The Senate confirmed more than a dozen Trump judicial picks this week as the chamber raced to wrap up its work for the year.
"I'm proud that the Senate came together today to confirm more well-qualified nominees and to pass major legislation for the American people," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said after the massive voting streak, which also saw the chamber passing funding legislation.
The back-to-back days of nomination votes brings the total number of Trump court picks confirmed by the Senate to 187, including two Supreme Court nominees.
I count 2 more Appellate Court Nominees and 32 more District Court nominees waiting to be approved by the Senate. That would give him 52 of the 179 Appellate Court Judges (29%) along with 164 District Court Judges with likely more vacancies to come.
This has truly been an ongoing (but not widely covered) story in the Trump Presidency. No matter whatever else happens, Trump's legacy with the Judicial Branch of nominating young conservative constitutional judges will not be undone in our lifetime.
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It can largely be undone if the Dems continue to win state legislatures and the US House and the Senate, and the presidency, through LAWS that even conservative judges will have to uphold.
Seems to me that even getting conservative judges by trump are not enough for some evangelicals who have finally realize he is an amoral unchristian asshole!!!!!!!
Continue to win? Hey shit for brains, Gop controls most state legislatures.
Some evangelicals? Or perhaps one new editor?
Sorry James...
But it cannot be "undone". The Democrats and liberals have relied on the courts to pretty much get their agenda passed that they otherwise couldn't get past through the law.
Whether you agree with things like the Gay Marriage ruling is irrelevant to the principle of our constitutional separation of powers. Courts shouldn't be making political and social calls for society. Courts are there simply to interpret the laws according to constitutional guidelines.
Trump has put forward Judges who will not legislate from the bench or "overrule" what our legislation attempts to pass (unless of course those laws are clearly unconstitutional).
Moreover James...
The more adult Judges that are confirmed, the less likely it is that Liberals can run to court to "stop" Trump and others from writing constitutional EOs or passing constitutional laws... because they don't like them.
The "resistance" Judges who continue to rule against the constitution to spite Trump (or more recently to spite the higher courts for ruling differently) have no place in the judicial branch.
Pelosi: Power of gavel means Trump is 'impeached forever'
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nancy Pelosi promised as speaker she would "show the power of the gavel.”
This year, she laid it out for all to see.
The past week alone, the Democratic leader delivered a $1.4 trillion government funding package to stop a shutdown, pushed through the bipartisan U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement, and passed her party's plan to lower prescription drug costs. In between, she led a congressional delegation to Europe for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.
And on Wednesday, she impeached the president.
As the first year of Pelosi’s second stint as speaker draws to a close — she is the only woman to hold the office, and the first speaker in 60 years to reclaim the gavel after losing it — the California Democrat took stock of whether she fulfilled her campaign trail promise.
“Donald Trump thinks so,“ Pelosi told The Associated Press during an interview Thursday at her office in the Capitol.
”He just got impeached. He’ll be impeached forever. No matter what the Senate does. He’s impeached forever because he violated our Constitution,” she said.
“If I did nothing else, he saw the power of the gavel there,” Pelosi told the AP. "And it wasn’t me, it was all of our members making their own decision.”
Not since an earlier era of leaders — like Sam Rayburn, whose name is on a building at the Capitol, or Newt Gingrich, who defined a political movement — has the House speaker wielded such influence.
“She has governed with force and authority,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public policy at Princeton.
Zelizer said Pelosi has accomplished with Trump what others have not, which is to build a coalition strong enough to hold the president accountable, through impeachment, while also muscling through big bills. This, on top of what she did during her first term in the office.
“She is likely to go down in history as one of the most effective Speakers,” he said.
I once wanted her to resign. I'm glad she didn't.
I thought conservative judges pretty much tend to allow states to do what they legally vote to do.
Depends James...
On what they are trying to do. Laws that attempt run against the bill of rights are likely going to be overturned.
“She is likely to go down in history as one of the most effective Speakers,” he said.
and she is also likely, very likely in fact, to be the first speaker in US history to lose a house majority TWICE.
We shall see.
Ch said,
Depends James...
On what they are trying to do. Laws that attempt run against the bill of rights are likely going to be overturned.
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JAMES SAYS: So far, seems to me the higher courts have had a tendency to refuse to hear and thus leave in place a lot of the decisions made by the states regarding interpretations of those rights. But I'm no legal expert.
JAMES SAYS: So far, seems to me the higher courts have had a tendency to refuse to hear and thus leave in place a lot of the decisions made by the states regarding interpretations of those rights. But I'm no legal expert.
no legal expert indeed.
it could not be more clearly spelled out:
Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
So I was right, as usual.
AWR HAWKINS 20 Dec 2019
The Washington Post gave House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) four Pinocchios for sharing false gun statistics over and over again.
Trump Adviser ADMITS VOTER SUPPRESSION In Wisconsin
December 20, 2019 at 7:32 pm EST
“One of President Trump’s top re-election advisers told influential Republicans in swing state Wisconsin that the party has ‘traditionally’ relied on voter suppression to compete in battleground states but will be able to ‘start playing offense’ in 2020 due to relaxed Election Day rules,” according to an audio recording of a private event obtained by the Associated Press.
Said Justin Clark: "Traditinally, it's always been Republicans suppressing votes in places. Let’s start protecting our voters. We know where they are… Let’s start playing offense a little bit. That’s what you’re going to see in 2020. It’s going to be a much bigger program, a much more aggressive program, a much better-funded program.”
IT'S ON TAPE. HISTORY WILL NOT BE KIND TO THE PRESIDENT AND PARTY THAT ARE TRYING TO STEAL OUR COUNTRY
Ex-GOP Senator Says Republicans Are On Trial Too
7:29 pm EST
Jeff Flake:
“To my former Senate Republican colleagues, I don’t envy you.
“It might not be fair, but none of the successes, achievements and triumphs you’ve had in public office — whatever bills you’ve passed, hearings you’ve chaired, constituents you have had the privilege of helping — will matter more than your actions in the coming months.
“President Trump is on trial. But in a very real sense, so are you. And so is the political party to which we belong.”
HISTORY WILL NOT BE KIND.
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
100% correct!
So unless the laws are openly unconstitutional (say a power grab for guns and shutting down free speech) they will be left alone. Especially things that are not in the constitution (like protections for Abortion clinics).
I have been noticed that nobody has been supportive of the actions of the President in regards to the perfect phone call.
They just attack the people who have impeached the President.
I have seen that he may be able to appoint about about 27. Before the election.
Even if he is convicted Pence will do the same thing.
Most them are under the age of 27. It will turn the judicial branch conservative original intent philosophically intent philosophy and judges.
Scientists Warn of Amazon ‘Tipping Point’
“Continued deforestation and other fast-moving changes in the Amazon threaten to turn parts of the rainforest into savanna, devastate wildlife and release billions of tons carbon into the atmosphere,” the Washington Post reports.
“Combined with recent news that the Arctic permafrost may be beginning to fill the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, and that Greenland’s ice sheet is melting at an accelerating pace, it’s the latest hint that important parts of the climate system may be moving toward irreversible changes at a pace that defies earlier predictions.”
Said scientists Thomas Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre: “The precious Amazon is teetering on the edge of functional destruction and, with it, so are we. Today, we stand exactly in a moment of destiny: The tipping point is here, it is now.”
James the Amazon has been at the "tipping point" for the last 40 years.
And yet mysteriously it survives.
I have been noticed that nobody has been supportive of the actions of the President in regards to the perfect phone call.
Gee Roger if the charges were that legitimate the Democrats wouldn't have to lie about them in an open hearing or hold a Kangaroo court.
Adam Schiff's actions were a disgrace and has brought dishonor to the House.
And as we subsequently saw, Nancy Pelosi is cynically playing games with impeachment.
Democrats are going to pay a heavy price next November.
James the Amazon has been at the "tipping point" for the last 40 years.
Your opinion numb nutz.....BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! Nothing but your BS......
You got the talking point message
That's not a denial.
Most them are under the age of 27. It will turn the judicial branch conservative original intent philosophically intent philosophy and judges.
Whaaa????
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