I wanted to request votes for the 15 District Court noms on Monday – but @SenateMajLdr didn’t want to be embarrassed so he cut me a deal.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) June 8, 2016
Senator Elizabeth Warren went to the Senate floor on June 8, 2016 to call for unanimous consent votes for 15 federal district court nominees who have moved through the Judiciary Committee but have not been scheduled confirmation votes by the Republican majority. Senator Mitch McConnell objected to the unanimous consent request.
Listen to the whole thing. *This* is why we need to keep Elizabeth Warren in the Senate.
I called for immediate votes on 15 judicial nominees. @SenateMajLdr objected. 9 nominees? No. 4 nominees? No. Just 1 nominee? No.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) June 8, 2016
I wish I could say I’m surprised, but @SenateMajLdr & @SenateGOP keep court seats empty as long as possible to hamstring @POTUS.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) June 8, 2016
Orrin Hatch gets a cameo, looking like a man who’s just been given a choice between a colonoscopy without anesthesia and a total orchiectomy. And (yes!) in her closing statement, Sen. Warren goes there…
If GOP senators really wanted to signal their discontent with Trump, why not schedule confirmation hearings for Garland?
— (((Daniel Drezner))) (@dandrezner) June 7, 2016
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