McConnell sets stage for 'nuclear option' to change rules on judges is a story which should remind us of the way the senate majority leader has been using Donald Trump to advance his far-right agenda and shape the federal judiciary for generations to come. Briefly, he is introducing a resolution would reduce the amount of floor time that must elapse between when the Senate votes to invoke cloture on a federal district court judge nominee so when a final vote is held the hearing time is reduced from the current 30 hours to two hours.
The DonkeyHotey caricature illustrates the relationship between the sane and systematic McConnell as he blissfully ignores the unbalanced an impulsive rage-fueled president.
McConnell will go down in history, along with Paul Ryan and Devin Nunes as one of the three members of Congress who functioned as rubber stamps for Trump most authoritarian, dangerous and inhumane executive decisions. With the possible exception of Nunes (who conservative Max Boot in his Washington Post OpEd today called an “unscrupulous sycophant and unhinged partisan,” they knew full well that Donald Trump was so unstable, so driven by a combination of his need for self-aggrandizement and sometimes revenge, that he was unqualified to be president.
They allowed him to destroy our reputation among our allies (Israel is another story). They allowed him to empower white nationalists here and around the world. The list goes on.
Vladimir Putin manipulated Trump in an attempt to further Russian interests. He only succeeded to the extent that he caused chaos and divisiveness here, but he got little else for Russia. McConnell has already made his mark on the Supreme Court (where only the survival of Ruth Bader Ginsberg keeps it from being a total right-wing court) and the rest of the federal judiciary, which significantly is the only of the three branches of government not accountable to the voters.