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This will be a weekly post. Count remains at 196 judges confirmed. 143 District Court judges 51 Circuit Court judges 2 Supreme Court justices This week McConnell called for cloture on Justin Walker, nominee to the DC Circuit. Also this week Cory Wilson, nominee to the 5th Circuit, was voted out of committee. Walker will likely be confirmed next week. And subsequently (surely before the July 4th recess), Wilson as well. When confirmed they will be Trump's 52nd and 53rd Circuit confirmations - in less than four years. By contrast Obama had 55 in EIGHT years. This will be it...

The Trump administration has proposed a regulation that would deliver its biggest blow to the US asylum system yet, vastly expanding immigration officials’ authority to turn away migrants. If enacted, it would all but close America’s doors to asylum seekers — a signature policy for a president desperately trying to rally his base in an election year. The regulation, which was announced Wednesday, would allow immigration officials to discard asylum seekers’ applications as “frivolous” without so much as a hearing, and make it impossible for victims of gang-related and gender-based violence to obtain protection in the US. It would also...

On a party-line vote of 12-10, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary passed the nomination of Mississippi’s Cory Wilson for a seat on the United States Fifth Circuit out of committee. The nomination will now be considered by the full Senate where confirmation appears likely as Republicans maintain the majority. Both Mississippi Senators were on hand for the hearing and offered the following statements:

During what was a rising pandemic, and amid concern regarding the potential spread of the coronavirus through the normal voting process, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ordered boards of elections throughout the state to afford every eligible voter the opportunity to vote by mail. When the math was done, in order to accommodate just those voters who could partake in the special elections and party primaries coming up on June 23, the Erie County Board of Elections determined it would have to send 380,000 notices to voters offering them a chance to receive a mail-in ballot. Once signed and returned,...

Voting is our people’s greatest mechanism for change. It is arguably our only avenue for which we peaceably exercise our free will to guide the course of a nation which delicately and admirably struggles to balance personal freedoms with the collective good. Too much of the national conversation surrounding calls for change in the aftermath of George Floyd’s death fails to stress the closest mechanism of change that can have an immediate and direct impact on the intersection of policing policy and race relations: voting in local elections. Sadly, in today’s America, it’s more important to stand in line for...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, whose video campaign ad featuring her holding a semi-automatic rifle while warning Antifa terrorists to “Stay the hell out of northwest Georgia” was banned from Facebook, handily garnered the top vote total in Tuesday’s Georgia 14th district GOP primary. “You won’t burn our churches, loot our businesses or destroy our homes,” Greene cautions Antifa terrorists in her ad, which is still posted on Twitter and YouTube: “President Trump declared ANTIFA a domestic terrorist organization. I have a message for ANTIFA terrorists: stay the hell out of northwest Georgia. You won’t burn our churches, loot our businesses or...

The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary is scheduled to meet this Thursday to consider the nomination of Mississippi’s Cory Wilson for a lifetime judicial appointment on the United States Fifth Circuit. Wilson’s nomination, unlike previous Fifth Circuit nominees, has been largely ignored by Mississippi media outlets. However, nationally his confirmation journey has gained attention as he has been forced to square off with more liberal members of the U.S. Senate in committee hearings defending his record. Wilson, a former Republican state representative, currently sits on the Mississippi Court of Appeals.

Washington, D.C. — As the Senate prepares to vote on the nomination of Kentucky U.S. District Judge Justin Walker to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Maggie Jo Buchanan, director of Legal Progress at the Center for American Progress, issued the following statement: Instead of focusing the Senate’s attention on addressing the many crises facing our country—from long-overdue police reform to the health and economic devastation being caused by the coronavirus pandemic—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is prioritizing the appointment of Justin Walker, a family friend and Brett Kavanaugh’s protégé,...

Washington(CNN) President Donald Trump's campaign is demanding CNN retract and apologize for a recent poll that showed him well behind presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. The demand, coming in the form of a cease and desist letter to CNN President Jeff Zucker, was immediately rejected by the network.

Gathering place for comments and concerns about the Georgia Primary Election.

The Secretary of State’s office says county officials are to blame for voting issues that have caused massive lines and hours-long wait times at polling locations across metro Atlanta. “The voting situation today in certain precincts in Fulton and Dekalb counties is unacceptable. My office has opened an investigation to determine what these counties need to do to resolve these issues before November’s election. Obviously, the first time a new voting system is used there is going to be a learning curve, and voting in a pandemic only increased these difficulties. But every other county faced these same issues and...

Top Senate Republicans are urging President Trump to back off a threat to campaign against Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) if she runs for reelection in 2022. Trump tweeted late last week that he would be campaigning in Alaska in 2022 against Murkowski and would back anyone with a "pulse" after she told reporters that she was "struggling" with whether she could support him in 2020. But top Senate Republicans indicated on Monday that they don't support efforts to unseat Murkowski, who is one of the Senate GOP caucus's most moderate members. "I'd leave Lisa alone. She's a member of our...

...something taken for granted by too many of own residents that don't value freedom and liberty.

TAIPEI, Taiwan—A Beijing-friendly mayor in Taiwan who was the opposition candidate in this year’s presidential race has been voted out of office after an unprecedented recall election on Jan. 6. More than 939,000 people voted to remove Han Kuo-yu, the mayor of southern Taiwan’s city of Kaohsiung and a member of the Kuomintang (KMT) party, for being “unfit” for office. About 25,000 people voted against Han’s recall. The voting turnout was about 42 percent. Han is the first Taiwanese official ever to be removed this way. He conceded defeat in a TV broadcast, and blamed the ruling Democratic Progressive Party...

A lily-white ticket like Clinton-Kaine just won't cut it this time. And James Clyburn will demand an African American on the ticket. So the white women are out. Kamala Harris is possible but unlikely. She fizzled in the primaries and prosecuted African Americans for drug crimes. Stacy Abrams is a tubby joke (Nancy Pelosi says it's ok to call people fat) Muriel Bowser is all the rage (pun intended) and is right now a Black Lives Matter hero. Biden/Bowser Delaware and DC The second smallest state in the union and a 67 square-mile city that wants to be a state....

This will be a weekly post. Count is now 196 judges confirmed. 143 District Court judges 51 Circuit Court judges 2 Supreme Court justices

The White House turned the White House press corps into stage scenery on Friday, and may have violated its own social-distancing rules in doing so. When reporters gathered in the Rose Garden for what they had been told by White House officials was a presidential news conference, they found several rows of chairs arrayed on the lawn. The seats were spaced far apart, in keeping with the public-health protocols that the White House has observed at indoor and outdoor press events since the coronavirus pandemic took hold in mid-March. Just before President Trump and top officials emerged from the West...

There is a coordinated movement to abandon in-person voting for mail-in ballots. Some on the left are taking advantage of the pandemic to force a solution for a problem that does not exist and create conditions ripe for vote fraud.  Democrats across the country are using COVID-19 as an excuse to send ballots to people who have not requested absentee ballots—both active and inactive voters on voting rolls that often have not been updated by removing relocated or deceased voters. New voting procedures pushed by Speaker Pelosi and some state leaders are clearly unnecessary from a public health perspective. If we...

Former spy Valerie Plame on Tuesday lost her bid for the U.S. House of Representatives, falling in New Mexico’s Democratic primary election to attorney Teresa Leger Fernandez.

Donald Trump has appointed and the Senate has confirmed 197 Article III federal judges through June 1, 2020, his fourth year in office. This is the second-most Article III judicial appointments through this point in all presidencies since Jimmy Carter (D). The Senate had confirmed 228 of Carter’s appointees at this point in his term. The average number of federal judges appointed by a president through June 1 of their fourth year in office is 176. The median number of Supreme Court justices appointed is two. Along with President Trump, Presidents Barack Obama (D), Bill Clinton (D), and George H.W....