More Federal Judges - Historic Transformation

[BabyBoomer50s]

Santa’s elves have been busy putting more judges under the tree! Merry Christmas from Senator McConnell & President Trump!



“Senators confirmed 13 of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, bringing to 102 the number of federal judges approved this year — more than twice the annual average over the past three decades.

The steady transformation of the courts reflects the single-minded focus of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who has vowed to ‘leave no vacancy behind’ as he and Trump seek to tilt the judicial branch to the right.”




https://apnews.com/875e9a5e1e19e9754bfcc7c63cc747c4

 

[Cubantripod]

This is why impeachment, nor reelection matter. A president's legacy isn't in serving a second term, or some signature piece of legislation. A president's legacy is in the judge he nominates and not so much to the supreme court but to the appellate courts. Trump's legacy is all but set for the next 20-30 years.

 

[domroger]

This is why impeachment, nor reelection matter. A president's legacy isn't in serving a second term, or some signature piece of legislation. A president's legacy is in the judge he nominates and not so much to the supreme court but to the appellate courts. Trump's legacy is all but set for the next 20-30 years.

So that's America fucked .

 

[BabyBoomer50s]

McConnell is a master of his craft. Plays the opposition like a violin.

 

[Just4AFriend]

McConnell is a master of his craft. Plays the opposition like a violin.

Mc Connell is a historically ENORMOUS ass

Plain and simple

The judiciary now represents the minority

A S S

 

[YDB95]

McConnell is a master of his craft. Plays the opposition like a violin.

It's remarkable how effective a guy can be at his job when he simply doesn't give a shit about the rules, isn't it?

 

[Cubantripod]

So that's America fucked .

If your goal was European socialism, I suppose so. For those of us that believe in freedom, it should drastically slow it down. In the end you all have no one to blame but yourselves. Democrats wanted Hillary. The only candidate Trump could have beaten.

 

[BotanyBoy]

It's remarkable how effective a guy can be at his job when he simply doesn't give a shit about the rules, isn't it?

What rules has he not given a shit about?

 

[phrodeau]

What rules has he not given a shit about?

Campaign finance laws.

 

[Dumpington]

BabyBoomer50s writes: "Senators confirmed 13 of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, bringing to 102 the number of federal judges approved this year..."

Cubantripod adds: "Trump's legacy is all but set for the next 20-30 years."

It's like President Obama told Senator John McCain after moving into the White House: "Elections matter!"

domroger writes: "So that's America fucked"

President Obama f*cked his own Democratic Party's legislative power, which was NOT necessarily a bad thing.

Just4AFriend complains: "Mc Connell is a historically ENORMOUS ass"

YDB95 adds: "It's remarkable how effective a guy can be at his job when he simply doesn't give a shit about the rules, isn't it?"

According to "the rules," after the House votes to impeach a president, they're supposed to forward their articles of impeachment to the U.S. Senate, where Mitch McConnell is the majority leader (and NOT Chuck Schumer, Nancy Pelosi, Jerry Nadler, or Adam Schiff!) This is the major fly in the Democratic Party's ointment right now! They really didn't think this whole thing through, did they?

BotanyBoy asks (regarding Mitch McConnell): "What rules has he not given a shit about?"

phrodeau responds: "Campaign finance laws."

Yes or no, phrodeau - should the U.S. Senate put President Trump on trial following last week's House impeachment vote or shouldn't they? Or are you going to hem & haw (and make stuff up) while refusing to answer this very simple question?

 

[Rightguide]

As of this month the United States Senate has confirmed 187 Article III judges nominated by President Trump.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Campaign finance laws.

Which ones exactly?

 

[Rightguide]

Which ones exactly?

I just asked Above Average why the Democrat geniuses couldn't put them into the impeachment articles.

 

[BotanyBoy]

I just asked Above Average why the Democrat geniuses couldn't put them into the impeachment articles.

Everyone knows why.....

 

[Rightguide]

Everyone knows why.....

Everyone but him.

 

[phrodeau]

Which ones exactly?

Accepting foreign contributions.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/...igarchs-funneled-millions-into-gop-campaigns/

 

[BotanyBoy]

Accepting foreign contributions.

https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/...igarchs-funneled-millions-into-gop-campaigns/

From your old link.

Editor's note May 8, 2018: This column originally published December 15, 2017. New allegations about $500k in payments from a Russian oligarch made to Trump attorney Michael Cohen have placed it back in the news.

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team probes deeper into potential collusion between Trump officials and representatives of the Russian government, investigators are taking a closer look at political contributions made by U.S. citizens with close ties to Russia.

Pre-Muller investigation Russiagate nonsense that didn't pan out for you and the other Russiagate conspiracy theorist.

 

[Rightguide]

From your old link.


Pre-Muller investigation Russiagate nonsense that didn't pan out for you and the other Russiagate conspiracy theorist.

Didn't pan out like 90% of the rest of the Democrat narrative against Trump.

 

[YDB95]

What rules has he not given a shit about?

Cute, BB, real cute.

I guess technically there is no rule saying a Senate leader can't refuse to act on literally hundreds of bills passed by the House, or hold a Supreme Court seat hostage until a president he likes can appoint someone to it, or openly vow to do all he can to prevent a president he doesn't like from accomplishing anything, or to work actively with the defence of an impeached president he does like. Of course, that's only because the founding fathers had more confidence in us than we really deserved, and they simply didn't foresee someone like McConnell ending up in charge. But it certainly isn't the way they or anyone else intended for the government to work.

 

[Just4AFriend]

Exactly how much does Russia pay BB?
Couple thousand a month?

 

[Fuzzy1975]

didn't foresee someone like McConnell ending up in charge.

Yet McConnell has been enabled, he didn't do this all on his own, he needed to be helped. First off he needed to be elected. Second, he needed the majority support of the Republican Senators. Those Republican Senators also needed to be elected. So it is not just McConnell alone.

I think McConnell is just using Trump, and would throw Trump under the bus in a second if he thought it would further his political goals.

To rein in this type of "problem" is up to the voters. Trumps impeachment and McConnell's behaviour are linked, but they are not inseparable.

 

[YDB95]

Yet McConnell has been enabled, he didn't do this all on his own, he needed to be helped. First off he needed to be elected. Second, he needed the majority support of the Republican Senators. Those Republican Senators also needed to be elected. So it is not just McConnell alone.

I think McConnell is just using Trump, and would throw Trump under the bus in a second if he thought it would further his political goals.

To rein in this type of "problem" is up to the voters. Trumps impeachment and McConnell's behaviour are linked, but they are not inseparable.

I agree completely. I think it all gets back to the Republicans believing their own propaganda about how the left "hates America" and opposes all things truly American. They think they're entitled to fight us by all means necessary.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

I agree completely. I think it all gets back to the Republicans believing their own propaganda about how the left "hates America" and opposes all things truly American. They think they're entitled to fight us by all means necessary.

I am too far removed to understand the localised politics. I can only offer the outside observations that I notice.

 

[phrodeau]

From your old link.


Pre-Muller investigation Russiagate nonsense that didn't pan out for you and the other Russiagate conspiracy theorist.

Did Mueller investigate McConnell’s campaign? Why no, he did not.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Cute, BB, real cute.

I guess technically there is no rule saying a Senate leader can't refuse to act on literally hundreds of bills passed by the House, or hold a Supreme Court seat hostage until a president he likes can appoint someone to it, or openly vow to do all he can to prevent a president he doesn't like from accomplishing anything, or to work actively with the defence of an impeached president he does like.

No there isn't.

But it certainly isn't the way they or anyone else intended for the government to work.

So then why have a bicameral congress with a legislative process either chamber can totally shut the other down??

Didn't pan out like 90% of the rest of the Democrat narrative against Trump.

So far the only thing that's worked for them is a vote that they really don't like him.

Yet McConnell has been enabled, he didn't do this all on his own, he needed to be helped. First off he needed to be elected. Second, he needed the majority support of the Republican Senators. Those Republican Senators also needed to be elected. So it is not just McConnell alone.

I think McConnell is just using Trump, and would throw Trump under the bus in a second if he thought it would further his political goals.

To rein in this type of "problem" is up to the voters. Trumps impeachment and McConnell's behaviour are linked, but they are not inseparable.

And it doesn't look like the voters are going to get rid of McConnell anytime soon.

I agree completely. I think it all gets back to the Republicans believing their own propaganda about how the left "hates America" and opposes all things truly American. They think they're entitled to fight us by all means necessary.

The left does.... that's why they want to get rid of everything the USA has ever been about for the exact opposite. You want to replace private property and capitalism with socialism, get rid of individualism of any kind in favor of collectivism at every level.....pursue maximum equity collectively at totally at the expense of individual liberty.

How can you deny your hate and opposition to the USA ?? The left has been hating and openly advocating the USA do a 180 on everything for years now.

And we are entitled to fight you and any other authoritarians by all means necessary.