A major theme at this year’s Road to Majority conference was the Right’s aggressive takeover of the court system in the United States, which was a frequent topic of celebration among the pundits and politicians who spoke at the gathering last week.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was perhaps the most enthusiastic, and certainly the most self-satisfied, about the Trump-appointed judges being rapidly confirmed. He told conference attendees that that “single most consequential decision I’ve made in my entire political career was to not let Barrack Obama fill that [Antonin] Scalia vacancy on the way out the door,” for which he received a thunderous ovation from the audience.
McConnell celebrated the fact that Republicans were able to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the court and said he’s seen that same wins reflected in the lower courts, gloating that Republicans have confirmed “one-eighth of the circuit court judges in America” in the last year and a half, thanks to Trump.
“Admirers of Justice Scalia are all over the country now and we’ve been seeing them as the president sends up circuit judges, sends up […]
C’mon, Stephen. You know very well that this goal of the religious right has been ongoing for many, many years. I’ve been trying to tell friends this ever since I discovered it, during the Reagan years.. One of the main things they have in mind was to get rid of birth control. Go figure. All of those quickly-reproducing Catholics they hate so much ought to be dancing in the streets.
Yes, you are correct. Did I say something that gave you the idea I thought otherwise? It’s just that it has become more intense and better funded. Citizens United change the game.