‘This Is a Disservice to Donald Trump’: Right-winger Seethes Over Push for Biden Judges
Democrats work to confirm president's nominees before he leaves office
A member of the Wall Street Journal’s notoriously right-wing editorial board is publicly incensed over the 11th hour push to confirm as many of President Biden’s federal judicial nominations as possible before Donald Trump is sworn in, in January.
Biden, along with Democrats who continue to control the US Senate, are racing to confirm his judicial nominations before he leaves office.
It’s a situation that Trump, himself, has expressed typical outrage over.
Confirming federal judges is one of the few actions Biden and Democrats can do in the time alloted.
The Senate has confirmed 218 of Biden’s nominees. Trump had 234 confirmations during his first term. Democrats said they will do everything they can to tie or surpass him.
Vice President-elect JD Vance remains a Republican senator from Ohio for the time being, and he and other Republican senators are being criticized for not doing more to stand in the way of Biden nominees.
Vance has defended his absence from the Senate by saying that he is busy with the work of the Trump presidential transition.
But Kim Strassel, a member of the Journal’s editorial board, is having none of it.
“And, by the way, Donald Trump can actually manage to make decisions without J.D. Vance by his side every moment of the day,” she said. “The one thing I would say though, Paul, is the criticism because seem to have gotten through. A couple more judges got through still because of absence, but I would note that J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio showed up.”
Rubio, a Republican senator from Florida, is Trump’s pick for secretary of state.
“But when you have a Senate that is in this closely balanced even when you have a Democrat that is voting against these people, you must have full Republican attendance,” Strassel said. “And, by the way, this was a great disservice to Donald Trump because not only are these judges being put in those positions, but each ones that is is a position he doesn’t get to pick and fill.”
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