New Jersey Star-Ledger: A MAGA judge for NJ? You can thank Democrats
This excerpt is from an editorial that originally ran on December 1, 2024.
“If more aggressive scheduling had happened on this vote, we might not be in this situation right now to begin with,” said Jake Faleschini, a program director with the liberal judicial advocacy group Alliance for Justice.
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What this ultimately amounts to, though, is Schumer trading away four of the most powerful court seats for next to nothing – because while Republicans have been dragging out the confirmations of the lower district court nominees, which would have forced everybody to work long hours over the holidays, they couldn’t have stopped them entirely.
“What should have been done instead is, Democrats should have stayed in nights, weekends, whatever it took, to get votes on all of them. And trading off these four circuits is a bad trade,” Faleschini of Alliance for Justice told us.