May 2, 2023

Daily Kos: How the Senate Majority Can Play Hard Ball on Judicial Confirmations


ACS President Russ Feingold penned an op-ed in Daily Kos in which he lays out how the Democratic-controlled Senate can maximize this moment to advance President Biden's federal judicial nominees to ultimately fill the federal bench with diverse and qualified judges committed to the rule of law.

"I lay out all of these options to say this: the current Senate majority must be creative and think outside the box. It has several options. You better believe that if the tables were turned, the current minority would do whatever it needed to move its nominees to the floor and confirm them. For the Senate majority to sit idle in the face of this obstruction is self-defeating and enables the Senate minority to run the board."

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