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Republicans Are Stacking the Courts Right Under Our Noses.
When are Democrats going to pay attention?
Just recently, Republican Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell made headlines with more of his brazen hypocrisy, when he said that he would indeed put a judge on the Supreme Court bench during an election year. Of course, he famously blocked Obama’s Supreme Court nominee for almost an entire year before the 2016 election.
Color me surprised.
In the midst of all this, Mitch McConnell’s hypocrisy and partisanship is the least interesting aspect of the conversation. Instead, it highlights a far greater issue: Democrats have never paid attention to the courts in the same way that Republicans have, and we’re going to pay for it.
According to the Center for American Progress, McConnell succeeded in keeping over 110 judicial seats open by the end of Obama’s presidency. They delve further into the issue, and state:
“After first preventing President Obama from appointing judges, change the nomination and confirmation process rules so that the most partisan conservative judges can be appointed at breakneck speed. First, conservative Senate leaders invoked the so-called nuclear option to allow Supreme Court justices to be confirmed through majority votes. Then they cut home-state…
