So how long will it take to confirm all these judges that Flake has stopped in this session?
Do they have to be renominated?
Go through the committee again?
And they still have the 30 hours of debate each on the Senate floor.
It could be April before we catch up.
I’m just glad there will be 53 Republicans.
there are currently about 20+ pending confirmations on the district level and none in the circuit level due to flake being a member of the judiciary committee of 11-10 republicans and he has refused to vote them out of committee. once the next session starts, mcconnell will start putting the district judges up for vote and then grassley should have the ability to get these guys out of committee onto the floor.
if nothing else, I imagine mcconnell will be pretty ruthless in getting judges confirmed this next session.