We ALL KNOW what Donald Trump has done with Supreme placements…
Quietly President Biden has made his placements to the Federal Courts which aren’t ‘supposed’ to be without politics , Right?
Democrats keeping a US Senate majority as expected will allow President Biden to keep making placements to the Federal bench …
For more than 20 months now, Democrats have OK’d their judicial nominees with almost no obstacles and kept pace with President Donald Trump’s big confirmation numbers, despite holding the narrowest Senate majority possible. But as they confront the potential loss of unified government control and prepare for legislative gridlock to resume between the House and Senate next year, continued sway over Biden’s nominations may be Democrats’ most tangible asset should they hang on to the upper chamber.
And it’s not hard to distill the political stakes of holding on to the Senate’s confirmation power, given recent history.
“We have something like 80 federal vacancies — more coming. To leave those judicial seats vacant is to really challenge the Republican message in this campaign that they’re all for law and order,” Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said in an interview Wednesday. “You can’t have law and order with an empty bench and no judge.”
If Republicans win the Senate, Mitch McConnell would become majority leader and might slow confirmations to a trickle, just as he did under President Barack Obama. But if Majority Leader Chuck Schumer holds on, two more years of a Democratic chamber would essentially guarantee that Biden can keep pace with Trump’s judicial totals and bend some circuit and district courts back to the left, not to mention fill a Supreme Court vacancy if one opens up….
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Next month’s election results will determine whether Biden and Schumer can finish their work or whether McConnell is able to return to his strategy from Obama’s latter years in office, dramatically slowing Biden’s confirmation rate and setting the table for a potential GOP presidential win in 2024….