Summary

Two Democratic-appointed federal judges have unretired after the 2024 election, preventing Trump from appointing replacements.

The judges’ decisions were influenced by the Senate’s “blue slip” policy, which requires support from home-state senators for presidential nominees.

Republican leaders, including Mitch McConnell, have criticized the judges’ actions as partisan, while Democrats are rushing to confirm as many judges as possible before Trump takes office.

  • @[email protected]
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    -48 days ago

    Well their is the norms of not appointing judges on a year of an election. Oh yah trump totally respected that.

    • @givesomefucks
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      8 days ago

      That was never a norm…

      That was the party betting that enough SC seats up for grabs might get people to vote for Hillary, but they were wrong

      Obama could seat someone on the legal rationale that while the Senate has the option to approve SC picks, there’s nothing that says they have to. So he was taking refusal of a confirmation as implicit confirmation and seating him.

      Instead of, you know, just accepting that a SC seat was stolen.

    • @AbidanYre
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      78 days ago

      That norm was also made up by McConnell because he didn’t want Obama to replace Scalia.