Summary
Two Democratic-appointed federal judges have unretired after the 2024 election, preventing Trump from appointing replacements.
The judges’ decisions were influenced by the Senate’s “blue slip” policy, which requires support from home-state senators for presidential nominees.
Republican leaders, including Mitch McConnell, have criticized the judges’ actions as partisan, while Democrats are rushing to confirm as many judges as possible before Trump takes office.
Probably realized with 42 vacancies and Biden only nominating 12 of them, that Schumer and Biden just aren’t motivated enough to fill their seats even if they leave today.
Ah the good old “Dems just need to want it more”.
Well their is the norms of not appointing judges on a year of an election. Oh yah trump totally respected that.
That norm was also made up by McConnell because he didn’t want Obama to replace Scalia.
That was never a norm…
That was the party betting that enough SC seats up for grabs might get people to vote for Hillary, but they were wrong
Obama could seat someone on the legal rationale that while the Senate has the option to approve SC picks, there’s nothing that says they have to. So he was taking refusal of a confirmation as implicit confirmation and seating him.
Instead of, you know, just accepting that a SC seat was stolen.