I'm dying!! McConnell actually said this...

[tarheelbybirth]

😂🤣😂🤣

McConnell cries foul after 2 Democratic judges cancel retirement after Trump victory​

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vented his displeasure Monday after two Democratic-appointed federal judges reversed their decisions to retire in what appear to be efforts to stop President-elect Trump from nominating their successors.

McConnell called the unusual decisions to forgo retirement following Trump’s sweeping victory last month a “partisan” gambit that would undermine the integrity of federal courts.

“They rolled the dice that a Democrat could replace them and now that he won’t, they’re changing their plans to keep a Republican from doing it,” McConnell said on the Senate floor.

“It’s a brazen admission. And the incoming administration would be wise to explore all available recusal options with these judges, because it’s clear now that they have a political finger on the scale,” he said.

“This sort of partisan behavior undermines the integrity of the judiciary. It exposes bold Democratic blue where there should only be black robes,” McConnell warned.


Absolutely ZERO self-awareness. 😂🤣😂🤣

 

[The-Dude-Abides]

Someone probably needs to turn him off and turn him back on again.

 

[InsaneHawkJJP]

 

[THE_DEVIL]

a “partisan” gambit that would undermine the integrity of federal courts.

 

[HROT]

Look at McConnell thinking he can live 6 months

 

[noStemsnoSTICKS]

😂🤣😂🤣

McConnell cries foul after 2 Democratic judges cancel retirement after Trump victory​

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) vented his displeasure Monday after two Democratic-appointed federal judges reversed their decisions to retire in what appear to be efforts to stop President-elect Trump from nominating their successors.

McConnell called the unusual decisions to forgo retirement following Trump’s sweeping victory last month a “partisan” gambit that would undermine the integrity of federal courts.

“They rolled the dice that a Democrat could replace them and now that he won’t, they’re changing their plans to keep a Republican from doing it,” McConnell said on the Senate floor.

“It’s a brazen admission. And the incoming administration would be wise to explore all available recusal options with these judges, because it’s clear now that they have a political finger on the scale,” he said.

“This sort of partisan behavior undermines the integrity of the judiciary. It exposes bold Democratic blue where there should only be black robes,” McConnell warned.


Absolutely ZERO self-awareness. 😂🤣😂🤣

So he's basically saying the government should decide when a person retires, rather than a person having the freedom of choice to retire.

It was cool when this use to be a free country.

 

[NorthernHawkeye]

I remember when Trump criticized a ruling referring to a specific judge as "an Obama judge".

Trump was criticized for that, prompting a response from Chief Justice Roberts who said "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them."

Of course everyone knows the judiciary is politicized.

 

[TJ8869]

On the surface it obviously seems hypocritical. But if you look a little deeper there’s a reason he’s angry. Last week McConnell and Schumer reached a deal in which Republicans agreed to allow 7 of Biden’s federal district judge nominees to move forward for a vote in exchange for withdrawing 4 of his appeals court nominees who probably didn’t have enough votes for confirmation anyway. McConnell feels like this potentially changes that deal.

 

[GOHOX69]

Someone probably needs to turn him off and turn him back on again.

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Pr#6 on the ole apple 2

 

[The-Dude-Abides]

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Pr#6 on the ole apple 2

This might be an unplug everything and wait a few minutes type of situation.

 

[lucas80]

On the surface it obviously seems hypocritical. But if you look a little deeper there’s a reason he’s angry. Last week McConnell and Schumer reached a deal in which Republicans agreed to allow 7 of Biden’s federal district judge nominees to move forward for a vote in exchange for withdrawing 4 of his appeals court nominees who probably didn’t have enough votes for confirmation anyway. McConnell feels like this potentially changes that deal.

He's bad at making deals, then. If they didn't discuss that, then it wasn't part of the deal, and how does he blame individual judges who made life decisions on their own? Are you saying Schumer coerced the judges to decide to stay on the bench? Also, didn't a bunch sneak through the prior week because several GOP senators were at a Space X launch trying to suck up to Eloon and the GOP couldn't block them?

 

[lucas80]

Didn't Kentucky change how senator vacancies are filled because the legislature was petrified that Beshear would get the chance to fill Mitch's seat? That seems partisan, and, something, something that would harm the legitimacy of the process.

 

[fredjr82]

On the surface it obviously seems hypocritical. But if you look a little deeper there’s a reason he’s angry. Last week McConnell and Schumer reached a deal in which Republicans agreed to allow 7 of Biden’s federal district judge nominees to move forward for a vote in exchange for withdrawing 4 of his appeals court nominees who probably didn’t have enough votes for confirmation anyway. McConnell feels like this potentially changes that deal.

F McConnell, the MAGAts and their feelings. LOL.

hEs aNGrY!!! Shocker TJ can find justification for "practice what you preach" 4 years later. GFY

 

[Chewback]

Look at McConnell thinking he can live 6 months

He looks like he might not have 6 minutes.

 

[TJ8869]

He's bad at making deals, then. If they didn't discuss that, then it wasn't part of the deal, and how does he blame individual judges who made life decisions on their own?

I don’t know if they discussed it, but the judges announced two years ago they were going to take senior status next year and I think that factored into Mitch’s equation when negotiating the deal. Maybe he wouldn’t have made the same deal if he knew the judges were going to reverse their decisions.

 

[TJ8869]

Didn't Kentucky change how senator vacancies are filled because the legislature was petrified that Beshear would get the chance to fill Mitch's seat? That seems partisan, and, something, something that would harm the legitimacy of the process.

Yes, they changed the policy in April. And at the risk of “both sidesing” the issue, Massachusetts Democrats did it twice. They took the power away from Mitt Romney in 2004 so couldn’t name a replacement for John Kerry if he had won POTUS. And then five years later they gave it back to Deval Patrick when Ted Kennedy was dying.

 

[lucas80]

I don’t know if they discussed it, but the judges announced two years ago they were going to take senior status next year and I think that factored into Mitch’s equation when negotiating the deal. Maybe he wouldn’t have made the same deal if he knew the judges were going to reverse their decisions.

That's a lot of words to say it was never part of the deal.

 

[Chishawk1425]

I don’t know if they discussed it, but the judges announced two years ago they were going to take senior status next year and I think that factored into Mitch’s equation when negotiating the deal. Maybe he wouldn’t have made the same deal if he knew the judges were going to reverse their decisions.

Lol. **** them

 

[TJ8869]

That's a lot of words to say it was never part of the deal.

It was part of Mitch’s calculus when he made the deal. I know you realize that because I know you’re not an idiot.

 

[lucas80]

It was part of Mitch’s calculus when he made the deal. I know you realize that because I know you’re not an idiot.

Sure. People made decisions about their own lives, McConnell should unwed his panties. He'll have two years to cram the courts full of Aileen Cannon types.

 

[BelemNole]

It was part of Mitch’s calculus when he made the deal. I know you realize that because I know you’re not an idiot.

That’s on Mitch then, isn’t it?

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Mitch the Bitch

 

[Jimmy McGill]

Mitch, Chuck, Nancy, etc. All evidence based research on why we need term limits.

 

[TJ8869]

That’s on Mitch then, isn’t it?

I suppose that’s one way to look at it. If it’s “on you” when you make a deal based on what other people have said they’re going to do and then some of those people reverse course and do something else then, yes, it’s “on Mitch”.

By your same logic, if Mitch changes his mind and scraps the deal he made with Schumer and instead blocks the confirmation of those 7 district judges then that’s “on Chuck”.

Right?