Post by the Scribe on Aug 31, 2020 1:32:27 GMT
another reason to make sure the Senate flips BLUE
By the end of my first term, we will have approved more than 300 federal judges, including two great, new Supreme Court justices.
President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shared the goal of remaking the federal judiciary. McConnell has led the Senate in approving more than 200 judges, all nominated by Trump. Together, they filled every circuit court vacancy in the country as of June 24 of this year.
www.npr.org/2020/07/02/886285772/trump-and-mcconnell-via-swath-of-judges-will-affect-u-s-law-for-decades
“This Senate will have confirmed 200 of President Trump’s nominees to lifetime appointments on the federal bench,” McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor that day. “And following number 200, when we depart this chamber today, there will not be a single circuit court vacancy anywhere in the nation for the first time in at least 40 years.”
That achievement is one that McConnell has pursued for decades, and it is one that he and Trump both celebrate frequently.
Kelsey Snell
NPR Congressional Correspondent
By the end of my first term, we will have approved more than 300 federal judges, including two great, new Supreme Court justices.
President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell shared the goal of remaking the federal judiciary. McConnell has led the Senate in approving more than 200 judges, all nominated by Trump. Together, they filled every circuit court vacancy in the country as of June 24 of this year.
www.npr.org/2020/07/02/886285772/trump-and-mcconnell-via-swath-of-judges-will-affect-u-s-law-for-decades
“This Senate will have confirmed 200 of President Trump’s nominees to lifetime appointments on the federal bench,” McConnell said in a speech on the Senate floor that day. “And following number 200, when we depart this chamber today, there will not be a single circuit court vacancy anywhere in the nation for the first time in at least 40 years.”
That achievement is one that McConnell has pursued for decades, and it is one that he and Trump both celebrate frequently.
Kelsey Snell
NPR Congressional Correspondent