An unmentioned and
definitely unintended consequence of losing a Democrat majority in the Senate,
revolves around the federal judiciary and will bode well for the political
right. President Obama has tried to radically change America in the past
six years and that multifaceted effort, including his signature piece of
legislation in Obamacare, has left some areas lacking in even more radical
changes.
O getting ready to eat crow&negotiate w/"terrorists",but he's eaten dog,employs&is used to negotiating w/terrorists😄 pic.twitter.com/4Dk6V0lfcl
— Elizabeth Nelson (@ElizabethNels0n) November 5, 2014
Perhaps Obama thought that getting two female liberal progressive judges on the Supreme Court was enough to burnish his political legacy. In any event, there has been a slow down in the Obama administration's effort to fill the many vacancies in the federal judiciary. This slow down is understandable with all the other explosive and challenging issues that have mounted in the past two years. These multiple failures of leadership may well have been the distraction responsible for Obama's failure to nominate and push for Senate confirmation of even more liberal judges.
Obama's first six years in office may mark the peak of his influence on the judiciary, including the appointment of two Supreme Court justices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Legal experts say it's a record of unprecedented achievements in judicial diversity. Women make up 42% of his confirmed nominees, more than double the average of his five predecessors combined, while African Americans make up 18% and Latinos 6%. Eleven openly gay judges now serve where there was only one.
For liberal progressives, packing the federal judiciary has been a decades old strategy and the Obama administration has taken that task very seriously and has also been quite successful in the process. The three ongoing goals of liberal progressivism have always been to control three elements in society. Those three elements are education, health care and the judiciary.
For decades liberal progressives have managed to infiltrate the management and leadership of K12 education and virtually taken over higher education with an overwhelming majority of college faculties self identifying as liberals.
2010 saw liberal progressives become absolutely giddy over passing the Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare.
Should the GOP prevail in the Senate congressional midterm elections and manage to achieve a majority membership, the liberal progressive judicial confirmation train will slow down appreciably.
RT if you are doing the Snoopy Happy Dance ==> https://t.co/wSw5Ncwtil
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) November 5, 2014
Last November, Senate
Democrats eliminated the filibuster rule for most judicial nominees, allowing
them to approve dozens of nominations by a simple majority vote and freeing
Obama to look for more liberal nominees.But because Leahy, a fellow Democrat, allowed any home-state senator to block a nominee from committee consideration, the logjam was broken only in the 19 states with two Democratic senators. Often Obama has declined to nominate judges in states with Republican senators, leaving seven crucial appeals court seats, including the one on the 7th Circuit in Chicago, without a nominee.
Here's an important final point to note.
Democrats will attempt to push 25 more Obama nominees through the lame-duck Senate session that will start Nov. 12, but 27 more judges have announced they are leaving. That means total vacancies at the start of the year are likely to rise again slightly — to 65. Continue Reading LA Times
@nobamanoway DNC better watch how much "ramming" they do, B/C what's good for the Nuclear Option Goose is good for the Gander @ForceOptions
— Elizabeth Nelson (@ElizabethNels0n) November 5, 2014
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