Trump rages as absent Senate Republicans help confirm Biden judges

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Axios

6 hours ago


President-elect Trump is demanding that Senate Republicans show up and try to stop Democrats from confirming more judges.

Why it matters: President Biden is now 15 judicial confirmations away from the record set by Trump in his first term.

Trump posted Wednesday on "X": "The Democrats are trying to stack the Courts with Radical Left Judges on their way out the door. Republican Senators need to Show Up and Hold the Line — No more Judges confirmed before Inauguration Day!"

Democrats confirmed two more judges on Wednesday by 50-48 margins, with Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Mike Braun (Indiana) missing the votes.

If they'd voted, Vice President Harris would have been unavailable to break the 50-50 tie as she's currently vacationing in Hawaii.

Cruz arrived back in D.C. on Wednesday, leaving Braun as the only member still absent.

The issue came up in a GOP lunch on Wednesday. Senators discussed whether there was a way for him to resign and someone to fill his seat faster. Braun was elected governor of Indiana in November.

"I am very angry – 90% of success in life is showing up," Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) told reporters.

"I've got a 4th Circuit nominee that if my colleagues show up on my side I've secured Democratic votes to defeat. That is very personal to me," he said.

"I had a member ask me, 'Well, when is the vote?' I said, 'When you're not here,'" Tillis told reporters.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/11/20/trump-senate-judges-confirmations

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. Bully

Frankly I'm sick of headlines that characterize his behavior as anything but INSANE. It would be lovely if we could come together as a group and demand that headline writers do better. Because let's face it, headlines are all most people see.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. The "tabloid" sites go full blown with that type of headline

The "mainstream" ones rarely will or won't go there at all.

[eShirl]

2. If they'd voted, Vice President Harris would have been unavailable to break the 50-50 tie as she's currently vacationing

"If they'd voted, Vice President Harris would have been unavailable to break the 50-50 tie as she's currently vacationing in Hawaii."

I really wish she would be close enough to get there if/when needed.

[JoseBalow]

3. Most importantly, drumpf doesn't want Joe to beat his record!

What a pathetic little clown

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

6. +1000

It's why getting rid of the Affordable Care Act will continue to obsess him. Everytime someone calls it Obamacare his rage gland gets triggered. First, because his name isn't on it ("Trumpcare" ) and second, because a black man's is.

For the next four years we're probably going to get tired of headlines beginning, "Trump rages..."

He probably doesn't get through a day without seeing in his mind the image of Senator McCain dramatically turning a thumb's down on what possibly could have been the low point of his first term -- and that's a high bar to clear.

[republianmushroom]

5. The orange republican god/master has spoken little's, dudes, mine your master.