Bloomberg Law: Progressive Groups Urge Democrats to Oppose Trump Judges
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on January 31, 2025.
Democrats generally were willing to cooperate when it came to finding nominees for their home-state courts during the first Trump administration, when Republicans also controlled the majority.
“For the past four years, Republican Senators used every tool at their disposal to slow and block Biden’s judicial nominees in their states, resulting in Trump having nearly 50 judicial vacancies to fill when he was sworn into office,” Jake Faleschini, justice program director at Alliance for Justice, said over email. “It is unfathomable to me that Democrats would work with Republicans at all on judges after their Republican colleagues treated them with such contempt and bad faith. It’s like watching Charlie Brown with the football.”