Confirmation of judges: Trump’s ironic appeal to Republican senators

Despite Republican senators’ efforts to delay the inevitable, the Senate’s Democratic majority late Monday night confirmed Judge Embry Kidd to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, which sits in Atlanta. This was the 216th judge or jurist appointed or promoted to the federal bench since the start of Joe Biden’s mandate. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer promised to continue “working to confirm as many of President Biden’s judicial nominees as possible before the end of the year,” at least a dozen, widely. damn Donald Trump.

The president-elect made his dissatisfaction known on Truth Social this Tuesday and launched an appeal to Republican senators, who will become a majority in the upper house of Congress only on January 3: “The Democrats are trying to invade the courts with judges from the left radical as they are about to leave. Republican senators must come forward and hold the line: no more judges must be confirmed before Inauguration Day! »

No offense to Trump, the most the Republicans can do is delay votes on the confirmation of judges, as they did Monday evening. Beyond this detail, the president-elect’s call is ironic to say the least. He himself avoided a trial in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents affair thanks in large part to the controversial decisions of Judge Aileen Cannon, who was confirmed to the federal bench by the Senate after her election defeat in the November 3, 2020 and before his departure from the White House.

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