Swordsmyth
11-13-2017, 03:02 PM
The other reason for the delay in getting Trump’s nominees vetted and confirmed is, as noted above, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), shown. He is limiting the Senate from considering them by cutting its hours. This has so outraged conservative leaders that 133 of them wrote McConnell directly complaining (http://conservativeactionproject.com/the-senate-needs-to-confirm-president-trumps-nominees/) that “the slow pace of Senate confirmations is exacerbated by the Senate’s continued insistence on working no more than 2½ days a week: arriving on Monday evening for a handful of votes, and departing, on average, by 2:30 pm each Thursday afternoon.”
The opportunity to transform the American judiciary toward freedom and away from tyranny won’t last forever. It’s hard enough for the president to fight intransigent Democrats who are opposing him every step of the way. He now finds that he must fight Republican Senator Mitch McConnell as well.
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/27358-mcconnell-democrats-stalling-trump-s-conservative-judicial-nominees
The opportunity to transform the American judiciary toward freedom and away from tyranny won’t last forever. It’s hard enough for the president to fight intransigent Democrats who are opposing him every step of the way. He now finds that he must fight Republican Senator Mitch McConnell as well.
More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/27358-mcconnell-democrats-stalling-trump-s-conservative-judicial-nominees