HuffPost: Ryan Park, Biden Court Pick Stalled In The Senate, Withdraws His Nomination
This excerpt is from a piece that originally ran on December 12, 2024.
Some progressive judicial advocacy groups delivered sleeping bags to Democratic senators’ offices on Tuesday, along with a message: “Work late. Work weekends. Confirm every judge.”
“Every vacancy that doesn’t get a Biden judge will be left for Trump to fill with a loyalist committed to dismantling our rights,” Keith Thirion of the Alliance for Justice said in a statement. “There’s still time to finish every confirmation, including all four circuit court nominations.”
They found an ally in at least one Democratic senator: Elizabeth Warren.
“It’s important to remember that Democrats in the Senate still have power, and how we use that power in the final weeks of this Congress really sets the tone for how we’re going to fight back,” the Massachusetts senator said in a statement.
“When Republicans were in charge, they ran ‘all the way through the tape,’ a phrase that then leader [Mitch] McConnell used,” she said. “Democrats need to do the same. This is the moment we need to keep pushing to run through the tape.”