McConnell Declares End to ‘Obstruction’ of Trump Nominees

[Swordsmyth]

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has taken his hardest line yet in the face of what he called Democratic “obstruction” of Trump administration nominees to the judicial and executive branches.
McConnell on Thursday announced that the Senate will stay in session for as long as it takes to approve twelve of Trump’s judicial nominees as well as four executive-branch picks.
“No more obstruction, no more delays. It’s time to confirm them all,” McConnell said (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/23/mcconnell-senate-stay-until-12-trump-judges-okd/). “The Senate will continue to work right through August until every single one of them is confirmed.”
McConnell plans to explode Democratic filibusters on every one of the next 16 nominees, and has scheduled votes on them for this week.

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[Zippyjuan]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/republicans-trump-nominees-397714


GOP friendly fire imperils Trump nominees

Republican senators seeking concessions on issues like disaster funding, marijuana and ethanol are one reason Trump's picks have had trouble getting confirmed.

A throng of Republican senators is holding up the confirmations of some of President Donald Trump’s nominees — even as he continues to blame the logjam on Democratic “obstruction.”

At least 11 Republican senators in recent months have disclosed they’re blocking votes on nominees for agencies including the Energy, Agriculture, State, Homeland Security and Justice departments. The vast majority of those delays remain in place while the lawmakers demand concessions on issues such as ethanol regulations, marijuana, disaster funding and nuclear waste.

Such legislative roadblocks are not unusual in themselves: Senators of both parties frequently use whatever leverage they have to extract policy concessions from the executive branch. But the number coming from the GOP side is notable, especially as senior Republicans have raised the possibility of changing the Senate’s rules to make it harder for Democrats to block Trump’s appointees. And the delays are worsening a leadership shortage at many agencies, which have already been stretched by Trump’s slowness to nominate people for senior positions.

Even some fellow Republicans are starting to gripe about the GOP-caused delays.

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[Swordsmyth]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/republicans-trump-nominees-397714



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RINOs are closet Demoncrats.

[Aratus]

He's doing this as DJT wants to fire Jeff Sessions.
He must think if he delivers for DJT he can save J.S's
day job. The clock is ticking down on the month.

[Swordsmyth]

Senate Democrats just gave a huge gift to President Donald Trump (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/donald-trump): They agreed to expedite votes on 15 of his nominees to lifetime federal court seats because they wanted to go home. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/mitch-mcconnell) (Ky.) had lined up votes for all those district court nominees last week. Normally, Senate rules require up to 30 hours of waiting time for each nominee ― something Democrats typically take advantage of to delay action on confirming Trump judges. But Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) cut a deal with McConnell on Tuesday to bypass the wait times and let them all get through.

Why? So Democrats could get back to campaigning and focusing on winning re-election in November. The Senate is now out of session until next Tuesday.

Of the 15 nominees, six were confirmed by voice votes on Tuesday. Another one was confirmed on a recorded vote. The remaining eight will get quick votes next week.

It’s a major win for Trump and McConnell, whose No. 1 priority is filling up federal courts with conservative judges ― many of whom (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-judicial-nominee-abortion-rights_us_59d67a63e4b046f5ad96e117) are incredibly anti-abortion, anti–LGBTQ rights and anti–voting rights. Trump has gotten 26 circuit court judges confirmed, more than any other president at this point in his term. Another way of putting it: 1 in 7 U.S. circuit court seats is now filled by a judge nominated by Trump.

Add that Trump put Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court and is poised to get another justice through, Brett Kavanaugh, and you’ve got a president drastically reshaping the nation’s courts for generations.

“Trading this many lifetime positions away for a couple days back home in the dead of August is a metaphor for how myopic the Democrats’ approach has been at this dark moment in history,” said Brian Fallon, who, awkwardly, was previously Schumer’s chief spokesperson. He is now the executive director of Demand Justice, a progressive judicial advocacy group.

“An entire branch of government is being lost for generations, and Senate Democrats are willfully blind to it,” Fallon said. “In the coming months and years, these same Democrats will issue outraged statements about the rulings issued by the very judges that they could not be bothered to try to slow down. It is pathetic.”

More at: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-trump-federal-judges_us_5b86c0eee4b0cf7b00313783

LOL

[Aratus]

It recreates the environment FDR acted inside, when he took on the Supreme Court in 1937
to pack it. He was confident after being re-elected, he had a landslide. Trump might be POTUS
for a year more, not two, but his legacy is Gorsuch, and this cigar chopper deal. The elite now
expecting a Blue Wave is focused on the November of '18 romp. I agree. I still think Mike Pence
becomes POTUS in 2019 and is soon to be swamped by the 2o2o one, they sense this on a gut
level, but don't give a rat's buttocks about what a future historian says or even caustically writes.

[Aratus]

Do you think Senator McConnell gets his judges
if the Democrats get their cherished Senate Trial?