Posted on 05/05/2020 2:57:54 AM PDT by cotton1706
Judge Sri Srinivasan, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, formally requested that Chief Justice John Roberts assign another circuit to look into a complaint of ethical improprieties by McConnell and the judge whose resignation created a controversial opening on the DC circuit, Judge Thomas B. Griffith.
The complaint was filed by the progressive advocacy group Demand Justice which is questioning the timing and circumstances of Griffith’s retirement announcement in March after reports that the Senate Majority Leader “had been contacting appeals court judges nominated by Republican presidents to encourage them to retire,” according to an account in The New York Times.
With the 2020 elections looming and both the balance of power in the Senate and the White House up for grabs, McConnell’s move was seen as a last-ditch effort to pack the courts as much as possible while he still controlled the levers of power to use his majority to confirm his army of Federalist Society-approved nominees.
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This lawsuit is of course just to get weak sisters like Mitt Romney to vote against him.
But Walker is from Kentucky, and what Mitch wants, Mitch gets. The moderates will likely fold.
Judiciary hearing is tomprrow.
I see the Dems have weaponized the judicial system. I’m not surprised. Power means everything to them...
That is not illegal or even unethical. Dems did it for years when in power. They just think Repubs shouldn't be allowed to do it too.
Imagine... A Republic that desires Republic Minded Honest Judges instead of Demon-Ratic Minded Perverted Tyrants.
These guys just will not stop.
Their hatred for the other wide is what makes them ugly to the bone and rather old looking before their time...
Unprecedented attempt at judicial manipulation by this Obama judge. Srinivasan is the one who needs to face an ethics inquiry.
Exactly.
If you were paying attention the past 3 years, Mitch single-handedly delivered 200 Trump judges to federal courts and that’s why they needed to stop him.
It was mostly him and Graham. And for Mitch to convince even the RINOS on the senate to vote for these plus Trump judges successfully and quickly, well the Dummycraps had to do something.
Dismissed.
Welcome to the party, pal. It's not the "Dems", it's the progressives in both parties, and it started before the Korean War.
How many Republican Senators of the 43 then sitting voted against Ruth Bader Ginsburg when she was nominated to the Supreme Court?
Turtles have hard shells
They’re like a bad case of syphilis...they just never go away.
“...These guys just will not stop...”
No... they won’t. Ever.
Which is why we can’t stop, either. Ever.
And to pretend that we can still coexist with people who want us dead is suicidal.
They need to be crushed.
Where is the problem here?
Talking to judges to consider retiring so Trump can appoint a new one?
Awwwwwwwww Democrats can’t take it when Republicans do what they do...
It should be wrong to play politics with judges...but Democrats started this with Bork, Thomas and Kavanaugh....it is good to Republicans matching their political crap with our own.
We have disarmed and tried to take the “high road” too often.
“McConnell’s completely fabricated policy of not allowing President Barack Obama to even get a Senate confirmation hearing for his pick for the vacant Supreme Court seat in his last year in office was the most egregious manifestation of this nefarious right-wing plot to stack the courts with their allies and foster their conservative agenda.”
No, only hardcore leftists are supposed to fight like this. I am no fan of Cocaine Mitch, but tip my hat to him on getting judges through the Senate. Unfortunately, Lindsay Grahamnesty is not much help on the Judiciary Committee.
OMG!!! This has never, in all U.S. history, been done before, ever!!!! /sarc
Truth: It has been done throughout U.S. history, by all parties. Older judges favorable to you are nearing retirement or would like to retire. You’d like to keep their seat friendly to you, and the older judge decides to retire. Happens all the time.
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