McConnell plans to fill two key circuit court seats even if Trump loses

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says he will fill two key circuit court vacancies after the elections, even if President Trump loses and there's a Democratic takeover of government.

The leader's assertion makes clear that judicial confirmations will be a high priority, regardless of the election results.

"We're going to run through the tape. We go through the end of the year, and so does the president. We're going to fill the 7th Circuit, and I'm hoping we have time to fill the 1st Circuit as well," McConnell told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt.

"And we are, by the way, confirming a district judge as soon as we get back after the election, and we're going to clean the plate, clean all the district judges off as well," McConnell said.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mcconnell-plans-to-fill-two-key-circuit-court-seats-even-if-trump-loses/ar-BB1ay5iv?li=BBnbfcQ&ocid=DELLDHP

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Even if? You mean especially if and with some unqualified stooge.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Attrition from incompetence will rip these fools from their seats as the years roll by

None of them know what they're doing.

[CaptYossarian]

2. The Injustice League.

They'll find the Constitution unconstitutional.

[mpcamb]

41. It'll give Susan Collins a lame duck vote on another couple judges. Let's see what she says and does

[homegirl]

3. Trump Takes His Tweeter Hatchet to the SCOTUS

"....Mind-blowing’:
Experts stunned by 3 AM Trump tweets threatening Supreme Court Justices
President Donald Trump in the middle of the night launched a 45 minute Twitter tantrum that ended with an attack on the Supreme Court’s justices, one-third of whom he placed on the bench.

"....Trump clearly was furious about a recent ruling handed down by eight of the now-nine justices. The Court ruled that Pennsylvania and North Carolina can accept absentee ballots after Election Day.

"....The president went ballistic, threatening the nation’s top jurists.

"...."If Sleepy Joe Biden is actually elected President, the 4 Justices (plus1) that helped make such a ridiculous win possible would be relegated to sitting on not only a heavily PACKED COURT, but probably a REVOLVING COURT as well. At least the many new Justices will be Radical Left!”

"....The president is making clear not only that he is planning to contest the results of the election all the way to the Supreme Court, but that he fully expects the Court to hand him the win.

"....To be clear, unlike in some states, there is nothing in law that allows a presidential candidate to contest the results of an election. But Trump’s legal team, and Jared Kushner, reportedly have been planning how to take the election to the Court for months.

[StClone]

4. Old crazy Bastard-Mitch's House of Straw

He can push all this bat shit stuff thinking there is nothing Dems can do. He poking the giant and I see much of his crap being undone even the putting of shit hole Cons in the courts. If we get the power we will be as passionate for doing good as they for evil.

[OrlandoDem2]

5. Time to double the number of District and Circuit courts!

[Laelth]

9. Yep. And the Courts of Appeals.

I suspect some Democrat is already working on the “Judicial Modernization Act of 2021.” Our courts are SWAMPED with cases that they can not hear. We need a LOT more judges. The SCOTUS could use 4, 6, or 8 more judges too. They’re clearly overworked and overwhelmed with cases.

-Laelth

[Hekate]

6. Mitch is out of control

[C Moon]

11. He's a pissed off and frustrated wannabe slave owner.

[Rebl2]

15. Maybe

Congress needs to make a new law that in a Presidential election year new judges may not be installed in October until after the election. If the person that wins the Presidential election is from the other party, no more judges may be put in place until the new President takes office in January.

[groundloop]

19. Change the inauguration to mid November.

[Rebl2]

24. That would be

fine with me!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

36. No, he's very much in control

Jamming as many conservative right-wing republican judges onto as many benches as he can. He knows exactly what he's doing. Even if he loses his senate seat, his legacy will last decades.

He has damaged this country. Mission accomplished.

[KS Toronado]

7. Sounds like Moscow Mitch will be to busy with Judges to hold hearings on stimulus talks

[C Moon]

12. When Biden wins and the Democrats take the senate,

Moscow Mitch will do NOTHING to help America before the Dems take control.
He'll be paying off his bills with our money.

[Nexus2]

13. Oh, of course they will.

And likely any proposal after that will be 'too expensive'

[Joinfortmill]

8. The Dems need to take this guy down

[ananda]

10. Can't we have that general strike sooner?

Just something big to let Reeps know this is NOT ok.

[Nexus2]

14. I wonder if given his age and how close he appears to be that if McConnell is suffering

from some serious, possible terminal illness has that driven his drive to solidify his so called legacy (Reshaping the Judicial branch in his image for decades) to the obsessive level its at now, nothing will stand his way even political expediency will stand his way.

[cstanleytech]

16. This is why the first piece of legislation our people need to ram through after they earn the

majority in the Senate is to increase SCOTUS and the federal courts and appoint need judges to each of them within the first 90 days.
Make it 13 for SCOTUS and increase the other courts number of judges by 2 and only appoint young progressive justices.
That way it will prevent the Republicans from their attempt to protect themselves and Trump by corrupting our justice system by rigging it with biased judges that will likely rule in their favor.

[Sherman A1]

17. Of course he will

the lame duck republicans will go full scorched earth before leaving.

[Efilroft Sul]

18. If we take both houses and the White House, nobody here better go wobbly on court packing.

Because short of a stake through his black heart, Mitch McConnell deserves nothing less in kind.

[groundloop]

21. Moscow Mitch is the one doing the 'Court Packing'

Every single time someone brings up 'court packing' they need to be reminded that Moscow Mitch has packed the courts. He denied President Obama's nominee a chance to be voted on and allowed tRump to shove a right wing ideologue down our throats, he rammed through an unqualified justice with mere days to go until the election, and is threatening to further tilt courts to the right after the election even if GOPers lose. Democrats are only proposing to balance the courts.

[Efilroft Sul]

23. We can balance, right-size, correct the course of the courts...

…whatever people want to call it, but let's get the judges on them that aren't unqualified Federalist Society whackadoodles and drag Mitch and his fellow fascists down to hell with each nomination and confirmation.

[thenelm1]

25. And it wasn't just the denied Supreme Court seat.

As I recall there were well over 100 other seats on various fed courts that Mitch wouldn't allow to be brought to the floor and refused to fill during the Obama years as well.

[DallasNE]

20. And Even If He Is A Lame Duck

Voted out by the people of Kentucky. Some farewell message that will be.

[groundloop]

22. Fuck Moscow Mitch, Fuck the GOPer party, and Fuck bipartisanship

GOPers have shown what they think of Democrats and the American people, we needn't waste any more time attempting to work with them. Just cram progressive legislation, health care reform, etc. down their throats and let them choke on it.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

26. What about a new stimulus bill?

No, no... there's no time for that!

[rdking647]

27. for every new trump judeg add 2 new seats to the court

and fill them with liberals. make it so the GOp never has another chance

[fantase56]

28. God I wish he'd stroke out......nt

[warmfeet]

29. That's just okey, dokey.

I plan on taking a great big dump at the head of his turtle grave. And, for as long as I am alive, I will make it clear just what a sellout this douchebag was. That is his legacy. He does not care, and I get that. I do care. He is a russian stooge.

[NorthOf270]

30. EXPAND THE COURTS!!!

I'm telling you right now if someone on the SCOTUS died tomorrow they'd fill that seat too.

[Evolve Dammit]

31. Well bless his little (tiny, non-existent?, vile, hateful, rancid, Voldemortish) heart. NOT.

[captain queeg]

32. Personally I think it would be great if IMPOYUS starts bad mouthing the courts

Especially the SC

[Botany]

33. ATTN Ky voters .... McConnell has no time to help you before or after the election but time ...

... for politics.

BTW I don't think Mitch gives a shit about the people of KY because he is dying of congestive heart failure.

[Mr. Evil]

34. The only thing I want to see when Chuck Schumer becomes Senate majority leader is,

to see him actually tell Moscow Mitch (whenever he says something stupid, condescending, whatever) to sit down and STFU!
That would make my day!

[JCMach1]

35. Yet they CAN'T work on Stimulus?

[Nexus2]

37. They've got IMPORTANT things to do, this is a man's legacy we're talking about, his decades long

contribution to Operation: Minority Rule Forever.

[JCMach1]

38. Mine is a good example. I was laid off in March

And have not worked since. I was fortunate enough to have saving to pay rent.

I caught Covid in September, nearly passed over the rainbow bridge, and am left with at least temporary and possibly permanent disability at a time I needed to go back to work.

Also, facing possible loss of my ACA through the court case.

I still consider myself lucky, but there are so many people and families that need financial help.

[Politicub]

39. He would do this anyway.

McConnell is a POS.

[Brainfodder]

40. Mitch and all his Treason.

Whose going to write it and the screenplay?