Mitch McConnell Destroys The Senate So Trump Can Destroy The Judiciary

Mitch McConnell has changed the rules of the Senate so that Donald Trump’s judicial picks can get approved even faster. The “nuclear option” that McConnell is using will cut debate on nominees down to just 2 hours, a scary move considering the fact that several of Trump’s nominees have been classified as “not qualified” by legal groups. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.

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Yesterday was a very interesting day for the American court system to say the least. First and foremost, we had two separate reports from two different organizations come out warning us how dangerous Donald Trump's judicial appointments have been. Now that's something we've actually been saying here on ring of fire for well over a year at this point. But it is nice to see that other organizations are paying attention to what's happening on the lower courts and not spending all of their time only talking about the supreme court. But the reason that those two reports coming out yesterday became so important is because later in the day Mitch McConnell decided he was going to change the rules in the Senate and he got all of his Republican buddies that go along with it. And now Donald Trump is going to be able to appoint even more people to court throughout this country and various positions within the u s government without Democrats really being able to do anything at all.

To stop it. McConnell invoke these so called nuclear option, which basically means that from this point forward, anytime Donald Trump wants to put up a judicial nominee other than for the supreme court, instead of going through 30 hours of debate, they now are limited to two two hours, two hours to sit on the Senate floor and debate whether or not a person is qualified to have a lifetime appointment on a court here in the United States. Two hours is all Mitch McConnell's going to give them. At this point, Donald Trump has appointed 92 total judges. That includes the two idiots he put on the U S Supreme Court 92 do you know where Obama was at this point in his presidency? You know, a little over two years in 1616 judges and he had plenty of vacancies. He could have appointed 92 but he didn't and the Democrats during those years actually controlled the Senate.

Now I know there was still a lot of republican obstruction, but there's still a thing called recess appointments and he could've just packed those courts. The first time Republicans went out of town for two days. That's how that works. He just didn't do it and now he let Donald Trump inherit almost 100 judicial vacancies and he's already popped 92 people in in the first two years. And these are people who obviously in addition to having extreme right wing ideologies, pro corporate people, some of them have been rated by the legal ratings agencies as literally not qualified. That is the rating they got. They, these people are not qualified to sit on benches, but screw it and McConnell says do it anyway. We also have, people are literally my age and I'm a millennial that are now sitting on lifetime appointments in the court because these people are getting younger.

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