Such was the crusade which Trump and McConnell had set on, that this entertaining WaPo opinion piece was written.
It remains one of my favorites.
“The whole landscape was barren, and the fires burned everywhere. And in the smoldering remains of the Senate, Mitch McConnell sat on a throne of skulls making preparations to confirm his 8,999th judge. Mitch McConnell would leave no vacancy behind.
The people were long gone. The streets were empty, and some old scraps of burned newspaper tossed on the hot, sulfurous wind. And Mitch McConnell was still confirming judges.
The sky was a dark, angry red. The sun was not visible and had not been visible for a long time. There were no longer any rhinoceroses whatsoever. There were exactly three birds. The halls of Congress were empty except for John Quincy Adams’s ghost and one hoarse buzzard perched on a cracked torso in Statuary Hall. And Mitch McConnell was still confirming judges.”
“On this, even President Donald Trump’s most fevered critics agree: He has left a deep imprint on the federal courts that will outlast his one term in office for decades to come.
He used the promise of conservative judicial appointments to win over Republican skeptics as a candidate. Then as president, he relied on outside conservative legal organizations and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to employ an assembly line-like precision to install more than 230 judges on the federal bench, including the three newest justices of the Supreme Court. Trump never tired of boasting about it.
Indeed, undeterred by Democratic criticism, the Senate was still confirming judges more than a month after Trump lost his reelection bid to Joe Biden.”
Trump and McConnell managed to appoint some 230 conservative federal judges, including three justices to the SCOTUS.
Remember, “she was never supposed to lose.”
The Democrats were saving these empty judgeships for Hillary to fill.
She lost; Trump won.
So he and McConnell set themselves on a mission to fill those vacancies.
I’m not telling you to love everything about McConnell, but I am telling you that the courts have shifted conservative for generations to come thanks to him and Trump.
And for that, a ‘thank you’ is in order. — Just Human
