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The GOP has broken a "123-year tradition against voting on judicial nominees of an outgoing president of the defeated party during a lame duck session.”
Why?
To maintain power from unelected seats.
/1 https://twitter.com/sisu_sanity/status/1330988288228913157
The GOP has broken a "123-year tradition against voting on judicial nominees of an outgoing president of the defeated party during a lame duck session.”
Why?
To maintain power from unelected seats.
/1 https://twitter.com/sisu_sanity/status/1330988288228913157
Senate GOP breaks 123-year tradition to pack courts with Trump’s judicial nominees in spite of loss
The latest judge approved by Mitch McConnell & Co. is a 33-year-old lawyer who the Bar Assoc. rated “not qualified"
h/t @sisu_sanity
/2 https://www.salon.com/2020/11/19/senate-gop-breaks-123-year-tradition-to-pack-courts-with-trumps-judicial-nominees-in-spite-of-loss/
The latest judge approved by Mitch McConnell & Co. is a 33-year-old lawyer who the Bar Assoc. rated “not qualified"
h/t @sisu_sanity
/2 https://www.salon.com/2020/11/19/senate-gop-breaks-123-year-tradition-to-pack-courts-with-trumps-judicial-nominees-in-spite-of-loss/
Why the seeming urgency to fill the courts with Federalist judges?
The GOP knows demographics are not on their side.
As Lindsey Graham had noted as early as 2012, “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.” https://time.com/5628283/trump-tweets-racist-white-america/
The GOP knows demographics are not on their side.
As Lindsey Graham had noted as early as 2012, “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.” https://time.com/5628283/trump-tweets-racist-white-america/
If you didn’t see it, watch @SenWhitehouse’s confirmation presentation.
Whitehouse lays out the way that coordinated groups use millions in dark money to bring cases to specific jurisdictions, then pay others to file amicus briefs, gaming the entire judicial process.
/4 https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1316131627337039872
Whitehouse lays out the way that coordinated groups use millions in dark money to bring cases to specific jurisdictions, then pay others to file amicus briefs, gaming the entire judicial process.
/4 https://twitter.com/clearing_fog/status/1316131627337039872
This is a way to legislate from the bench.
Funders of these dark money groups want to roll back all of the laws and policies that have been enacted since the Great Depression.
These obviously are not popular ideas, and they know that they cannot pass them in the legislature.
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Funders of these dark money groups want to roll back all of the laws and policies that have been enacted since the Great Depression.
These obviously are not popular ideas, and they know that they cannot pass them in the legislature.
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The GOP has re-envisioned our system of government. They no longer see the legislative branch as conducive to their agenda.
They now use the Senate as a backstop, to prevent opponents from checking them, and as a tool to attack their opponents (e.g. Benghazi investigations).
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They now use the Senate as a backstop, to prevent opponents from checking them, and as a tool to attack their opponents (e.g. Benghazi investigations).
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And while they use the Senate as a means to attack opposition to their agenda, they use the federal bench and dark money networks as their new, replacement legislative branch.
It is a way to maintain power, despite being voted out of power. In a sense, it is a judicial coup.
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It is a way to maintain power, despite being voted out of power. In a sense, it is a judicial coup.
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