File it under, 'Don't it make you PROUD'
Some snails glide at a faster pace than Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is confirming federal judges. Like a large, hard turd, obstructing an otherwise healthy bowel, the Pubs are 'doing their thing'.
WASHINGTON — It sucks to be Merrick Garland right now. He was nominated to the job of his life — Supreme Court justice — and Republicans won’t even give him a vote. It’s not that they have bad things to say about him; they just don’t want President Barack Obama to fill the empty court seat.
It’s worth noting there are 46 other Merrick Garlands. That is, 46 other judicial nominees are in the same boat. They’re not in line for the Supreme Court, but like Garland, they’re nominees to federal courts who aren’t getting votes (except one, who just got scheduled for a Monday vote). That’s because GOP leaders don’t want to confirm judges until 2017. By then, they hope, a Republican will be in the White House and will put forward nominees they like better.
Not only are they screwing the judicial branch of government by dragging out confirmations — when vacancies pile up on district and circuit courts, people’s cases can get delayed for years and judges burn out.
Yup, gotta love the GOP, the Grand Obstructionist Party! Nothing new here, but it just gets sickening, as they(R) wreck the system that has worked well, since our country began, but now we have 'Mitch and his Minions'.
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