Throughout the Trump presidency, we chronicled Trump’s success at nominating, and Mitch McConnell’s success in confirming, 226 federal judges, including three for SCOTUS and 54 for the Courts of Appeal.
For the historical record:
With Biden’s win, it was inevitable that the Team Obama that runs the Biden executive branch would try to even the score It could have been stopped, along with some of Biden’s legislation, but only if Republicans won at least one of the two George Senate runoffs on January 5, 2021.
But those runoff elections were pissed away, and yes, Trump deserves much of the blame because he made the runoffs about him and his insistence that Georgia Republicans refuse to certify the 2020 Georgia election result. Trump admitted as much:
Former President Donald Trump said he could have done more to boost voter turnout in the critical 2021 Georgia Senate runoffs for incumbent GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, but didn’t because he was “angry” over losing the 2020 presidential election.Trump discussed his role in the January 5 runoffs in an interview with the Washington Examiner reporter and author David Drucker for Drucker’s new book, “In Trump’s Shadow: The Battle for 2024 and the Future of the GOP,” which was published on Tuesday.”They didn’t want to vote, because they knew they got screwed in the presidential election,” Trump told Drucker of Georgia Republicans, acknowledging that the depressed GOP turnout cost Republicans control of the Senate.Drucker then asked Trump what he thought could have happened if Trump had instead said that, “despite some irregularities that deserved looking into, the state’s voting system was reliable” and urged his supporters to vote.”I don’t know,” Trump said. “I did two very successful rallies — very successful rallies. I did say a version of that, but not as strongly as you said, because I was very angry with what happened there.”Following the Republican losses in Georgia, which handed Senate control to Democrats, Trump insisted he wasn’t to blame. Instead, he repeatedly pointed fingers at Georgia’s GOP governor, Brian Kemp, for refusing to overturn his state’s election results and at Senate leader Mitch McConnell for refusing to support $2,000 stimulus checks as part of the December COVID-19 relief bill.
Trump relentlessly attacked Georgia Republicans, and guess what, a lot of them sat out the runoffs:
Over 752,000 Georgia voters who cast ballots in the presidential election didn’t show up again for the runoffs just two months later, according to a new analysis by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution of recently released voting records.
Democrats won both races. That gave Democrats 50 Senate seats allowing Kamala Harris to cast the tie-breaker. And now Biden is packing the courts at a faster pace than Trump:
The Democratic-led Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s 100th federal judge Tuesday, marking a milestone for the president and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.
The two Democrats have made it a priority to reshape U.S. courts with judges who tend to be younger, liberal and more diverse — both in terms of race and ethnicity, as well as professional experience — than the current bench, a project aided by Democrats expanding their Senate majority in the 2022 midterm election.
On Monday, the Senate confirmed Cindy Chung to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, making her the first Asian American to serve on that court. On Tuesday, the Senate voted 54-45 to make Gina Méndez-Miró a district court judge in Puerto Rico; the nomination passed a key test vote that indicates she has the necessary support to be confirmed and will become Biden’s 100th confirmed judge.
She will be Biden’s 69th confirmed district court judge. He has also secured Senate approval for 30 circuit court judges and one Supreme Court justice: Ketanji Brown Jackson….Biden and Democrats are outpacing former President Donald Trump and the Republican-led Senate — at this juncture, Trump had secured 85 judges.
The Democratic-controlled Senate is poised to approve another slate of President Biden’s judicial nominees with a history of working for left-leaning organizations that represent abortion interests, the gun control lobby, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The judicial nominations are Biden’s way of “paying back the left-wing dark money groups who spent over a billion dollars to help elect him and Senate Democrats,” Carrie Severino, president of JCN, formerly known as Judicial Crisis Network, told Fox News Digital.
“These nominees will happily deliver the left’s policy preferences from the bench, regardless of the law,” Severino added. “If confirmed, they will be some of the most radical judges in the country.” …These [upcoming nomination votes] include Julie Rikelman, the U.S. litigation director for the Center for Reproductive Rights, to serve on the First Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Puerto Rico.Rikelman argued for the abortion industry in two separate Supreme Court cases, according to the Alliance for Justice, a liberal legal group.She argued the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, as her clients lost their case to block a Mississippi abortion restriction. Before that, she separately argued the case of June Medical Services L.L.C. v. Russo regarding a Louisiana abortion restriction.Biden also nominated Nancy Abudu, a former strategic litigation director for the Southern Poverty Law Center after working for the American Civil Liberties Union, to serve on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals that covers Alabama, Florida and Georgia.
Biden is turning out to be the most consequentially disastrous and damaging Democrat president of our lifetime. It’s the third term of Obama on steroids. And it didn’t need to be this bad.
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