Earlier this week, Trump laid the blame squarely at the feet of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, accusing the New York senator of deliberately slowing down the process of approving nominations put forward by the White House.
"More than a year longer than any other Administration in history,” the President tweeted on Monday. “These are people who have been approved by committees and all others, yet Schumer continues to hold them back from serving their Country! Very Unfair!”
The decision was praised by progressive groups, who lauded the Senate for rejecting the nominations.
"Each of these nominees, if confirmed, would have received a lifetime seat on the federal courts and had a profound impact on the lives of Americans long after Donald Trump leaves the White House," Marge Baker, the executive vice president for People for the American Way, was quoted as saying by The Hill.
In December, Senate Democrats vowed to reject end-of-year judicial nominations and were true to their word. According to The Hill, the rejections included approximately 70 judicial nominees. Politico reported on Wednesday that 31 of the 70 nominees were pending on the Senate floor, while another 21 were waiting on a vote from the Judiciary Committee at the end of the session.
A tracker from The Washington Post and the Partnership for Public Service shows the Senate has so far approved 434 nominations out of the 707 positions that require confirmation. The Senators’ decision to knock back a large number of nominations—the full list was published in the Congressional Record on Friday—has now thrown them into jeopardy.
At what point can politicians actually be charged with obstruction? Their argument is literally "but his decisions will have people there for a long time…". Which means "I dislike him and don't want him to have the power his position entitles him to".
Brody Martin
Remember that these are the same people who want to abolish the electoral college. There is no sense of morality with the Left at all. Not even the Republicans when Obama was president pulled this shit.
Michael Young
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Xavier Rodriguez
Don't forget that the GOP blocked Obama's SC nomination for like six months, just because they could. This is politics as usual; don't fucking pretend like both sides don't pull this shit when they get into power. The age of compromise is over. Now it's nothing but obstructionist politics, mad Constitution-raping power grabs, and every new administration just undoing whatever the fuck the last guy did.
This country is fucked. Plain and simple.
Camden Gonzalez
It's been 2 years and he still doesn't have ambassadors. They're blocking fucking AMBASSADORS
Thomas Miller
No, fuck you! I won't let you little shits push Justice Scalia's murder (oh sorry, political assassination) under the table and pretend this is the same fucking shit. They've delayed Trump's nominations for two fucking years. King Nigger (or one of his top brass) had Scalia assassinated hoping to establish a blue supreme court knowing that when whats-her-face dies either a Democrat would be in office or the Democrats would have regained the house or senate allowing them to force a RINO into office (not that is matters since Kavanaugh is a RINO). Their plan backfired because all the Republicans knew that King Nigger had Scalia murdered. These are vacant positions not some covered up assassination retaliation we're dealing with here.
