Posted on 04/06/2020 1:28:59 PM PDT by jazusamo
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President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are pushing ahead with an aggressive effort to get more federal judges confirmed amid the global coronavirus pandemic, as they grapple with the possibility that the November elections could wrest away Republican control of the Senate and White House.
Losing the White House or control of the Senate would be a major blow to efforts to install conservative jurists on the federal bench, as the president nominates judicial nominees and the Senate confirms them. McConnell -- who takes great pride in confirming Trump's judicial nominees -- has made clear he wants to fill as many vacancies as possible in 2020.
"My motto for the rest of the year is 'leave no vacancy behind,'" McConnell said at a dinner for the Federalist Society, a group for conservative and libertarian lawyers, at Union Station last November.
The majority leader and the president have had other things on their mind lately, passing in a matter of weeks three coronavirus relief packages with the most recent totaling more than $2.2 trillion worth of economic stimulus and disease-fighting measures. But they still found time on Friday to announce the nomination of Judge Justin Walker, a McConnell ally from Kentucky and former clerk for then-judge Brett Kavanaugh, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
"I am proud that President Trump’s search took him outside the Beltway and into the Bluegrass," McConnell said in a statement on the nominee to the D.C. Circuit, which is widely viewed as a feeder bench to the Supreme Court. "He has chosen a rising Kentucky star, born and raised in Louisville, to refresh the second-most-important federal court in the country."
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Trump said in 2015 he only had 2 “ primary” objectives which is the wall and the judges. Bannon made sure to remind Trump before he was fired. It was a given about the economy so he did not need to make that promise.
Faux News and the other Commie propaganda media is very sad.
My mother worked on “The Hill” back in the late 1930s and early 1940s. As a youngster, I remember her laughingly saying, “the Senate is an ‘old boys club’; everyone is very polite and condescending, but they all look out for their own best interests.”
Ram ‘em through, Turtle!
Most importantly, the patriots are in power. When will the trials begin?
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