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Thursday afternoon, the Senate Judiciary Committee headed by Lindsey Graham approved a slate of 44 judicial nominees for confirmation. This continues a fundamental reshaping of the the federal judiciary by the Trump administration with the assistance of the Federalist Society.
That’s a huge number at once; progressive judicial advocacy groups dubbed the committee’s hearing a “monster markup.”
But Democrats and progressive groups are not just alarmed by the number of Trump’s picks sailing through.
Many of these nominees have spent their careers attacking LGBTQ rights, abortion rights and voting rights, and now they’re on their way to holding lifetime seats on federal courts.
As Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) pointed out in Thursday’s hearing, more than 80 percent of Trump’s judicial nominees so far are members of the conservative Federalist Society. For some context, she noted that less than 4 percent of all American lawyers are members of that group.
“Month after month, we have seen a parade of these so-called conservative activists nominated to the federal courts,” Hirono said. “They have been groomed by conservative political ideologues.
They want to see Roe v. Wade overturned or narrowed into oblivion, LGBT people permanently consigned to the margins of American life, and constitutional and civil rights encroached [based] on the religious preference of a vocal few.”
Sirens are blaring and red lights are flashing across liberal organizations!
Here is a sampling of the people they hate:
originally posted by: r0xor
I'm not even a conservative, or much of a liberal for that matter, pretty moderate and lean to either side depending on the issue (more to the left but not a democrat). I think a conservative majority in the judiciary is very good, here's why:
If Trump loses for re-election in 2020 which he may, even if you doubt it we know it's always too close to predict especially if we're for or against it happening, and the democrats have the white house for 8 years leading to a mini liberal revolution or rapid advancement in society, we'll need a conservative judiciary as a check and balance the naive and foolish things they'll have to deal with.
originally posted by: xuenchen
Long term Democrat attempts to overload the system are notching down by the day 😎
Their schemes and plots are getting exposed 😎
Mass Panic
originally posted by: 727Sky
a reply to: carewemust
With all the common sense laws which have been put on hold or blocked by some of the liberal appointed judges these last several years I hope payback is in the makings and it goes for the jugular.
originally posted by: IgnoranceIsntBlisss
Just wait until he breaks out the Ultra-Super-Mega-Hyper-Conservative Judges.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
Seems Trump spent his limited time well where it counted the most...the Senate. For the left to lose the
Senate was a HUGE loss that no one on the left wants to talk about.
originally posted by: IkNOwSTuff
I love the smell of liberals tears in the morning
MAGA
Go Trump!!!
originally posted by: UKTruth
originally posted by: Xtrozero
Seems Trump spent his limited time well where it counted the most...the Senate. For the left to lose the
Senate was a HUGE loss that no one on the left wants to talk about.
I am afraid it's not as simple as that. The corruption is so deep in Washington that judges get flipped - even on the SC.
I dread to think how this is done by the left, but we know for certain that NO depth is too low for them to sink to.
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
a reply to: carewemust
What's to stop the next dem potus from stacking the courts with libs?