Republicans confirmed judges during the final weeks of Donald Trump’s first term. But the president-elect says Democrats should not do the same.
By Tobi Raji and Clara Ence Morse, The Washington PostSenate Democrats are staring down a shrinking timeline to confirm more than two
On Sunday, Trump demanded that Senate Republicans refrain from helping their Democratic counterparts confirm judges, hoping to keep as many judgeships open It is uncommon for presidents to push nominees through in the lame-duck session, but it happened during Trump’s final weeks in office four years ago. The Senate, which was under Republican control, confirmed 14 Trump-nominated judges after Joe Biden was elected but before he took office.
“Every judicial seat in America matters for the protection of our rights and our communities,” Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the fair courts program and an adviser at the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said in a statement Tuesday. “For our democracy and for our communities, the confirmation of judges now is both urgent and necessary to ensure we have more jurists across the country who will uphold the rule of law and advance equal justice.
faced strong opposition from Republicans and some Democrats who questioned his ties to various groups, including a law school center for Muslim, Arab and South Asian Americans. The White House has called efforts to block his nomination a “cruel, Islamophobic, smear campaign.” Lauren Wodarski, a spokesperson for Cortez Masto, told The Post on Tuesday that the senator still opposes Mangi’s nomination.
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