Republican Senator Charles Grassley Credit: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans ended a century-old tradition Thursday that will accelerate the appointment of right-wing federal judges in purple and blue states, where they will preside over thousands of cases that will never reach the Supreme Court.
The move, led by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley of Iowa, was the most egregious partisan intervention in the judiciary since Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked 2016 hearings on President Obama’s final Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, which would have given the court a center-left majority. (After the 2016 election, conservative Neil Gorsuch was appointed and confirmed.)
“Michael Brennan gets voted out of Senate Judiciary Committee along party lines despite fact that he refused to acknowledge implicit racial bias in the justice system,” tweeted Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, and former head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division under President Obama. “Grassley kills the blue slip tradition with this vote. Brennan voted out over objection […]
What the unrighteousness “Right” is doing,continues to do, to our system of governance is purely vile.
The courts are already a joke…certainly very little justice anyway. I sure don’t understand why the left is obsessed with democracy. The founders never intended for the United States to be a democracy, and for good reason. Democracy is the 51 percent getting its way whether the 49 percent likes it or not..enforced by violence or threat of violence of those at the reins of government at the time. A recipe for disaster. Of course, the oligarchic control grid we call the federal gov now isn’t any better. Time for a different way.