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Its Not Just The Supreme Court. Republicans Are Screwing Lots Of Other Courts Too.
GOP senators are barely confirming judicial nominees even their own.
04/08/2016 05:54 pm ET
Some snails glide at a faster pace than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is confirming federal judges.
WASHINGTON It sucks to be Merrick Garland right now. He was nominated to the job of his life Supreme Court justice and Republicans wont even give him a vote. Its not that they have bad things to say about him; they just dont want President Barack Obama to fill the empty court seat.
Its worth noting there are 46 other Merrick Garlands. That is, 46 other judicial nominees are in the same boat. Theyre not in line for the Supreme Court, but like Garland, theyre nominees to federal courts who arent getting votes (except one, who just got scheduled for a Monday vote). Thats because GOP leaders dont want to confirm judges until 2017. By then, they hope, a Republican will be in the White House and will put forward nominees they like better.
Not only are they screwing the judicial branch of government by dragging out confirmations when vacancies pile up on district and circuit courts, peoples cases can get delayed for years and judges burn out but theyre screwing themselves. Some GOP senators really need judicial nominees confirmed, but are being denied by their own party leaders.
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It’s Not Just The Supreme Court. Republicans Are Screwing Lots Of Other Courts Too. (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2016
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madokie
(51,076 posts)1. Not only Obama and the courts
but the american people are also being screwed by the republiCONs in congress. Every fucking single one of them need to be put out to pasture, they're all way past their due date.
rurallib
(62,433 posts)2. exactly. Our courts need to dispense justice as quickly as possible
every vacancy not filled adds to the delay of justice.
Justice delayed is justice denied.