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Dec 21 2019
01:06 am
Winning the battle and losing the war?
While the rest of Washington focused on impeachment proceedings Wednesday, Mitch McConnell successfully pressed forward on a subject that has been the one knockout success for the Republican Senate and President Donald Trump: judges.
So far, he has led the charge changing the landscape of the federal courts across the country with a record number of appellate court judges -- currently at 50 -- and Supreme Court nominees Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
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"My motto for the remainder of this Congress is 'leave no vacancy behind,'" McConnell told radio host Hugh Hewitt on Wednesday.
As House votes to impeach Trump, McConnell pushes 13 judge nominations through Senate
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Well?
What did you think was going to happen?
what?
(in reply to fischbobber)
Trump and the GOP promised to pack the courts, so I'm shocked.