By Father Mark Hodges
Life Site News
Pro-lifers applaud President Donald Trump for fulfilling campaign promises to nominate constitutionalist judges to the nation’s courts, but senate Democrats are holding up confirmation of 87 percent of Trump’s picks.
The Hill reported that President Trump “faces an appointment blockage worse than any seen before in the past four presidencies.”
The president has made 57 nominations, but only seven have been confirmed. The rest still await approval by either the Senate Judiciary Committee or a full Senate vote.
Plus, for 10 of the 50 nominees kept waiting in the wings for a full vote, Democrats demand at least 30 hours of senate floor debate each.
The coordinated delays began with the Trump cabinet, which took the longest of any president in 30 years. Trump doesn’t even have a Solicitor General to represent the government before the Supreme Court. (He has nominated Noel Francisco as this “10th Justice,” but Senate Democrats refuse to confirm him.)
In the meantime, vacancies threaten to stall the judicial system and ultra-liberal Obama leftovers are running the store.
The Hill says there are more than 130 court vacancies (1/6th of the federal judiciary), and 52 districts have declared court vacancy “emergencies.” Twenty-two more empty benches are expected by year’s end.
The impact is felt throughout the country.
The Hill reported that President Trump “faces an appointment blockage worse than any seen before in the past four presidencies.”
The president has made 57 nominations, but only seven have been confirmed. The rest still await approval by either the Senate Judiciary Committee or a full Senate vote.
Plus, for 10 of the 50 nominees kept waiting in the wings for a full vote, Democrats demand at least 30 hours of senate floor debate each.
“We are witnessing confirmation obstruction on steroids,” the Hill’s Victor Williams summarized. “The unprecedented obstruction is, obviously, part of a wider attempt by partisan opponents to discredit Donald Trump’s election; to ‘resist’ Trump’s governance.”
The problem isn’t confined to the judicial branch, either. Hundreds of top executive branch and agency posts remain empty, and the Senate has confirmed fewer than 50.
The coordinated delays began with the Trump cabinet, which took the longest of any president in 30 years. Trump doesn’t even have a Solicitor General to represent the government before the Supreme Court. (He has nominated Noel Francisco as this “10th Justice,” but Senate Democrats refuse to confirm him.)
In the meantime, vacancies threaten to stall the judicial system and ultra-liberal Obama leftovers are running the store.
The Hill says there are more than 130 court vacancies (1/6th of the federal judiciary), and 52 districts have declared court vacancy “emergencies.” Twenty-two more empty benches are expected by year’s end.
The impact is felt throughout the country.
“Our nation is disadvantaged when our federal judiciary does not have sufficient judges to hear cases and resolve disputes in a thorough and timely fashion,” the American Bar Association explained.
“Persistent vacancies in a busy court increase the length of time that litigants and businesses wait for their day in court, create pressures to ‘robotize’ justice, and increase case backlogs that perpetuate delays in the future.”Life Site News report continues
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