Summary
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell criticized two Democratic-appointed judges for reversing their retirement plans after President-elect Trump’s victory, accusing them of partisan tactics to block Republican judicial appointments.
McConnell called the moves unprecedented and warned of potential ethics complaints.
He also argued this undermines a recent bipartisan deal on judicial confirmations.
Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin countered, citing McConnell’s 2016 decision to block Merrick Garland’s Supreme Court nomination as an example of GOP gamesmanship.
Still 42 open seats that Biden is giving trump, but McTurtle over here losing his shit over two that aren’t empty yet…
Republicans are fucking terrible, but at least their politicians fight.
Meanwhile we just went with Schumer again despite him doing a complete shit job at it.
Shit job? Schumer got McConnell to help him by offering two circuit court vacancies that no longer exist.
As a result, Biden is on track to confirm more judges than Trump did.
Biden still has time.
And I hope he proves me wrong and there isn’t a single vacancy when he hands the keys over…
But I’m certainly not expecting it.