McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit

[Celerity]

The Senate majority leader has encouraged judges thinking about stepping down to do so soon to ensure that Republicans confirm their replacements this year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/mcconnell-judges-republicans.html

WASHINGTON — Running out of federal court vacancies to fill, Senate Republicans have been quietly making overtures to sitting Republican-nominated judges who are eligible to retire to urge them to step aside so they can be replaced while the party still holds the Senate and the White House.

Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, who has used his position as majority leader to build a judicial confirmation juggernaut for President Trump over the past three years, has been personally reaching out to judges to sound them out on their plans and assure them that they would have a worthy successor if they gave up their seats soon, according to multiple people with knowledge of his actions.

It was not known how many judges were contacted or which of them Mr. McConnell had spoken to directly. One of his Republican colleagues said others had also initiated outreach in an effort to heighten awareness among judges nominated by Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush and George W. Bush that making the change now would be advantageous.

The overt effort by Republicans to create vacancies reflects a realization that Mr. Trump could lose the presidency, or that Republicans could lose the Senate majority and deprive Mr. Trump of his partner on judicial confirmations even if he did gain a second term. Mike Davis, a former nomination counsel for Senate Republicans who created the Article III Project, a conservative judicial advocacy group, said that he still expected Mr. Trump to win, but that “we have to hope for the best and plan for the worst.” Republicans are reminding the judges that it could be another eight years — 2029 — before they could leave under a Republican president.

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[texasfiddler]

1. Quit asking people do something they don't want to do

That would be like me asking Mr. McConnell: please die

[aquamarina]

2. Gotta love this asshole's priorities.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I'd like to know how many judges responded to this...

Many of them, even if conservative by nature, become more "court-sided" and take their jobs seriously.

[dalton99a]

4. Why hasn't this traitor been infected?

[2naSalit]

5. I hope they will tell him to stuff it.

[Celerity]

8. and his mobbed-up criminal wifey

Oops: Elaine Chao Caught Pimping Her Family Business with China

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/06/elaine-chao-china-trip-foremost

The Chao 'connection'

https://www.scmp.com/article/347074/chao-connection


Mitch McConnell’s Freighted Ties to a Shadowy Shipping Company

After drugs were found aboard the Ping May, a vessel owned by his wife’s family’s company, Colombian authorities are investigating.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mitch-mcconnells-freighted-ties-shadowy-shipping-company/

[Celerity]

11. I think a Katie Porter type would go after them with a vengeance

[grumpyduck]

7. Sure, Mitch,

you f*ing asshole, why don't you set an example for them and QUIT FIRST???????

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. Follow your own advice McTurdhole