According to recent reports, the Republican Party recently outmaneuvered outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). Schumer’s office recently addressed a report that Democrats agreed to cede four appeals court nominations to allow for the confirmation of other lower-tier federal judicial nominees appointed by Joe Biden.
However, as the Senate has approved Biden’s appointments, Republicans have hit back, creating hurdles to delay the confirmation of others. Politico reported on the comments from a spokesperson on behalf of Sen. Schumer, who said, “The trade was four circuit nominees — all lacking the votes to get confirmed — for more than triple the number of additional judges moving forward.”
Democrats have been scrambling to confirm as many of President Biden’s appointees before the balance of power shifts in Congress, as Republicans decisively took the House and Senate in the 2024 presidential election. However, Schumer revealed that the deal Democrats struck with Republicans would allow the confirmation of 12 lower-court judges in exchange for the withdrawal of the remaining Biden appeals court nominees.
Legal expert Mike Davis weighed in on the on the move, explaining that it was a good deal for Republicans. “What we’ve been able to save with this are the four critically important slots to these circuit courts. And so that’s the win, right?” he said during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room. “That’s the big win. Because these would have been filled by Joe Biden with these radical judges, and by the war room posse lighting up the Senate switchboard.”
Davis added that the four slots will be filled with Trump nominees, a major win for the GOP. “There are now four slots that are going to be filled by Trump appellate court judges instead of by Biden radicals. And that’s the takeaway from this. That’s what’s so big about what the war room posse was able to do here,” Davis added.
The American Tribune reported on other troubling news regarding prominent congressional Democrats, where former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is facing blame for the massive “electoral collapse” that Democrats endured in the 2024 election, in which $1 billion went down the drain. It was argued that Pelosi’s leadership should come to an end as the party must change direction.
Fox News Contributor Miranda Devine wrote in an op-ed, “It’s high time to shatter the myth of Nancy Pelosi as a master strategist. Nobody deserves more blame than the ridiculously self-titled “speaker emerita” for the Democrats’ $1 billion electoral collapse.” She added, “Under her ruthless leadership, her party lost the White House, the House, the Senate and the popular vote. You can’t say that enough.”
Watch legal scholar Michael Davis explain how congressional Democrats were swindled by the shrewd political maneuvering of the GOP:
“She’s the only speaker in history to have lost control of the House twice. She’s finished,” Devine noted. Despite these leadership failures, she pointed out, “Yet she still has the nerve to reward herself with another term, filing the papers last week to run for re-election in 2026, at the tender age of 86! She’ll be 88 at the end of Trump’s term.”
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