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GOP No-Shows Help Dems Approve Judicial Nominees Against Trump’s Wishes (www.thedailybeast.com)

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[-] gnurd@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 hours ago

Against Trump's Wishes

Last I checked he's not president yet.

[-] whostosay@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Unfortunately that hasn't mattered for four years, they've still done everything he's asked. (Repubs I mean)

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 34 points 6 hours ago

"even with Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV) joining Republicans to vote against his nomination."

That's a really weird way of writing "Republican Joe Manchin joined his fellow Republicans to vote against Democrats as he always does."

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago

Thank you.

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 hours ago

Not the worst way for republicans to make things harder on trump

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 64 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Good. Do things like this at every chance. Normalcy is for loosers that this point.

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 51 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, it was a single judge, and multiple Dems are gone too, Kamala is apparently in Hawaii, so a tie would have lost.

Every single fucking person with a D by their name needs to be in DC madly scrambling around the clock to do any and everything possible to mitigate imminent damage right now.

Like, I won't lie. A single judge is more than I expected, and I'm happy we got it.

But fuck it, we have the Senate, a single vacancy when Biden hands over the keys is too much.

https://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies

45 vacancies, 15 pending...

And one got voted today when they have the numbers?

I don't say it enough, but Chuck Schumer is a fucking problem and shouldn't be in a party leadership position. Compare him to the Republican counterpart Mitch McTurtle. That dude spent decades saying courts was the number 1 priority, literally all thru Chuck Schumer's political career.

It's been wildly effective but also done in an unethical manner

And yet when Trump is about to move in with a Senate majority, and we have an ethical manner to fill every vacancy...

Why aren't we?

[-] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 hours ago

Yes! Louder 👏🏾 for 👏🏾 the 👏🏾 people 👏🏾 in 👏🏾 the 👏🏾 back 👏🏾

They were too quick to try and fundraise off of the loss but they’re too busy to take action? Fuck these clowns.

[-] 2030TimeTraveler@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago

Either:

1: Democratic leadership isn't really getting touched by the military. They're probably acquaintances with various generals.

2: They realized they're fucked and want to enjoy the last bit of America before shit hits the fan.

Idk which scenario is true. Who knows? 🤷‍♂️

[-] adespoton@lemmy.ca 19 points 8 hours ago

That’s the way to weaponize incompetence.

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