Senate Dems Raise Alarm on ‘Captured’ Federal Courts as Trump, Republicans Keep Judicial Confirmations Coming
28th May 2020
Senate Democrats released a 50-plus page report Wednesday sounding alarm bells over the rate at which Senate Republicans and President Trump have confirmed federal judges during the president’s first term as Republicans are working on shepherding along even more lifetime-appointed federal judges.
That’s what losing looks like.
The account calls GOP-appointed judges “politicians in robes,” rails against the Chief Justice John Roberts’ Supreme Court, slams the conservative and libertarian lawyers’ group the Federalist Society and says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is “betraying the vision of our founders.”
In other words, Republicans are doing to them what they’ve been doing to Republicans since the 1960s. “MOMMMEEE! Johnny hit me back!”