“I just don’t think it is fair in any way to continue the practice we have seen on full display here,” Mr. McConnell said. “It is time for the Senate to change the practice before it becomes so pervasive that the genie never gets back in the bottle.”Democrats have multiple problems with the proposal, and one of them is named Garland. Democrats remain outraged by what they see as a stolen Supreme Court seat and say it was Mr. McConnell himself who pioneered the tactics they have adopted. “It has created some hard feelings because it was consciously done in the hopes that your party would win the next presidential election, and you did,” Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, told Mr. McConnell. Ms. Klobuchar noted that Mr. Trump had 53 district court judges confirmed compared with 15 for Mr. Obama in that period, and that Mr. Trump also won the confirmation of 30 appellate court judges by the midpoint of his tenure — the most ever.

Source: New York Times February 20, 2019 21:11 UTC