A White Home spokesperson on Monday pushed again on President-elect Trump’s demand that the Democratic Senate cease confirming judges in the course of the lame-duck interval earlier than he takes workplace and the higher chamber flips to GOP management.
Senior deputy press secretary Andrew Bates in a press release pointed to previous precedent and the “real-life toll” such a pause would tackle constituents to reject Trump’s request, which the Republican posted over the weekend on social media.
“Regardless of party, the American people expect their leaders to prioritize the rule of law and ensuring the criminal justice system can function effectively in every state,” Bates mentioned in a press release to The Hill. “Delaying the confirmation of strongly qualified, experienced judges takes a real-life toll on constituents and leads to backlogs of criminal cases — meaning there is every urgent reason for Republicans and Democrats to continue working together in good faith to staff the federal bench.”
Bates famous that the then-GOP-led Senate confirmed 55 nominee in the course of the lame-duck interval of Trump’s first time period after President Biden had gained the 2020 election, together with 18 judges.
“There is no excuse for choosing partisanship over enforcing the rule of law,” Bates mentioned.
Democrats nonetheless maintain a slim majority within the Senate till the brand new session of Congress will get seated in early January. Republicans are poised to have at the very least 52 Senate seats within the subsequent Congress, with GOP nominee David McCormick main within the Pennsylvania race that’s nonetheless too near name.
Trump weighed in on the continued GOP Senate management race Sunday, posting on Fact Social that anybody searching for the highest job should be prepared to make recess appointments, which might permit a president to nominate nominees with out going by the affirmation course of.
In the identical submit, Trump wrote that “no Judges should be approved during this period of time because the Democrats are looking to ram through their Judges as the Republicans fight over Leadership.”
