Democrats Just Confirmed Lots Of Trump's Judges So They Could Skip Town

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Senate Democrats just gave a huge gift to President Donald Trump: They agreed to expedite votes on 15 of his nominees to lifetime federal court seats because they wanted to go home.

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) had lined up votes for all those district court nominees last week. Normally, Senate rules require up to 30 hours of waiting time for each nominee ― something Democrats typically take advantage of to delay action on confirming Trump judges. But Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) cut a deal with McConnell on Tuesday to bypass the wait times and let them all get through.

Why? So Democrats could get back to campaigning and focusing on winning re-election in November. The Senate is now out of session until next Tuesday.

Of the 15 nominees, six were confirmed by voice votes on Tuesday. Another one was confirmed on a recorded vote. The remaining eight will get quick votes next week.

It’s a major win for Trump and McConnell, whose No. 1 priority is filling up federal courts with conservative judges ―

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/senate-democrats-trump-federal-judges_us_5b86c0eee4b0cf7b00313783

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1. And Schumer's ex-spokesman is not happy

From the link:

“Trading this many lifetime positions away for a couple days back home in the dead of August is a metaphor for how myopic the Democrats’ approach has been at this dark moment in history,” said Brian Fallon, who, awkwardly, was previously Schumer’s chief spokesperson. He is now the executive director of Demand Justice, a progressive judicial advocacy group.

“An entire branch of government is being lost for generations, and Senate Democrats are willfully blind to it,” Fallon said. “In the coming months and years, these same Democrats will issue outraged statements about the rulings issued by the very judges that they could not be bothered to try to slow down. It is pathetic.”

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3. here's some info about the group

https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/demand-justice/

I'd like to see somewhere a recommendation of actions that can be taken to publicly oppose Kavanaugh. Are there more protests planned? What's happening?

[mountain grammy]

8. He says it all right there..

Americans will suffer under these judges.

[Bluepinky]

2. This is bad. Why speed it up, the Repubs want to campaign too.

I know we’re not supposed to criticize Dems, but this seems asinine.

[democratisphere]

4. Just what we DON'T NEED!

[bluestarone]

5. For sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Could someone explain their thinking here??? I DO NOT UNDERSTAND THIS.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. Fuck That BULLSHIT "story". I am NOT happy with its suggestion.

To the two reporters who wrote it: What would the Democrats have done to stop even one of them. McConnell has the votes and that's that.

Better to go home an campaign, if you ask me. The GOPee SAID they were going to do this. They were going to hold votes at times designed to keep Dems off the campaign trail. They SAID that, and these two wanker motherfucker reports spin it as Bad Dems BAD BAD BAD.

Blow me, motherfuckers.