The Senate Confirmed 13 Trump Judges While America Watched Democrats Debate
Audrey Conklin
Reporter
The Senate confirmed 13 judges President Donald Trump chose while America had its eyes on the Democratic primary debates Tuesday and Wednesday.
Though Senate Republicans had initially planned to confirm 19 Trump judges before leaving Washington, D.C., for August recess, they successfully confirmed four nominees Tuesday and nine Wednesday.
“For too long, fairly uncontroversial judicial nominees just like these have been held up and delayed by our Democratic colleagues even when the vacancy qualifies as a judicial emergency,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said during a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, The Hill reported.
“Uncontroversial district judges used to be confirmed promptly in big groups by voice vote,” he continued.
Confirmations include the following district court nominees:
Karin Immergut for the District of Oregon
John Milton Younge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Mary M. Rowland for the Northern District of Illinois
Mark Pittman to the Northern District of Texas
Jeffrey Brown to the Southern District of Texas
Brantley Starr to the Northern District of Texas
Martha Pacold to the Northern District of Illinois
Jason Pulliam to the Western District of Texas
William Stickman IV to be the Western District of Pennsylvania
Michael T. Liburdi for the District of Arizona
Peter D. Welte for the District of North Dakota
James Wesley Hendrix for the Northern District of Texas
Sean D. Jordan for the Eastern District of Texas
Republicans have confirmed more than 100 Trump court picks since 2017, including Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, as well as a record number of appeals court judges.
Trump accused Democrats of obstructing his nominees earlier in 2019.
“Democrats in the Senate are still slow walking hundreds of highly qualified people wanting to come into government,” the president said in a February tweet. “Never been such an abuse in our country’s history.”
Sections of the 2019 book “Justice on Trial” by Mollie Hemingway and Carrie Severino reveal how 2016 Trump campaign lawyers consulted with retired Justice Anthony Kennedy in an effort to build a list of prospective Supreme Court nominees ahead of Trump’s election.
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