On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell immediately lined up five judges for approval. He wasted no time. McConnell is a judicial hero and is, along with the President, altering the nature of the judiciary. The activist judges are being replaced by constitutional judges.
The Senate is expected to take its first procedural vote on the slate Monday evening. Republicans will need a simple majority to end the debate on Andrew Brasher’s nomination to be a judge on the 11th Circuit.
In addition to Andrew Lynn Brasher, the judges include Joshua M. Kindred to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Alaska, Matthew Thomas Schelp to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, John Fitzgerald Kness to be U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois, and Philip M. Halpern to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York.
The Senate will confirm the presidency’s 34th Circuit Court judge and 20% of the Circuit Court seats. It would leave virtually no vacancies for a Democrat president in 2021 should a Democrat win.
They might use the nuclear option to appoint judges even faster.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tried to pull a fast one and slow-walk every appointee and drove Senator McConnell to pull the nuclear option.
Trump currently has 128 District Court vacancies to fill, and each one can take multiple days under current rules if any senator demands a delay; if Republicans change the rules, Trump could conceivably fill most of those over the next 20 months.
In December, McConnell stated that Obama appointed 55 Circuit judges in 8 years and President Trump “has done 50 in 3 years.” One out of every four of the U.S. Circuit judges in the country has been put on the bench in the last three years.
There are almost no vacancies at the Circuit Court level and he filed cloture petitions for 13 district judges in December.
It was very nice of Barack Obama to leave all those vacancies.
Four more years, fill the vacancies!
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In reality, any interpreting of law is activism. The real difference is in how original intent is determined.
I am very much in favor of getting Constitutional judges in offices rather than activist judges or party judges. Their jobs are to interpret present law based on rights and limitations built into the Constitution. I don’t want activist judges winging it as far as how cases are decided. I want those decisions based on sound, Constitutional grounds. If President Trump works to speed the process of getting proper judges into office, bless him. He has already surprised me to no end by actually doing what he says he would do in most cases. Certainly many more cases than the usual politician. I hope for all our sakes’, he continues his work for the next 5 years.
If McConnell goes nuclear, I’ll never us the word “turtle” in reference to him again.
It’s ok. He elevates the term Turtle
well odumbo thought the hildebeast would be the one filling those vacancies, not Trump. he wasn’t worried in the least. yet another bad call on his part. he isn’t nearly the genius his supporters think he is.
Anything to whittle down the amount of poison pills that Chicago Jesus left behind is a good thing.
Mitch got some things right and I must admit to being surprised by it.
Maybe The Don has energized the GOP or they realize what a fight for the survival of the republic we are in.
Correction .. the Chicago Jesus is really a Mullah lover….