No more judges

No more judges

by digby

ICYWW President Obama has gotten all he's going to get:
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that he doesn't expect to confirm any of Obama's circuit court nominees for the remainder of his time in office, a blow to White House efforts to fill empty federal court seats despite working with a Republican-controlled Senate.

In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, McConnell was asked about judicial confirmations.

"So far, the only judges we’ve confirmed have been federal district judges that have been signed off on by Republican senators,” McConnell said. Asked if he expects that to be the case through 2016, McConnell said, "I think that's highly likely, yeah."

There you go. That advise and consent thing now means that the Senate chooses the nominee, period. Well, if it's a Republican Senate. Democrats would never be so rude as to issue a blanket rejection of all of a Republican president's nominees and tell him that Democratic Senators would be doing the choosing from now on. Wouldn't be nice.

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