McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit

[Eugene]

Source: New York Times

McConnell Has a Request for Veteran Federal Judges: Please Quit

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

By Carl Hulse
March 16, 2020
Updated 5:41 p.m. ET

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.

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

[alwaysinasnit]

1. Moscow Mitch is even more grotesque than the orange menace.

[defacto7]

2. Oh yeah. He's the smart version of 45. Ideologically worse.

[alwaysinasnit]

3. +1000

[Alpeduez21]

4. All you motherfucking protest voters

Can go straight to fucking hell. You sat out or voted for someone other than the best choice. I hope you’re happy with yourselves

[Wednesdays]

8. Yes. And Ralph Nader can go to hell, too.

[Laelth]

5. Damn. The Turtle is smart and relentless.

Credit where it is due. Mitch knows there’s a good chance he is going to lose the Senate in November, and he’s doing everything he can to fill Federal Judgeships now with young, conservative ideologues. I am impressed.

-Laelth

[Dem2theMax]

6. Will you all excuse me and my language for a moment?

Mitch McConnell, would you please fucking die right now?

(My parents would be horrified at my language.)
But I'm sure they would agree with the sentiment.

[SunSeeker]

7. Mitch is trying to pack the courts for a generation, while he still has the senate.

Mitch can see the writing on the wall.

[JudyM]

9. He certainly hasn't been doing anything legislatively to help the country. I hope he has a hard,

hard fall, however it happens.

[Karadeniz]

10. Real subtle, Mitch. You're not selfish or power hungry or anything.

[BigmanPigman]

11. I have a message for Mitch: Please quit!

But first, go fuck yourself!