Posted at 2:00 pm
February 6, 2020
by Sister Toldjah
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With the Senate’s impeachment trial over and President Trump’s acquittal in the books, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is signaling he’s ready to get back to business.
The judicial confirmation
business, that is!
The Hill reported yesterday that McConnell wasted precious little time after events unfolded Wednesday afternoon “teeing up” five more of Trump’s nominees for consideration:
McConnell teed up five judicial nominations for votes on the Senate floor as the chamber wrapped up its work for the week.
The Senate is expected to take its first procedural vote on the slate Monday evening, when Republicans will need a simple majority to end the debate on Andrew Brasher’s nomination to be a judge on the 11th Circuit.
Once Brasher is confirmed, the Senate will turn to the nominations of Joshua Kindred, Matthew Schelp, Joshua Kness and Philip Halpern, all of whom have been picked to be U.S. district judges.
The Senate could easily fit all five nominations into its schedule for next week.
Per The Hill, assuming the next five nominees are approved by the Senate, that will make a staggering 192 judges confirmed since Trump was sworn into office in 2017.
To be sure, McConnell’s Senate churned out confirmations at a record-setting pace even as the impeachment inquiry was taking place, and even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held on to the articles of impeachment in hopes of getting pre-trial concessions from the Senate.
But naturally as the impeachment trial got under way late last month in the Senate, judicial nominees had to be put on hold.
Not anymore:
Trump even took a few minutes during his celebratory presser today to give a shout out to McConnell for his work during the trial as well as for his outstanding judicial confirmations record:
One major point to take from all this is that even if Trump happens to get defeated in November, his legacy – and that of Mitch McConnell’s – will continue on well into the future in very significant ways:
‘Nuff said.
With the Senate’s impeachment trial over and President Trump’s acquittal in the books, Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is signaling he’s ready to get back to business.
The judicial confirmation
business, that is!
The Hill reported yesterday that McConnell wasted precious little time after events unfolded Wednesday afternoon “teeing up” five more of Trump’s nominees for consideration:
McConnell teed up five judicial nominations for votes on the Senate floor as the chamber wrapped up its work for the week.
The Senate is expected to take its first procedural vote on the slate Monday evening, when Republicans will need a simple majority to end the debate on Andrew Brasher’s nomination to be a judge on the 11th Circuit.
Once Brasher is confirmed, the Senate will turn to the nominations of Joshua Kindred, Matthew Schelp, Joshua Kness and Philip Halpern, all of whom have been picked to be U.S. district judges.
The Senate could easily fit all five nominations into its schedule for next week.
Per The Hill, assuming the next five nominees are approved by the Senate, that will make a staggering 192 judges confirmed since Trump was sworn into office in 2017.
To be sure, McConnell’s Senate churned out confirmations at a record-setting pace even as the impeachment inquiry was taking place, and even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi held on to the articles of impeachment in hopes of getting pre-trial concessions from the Senate.
But naturally as the impeachment trial got under way late last month in the Senate, judicial nominees had to be put on hold.
Not anymore:
Trump even took a few minutes during his celebratory presser today to give a shout out to McConnell for his work during the trial as well as for his outstanding judicial confirmations record:
One major point to take from all this is that even if Trump happens to get defeated in November, his legacy – and that of Mitch McConnell’s – will continue on well into the future in very significant ways:
‘Nuff said.
Based in North Carolina, Sister Toldjah is a former liberal and a 16+ year veteran of blogging with an emphasis on media bias, social issues, and the culture wars.
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