Give the devil his due, Mitch has been great at this.
15 is not 50 but a good start..
So Ditch is not all that politically intelligent?
Huzzah!
I don’t recall a SINGLE objection from the MEDIA over any of Obama’s picks.
Not so good: there were 40-some in line.
But we did get 3 out of 4 Citcuit judges, so not so bad either.
Also today, the Senate confirmed two assistant attorneys general who were nominated by President Trump SIXTEEN MONTHS ago! Thanks to a recalcitrant senate, it has taken almost two years for the president to get his DOJ team in place. It looks like the senate has finally gotten religion.
where was all this determination LAST YEAR???Everyone watches Trump’s right hand shake with Kanye while his left ushers in judges.
Wasn’t there something like 165 pending?
We torpedoed Trump’s agenda(wall,etc) and prevented the swamp from being drained—The 2 things that MUST be done for AMerica survive(She’s barely breathing)
But pat us on the back for getting some judges through.
84 total, including Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, 29 circuit judges, and 53 district court judges.
Unprecedented success! No President has had record like this in just 2 years. Good on the turtle.
IF it is actually 15, great. Stock the courts.
I would expect a lot more judges and administrators to be confirmed in the lame duck session immediately after the election. And assuming that Republicans retain (and likely increase) their control of the Senate, the confirmations will accelerate next year. By the end of Trump’s first term, he will have filled most of the judicial vacancies around the country. If he’s re-elected and Republicans maintain control of the the Senate after 2020 (both of which appear likely), Trump will have completely remade the majority of the country’s court system, as well as adding another Supreme Court Justice or two.
Woohoo!!!!