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Posted on 02/11/2020 8:17:14 AM PST by jazusamo
Minutes after Chief Justice John Roberts gaveled out President Trump's impeachment trial, which had consumed the Senate for almost three weeks, Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., got right back to what he's said is his top priority -- confirming judges.
Less than half-an-hour after TV networks cut away from the Senate to dive into the ramifications of the body acquitting Trump, McConnell filed cloture on the nomination of Judge Andrew Brasher to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, a procedural step that moved the controversial nominee one step closer to confirmation. The body took the next step to confirming Brasher Monday by approving the motion with a 46-41 vote, setting the Senate on a course to vote on his nomination Tuesday afternoon.
Progressive groups, which have opposed many Trump nominees, cried foul over the move.
"Last Wednesday, a narrow majority of the Senate voted to cover up the president's actions. Immediately after the vote to betray our democracy, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell turned right back to nominations," said Lena Zwarensteyn, the Fair Courts campaign director for The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. "McConnell is staying the course on shielding the president's actions from checks and balances and stacking the courts with nominees who have records of hostility to civil and human rights, particularly voting rights."
Others on a conference call with reporters that was organized by the liberal group included Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., former Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum and NAACP Alabama State Conference President Bernard Simelton. They said Brasher has a history of fighting against voting rights, gay rights, women's health care and environmental protection.
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probably why turtle didn’t impale mittens for voting to remove; he needs him on judges.
McConnell appears to be doing good work on judges
Mitch is burning rubber on getting Judges....so when the arrests begin they’ll be in place!
I have a personal gripe, a HUGE one: Republicans need to be correcting communists and Democrats that this country is NOT a “democracy.” We are a Constitutional Republic. Remember, true democracy is closer... FAR closer... to Venezuela, Soviet Europe, and Communist Asia than it is to American Constitutional republicanism.
They said Brasher has a history of fighting against voting rights, gay rights, women’s health care and environmental protection.
Looks like a keeper to me.
Why is this grinning con-man huckster still in politics?
I'm sure Democrats whine the same line about EVERY judge.
He should go full bore on “controversial” nominees now that a bunch of democrat Senators are out campaigning.
He won’t need Mittens for that reason alone.
Winning !!!!!
Mitch has been really solid! This is great news!
“””I’m sure Democrats whine the same line about EVERY judge. “”
EVERY judge that President Trump wants is controversial.
Yep, he’s definitely a keeper.
In other news, none of these "progressive groups" have disavowed one of the racist Democrat candidates for president in 2020 - Michael "Up Against The Wall" Bloomberg.
That makes them racist, too.
Sorry, progressive racists. STFU wit yo racism.
In other news, none of these "progressive groups" have disavowed one of the racist Democrat candidates for president in 2020 - Michael "Up Against The Wall" Bloomberg.
That makes them racist, too.
Sorry, progressive racists. STFU wit yo racism.
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Yes, the idiot Senate Rats running for POTUS are out campaigning.
Time to ramrod through “controversial” (conservative Constitutionalist) judicial nominees!
please just give us at least one more SC appointee before the next election...are you listening RBG?
Cocaine Mitch is a Magnificent Bastard!
“the Fair Courts campaign director for The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights”
Well damn! If this judge is against civil and human rights, I oppose him too! Always get a kick out of these Orwellian names leftists come up with to advance their wacko ideology.
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