Tonight Mike Morrill, Director of Keystone Progress, explained to the Carbon County Democrats for Progress how Senate Republicans are abusing the Constitutional mandate to “advise and consent” on appointments to the federal judiciary.
In Pennsylvania alone there are seven vacancies in the federal courts, but the Republicans are holding up all of the President’s judicial appointments, and will try to do so until next year. They are hoping for a greater majority in the Senate and a Republican president elected in 2016.
I don’t think many people realize how far Republicans are willing to go to destroy the traditions of American democracy for partisan advantage. Trashing campaign finance laws, voter suppression, gerrymandering, wrecking the federal judiciary--they are attempting to make this nation a one-party state. I know that I sound like an alarmist, but it is time we are alarmed.
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