The Supreme Court is a big fucking deal. But the Republican blockade is just the most obvious example of how Mitch McConnell's Republican Senate is breaking yet another branch of government.
Of 673 U.S. district court judgeships, 67—or 10 percent—are vacant under President Obama, nearly twice as many as at this point of Republican George W. Bush's presidency and 50 percent higher than at this time under Bill Clinton (D) or George H.W. Bush (R), according to data kept by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts.
The number of federally designated district court "judicial emergencies"—where seats carry particularly heavy caseloads or have been open for an extended period—is also roughly double what it was in May 2008 and May 2000, according to the administrative office. […]
Even before the current crisis, mounting caseloads and standoffs between the White House and Senate had lengthened the average time it took to get civil lawsuits to trial in federal courts by 63 percent and for criminal cases by 16 percent in the decade ending in 2013, according to a Syracuse University study of court data.
Extrapolating it out, this means that McConnell and crew are just fine with Donald Trump picking the Supreme Court, and they're working for a whole federal judiciary determined by the racist megalomaniac. They want a federal judiciary shaped for generations in his vision.
McConnell and his merry band are ready for the ranks from which future Supreme Court justices are picked being forged by Trump. That can't happen. To make sure it doesn't, don't just fight to beat Trump. Fight to oust the Republican Senate.
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