Democrats Better Wake Up When It Comes To the Courts

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (right) and Sen. Dick Durbin (AP photo)

You’d think that the fiasco that is our corrupt U.S. Supreme Court would have shown Democrats the importance of filling as many federal judicial openings as possible when they’re in a position to do so by controlling the Senate and the presidency.

You’d think that. Wouldn’t you?

Now, an interesting piece on the Slate website by Christopher Kang – former deputy counsel to President Barrack Obama whose duties included working in the judiciary appointment process – is warning us that slow-moving Democrats are in the process of flushing a good part of that opportunity down the toilet.

In his column — Democrats are Headed for a Disaster With Unfilled Judicial Vacancies — Kang writes that after President Joe Biden’s flying start in filling judicial openings, the process has now bogged down to the point that Democrats are on track to leave 60 court vacancies unfilled by the end of this year.

If the GOP gets control of the Senate after that, its leader Sen. Mitch McConnell will be able to block the rest of them, just as he did with Obama Supreme Court recommendation Merrick Garland and dozens of lower court nominees.

Now what?

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