States has surpassed one million confirmed positive cases of COVID-19, and we still don’t have adequate testing," Schumer said in a statement. "Meanwhile, a top administration official is calling their dismal response to these public health and economic crises 'a great success story' and Senator McConnell is seemingly only interested in confirming more unqualified, right-wing judges and protecting CEOs instead of workers."
McConnell recently said in an interview on the "Hugh Hewett Show" that as soon as the Senate reconvenes on Monday, he plans to get busy confirming more judges.
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But Mike Davis, the president of the Article III Project, a conservative group dedicated to boosting Trump's judicial nominees, criticized Democrats, including Schumer, for "mindless obstruction" of Trump-nominated judges.
"Senator Chuck Schumer has mindlessly opposed the President’s judicial nominees from Day One, so it should come as no surprise that Schumer’s not letting the coronavirus crisis go to waste," Davis said. "The coronavirus crisis makes clear that judicial confirmations are one of the most essential functions of the Senate, as we need judges — like Judge Justin Walker — who understand their critical role is to protect our constitutional rights from politicians who are more interested in power grabs than public safety."
"The Senate can walk and chew gum at the same time,"...
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Nope
Your Move
The DIMs/Leftists despise Free Americans, Free America, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. What malignancies on civil society.
Rough tocks, Scheckie. Read ‘em and weep, you old gasbag.
Nay, you’ll never find a loyal backbone republican at the hill..power and $$$$$$$$ greed are to powerful to overcome for the snakes!!
Votes need to be in person.
The endless debates and interviews can be done over video conferencing.
Trump can announce that each of his nominees will be available for video chat by any Senator for the whole week leading up to the vote.
It’s probably past time to quarantine the House and the Senate members in their respective chambers
...for their own protection, you know
We can slide a tub of Nanzi’s gourmet ice cream under the crack in the door for their daily nourishment.
The Socialists want to have no more judge confirmations before the election in the hope that the election will go their way. That possibility makes the confirmation of as many new good judges as possible mandatory.
This really is shaping up as a democrat operation from the beginning.
It sure is possible. I wouldn’t put anything past the Rat leadership and I don’t believe in coincidence, especially with something like this.
“It sure is possible. I wouldn’t put anything past the Rat leadership and I don’t believe in coincidence, especially with something like this.”
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What? Surely you’re not suggesting that the Chicoms and the globalist, corrupt DemocRATS could be making common cause to unseat Trump. The ‘RATS WOULD as far as to destroy America, in large measure, if it got them back in power? /not really sarcasm
HELL NO! Full speed ahead. Ram every single last judicial nominee through ASAP.
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