According to Wikipedia, here’s what PDJT and Mitch
McConnell have accomplished with regard to the nomination and confirmation of
federal judges since Inauguration Day:
“As of January 1, 2020, the United States Senate has confirmed
187 Article III judges nominated by President
Trump, including 2 Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States,
50 judges for the United States Courts of Appeals,
133 judges for the United States District Courts, and 2
judges for the United States Court of International
Trade.[2] There
are currently 33 nominations to Article III courts awaiting Senate action,
including 2 for the Courts of Appeals, 30 for the District Courts and 1 for the
Court of International Trade.[3] There
is currently 1 vacancy on the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 69 vacancies on the U.S.
District Courts, 2 vacancies on the U.S. Court of International Trade,[3] and
11 announced federal judicial vacancies that will occur before the end of
Trump's first term (1 for the Courts of Appeals and 10 for District Courts).[4] Trump
has not made any recess appointments to the federal courts.”
With all that in mind as a backdrop, Lex has decided that,
upon further review, Scrawny Harry the roach Reid is the runner up for the 2019
Lex Man-O-The-Year Award.
It was, after
all, the roach who invoked the “nuclear option” changing senate rules, as if
there’d never be another Republican majority, to allow for a simple majority
vote to close debate on judicial nominations.
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