'Everyone in America should be outraged':McConnell quietly rams through more lifetime Trump judges

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while blocking COVID-19 relief

September 16, 2020

By Jake Johnson, Common Dreams

“It’s outrageous that McConnell continues to prioritize the Trump court takeover amid the pandemic. Enough.”

As Covid-19 relief for jobless and hungry Americans, collapsing small businesses, and state and local governments languishes in the Senate GOP’s legislative graveyard, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday further advanced his years-long project of dragging U.S. federal courts to the right by ramming through three more of President Donald Trump’s lifetime judicial nominees and teed up votes on several others.

Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, noted on Twitter that the latest confirmations came four months to the day after the Democrat-controlled House passed the Heroes Act, a $3 trillion coronavirus relief package that McConnell dismissed as an “unserious liberal wish list” and blocked from receiving a vote in the Senate.

“As McConnell blocks the Heroes Act, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, election funding, and dozens of civil rights bills, his priority today (amid the pandemic) will be confirming three more Trump judges after confirming three yesterday. It’s an outrage.”
—Vanita Gupta, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

“Everyone in America should be outraged that this is how Mitch McConnell is spending the Senate’s time amid a pandemic,” tweeted Gupta.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/09/everyone-in-america-should-be-outraged-mitch-mcconnell-quietly-rams-through-more-lifetime-trump-judges-while-blocking-19-relief/

[Bayard]

1. Outrage yes, but not enough

McConnell has to GO! The damage he can do between now, and January when McGrath boots him out, seems unstoppable. Especially when it seems Dems have a--why bother?--attitude.

"While Senate Democrats don’t have the numbers to block Trump’s judicial nominees, few even bothered to object Wednesday to the confirmations of John Holcomb, Stanley Blumenfeld, and Mark Scarsi to lifetime positions on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Just 12 Democratic senators voted against Holcomb and Scarsi, and only four voted against Blumenfeld."

[cilla4progress]

2. They don't believe in democracy -

they believe in one-party rule; theocracy; christofascism.

[BSdetect]

3. He needs to be investigated. A corrupt turd.

[beachbumbob]

4. We knew this would the case and our anger should be at

those in 2016 could care less when they voted Jill Stein or did not vote. Those people knew better and didn't matter we have thus outcome

[bluestarone]

5. SCARY! How many more can TURTLEFACE install before

Dec 31st? Wish a bunch of these motherfucker rethuglicons would die!

[Greybnk48]

6. All of his appointment who were deemed unqualified should

Be reviewed when he’s gone. An ideologue should not be permitted to force their agenda on the U.S. this way. There must be a loop-hole to reopen the assessment of the Judges who were deemed unfit by their peers.