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Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Lower Court Appointments

Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Lower Court Appointments

President Donald Trump seized the public’s attention when he capitalized on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by promptly nominating her successor, Amy Coney Barrett, and duly cementing a powerful conservative majority on the Supreme Court before Americans could even appropriately celebrate the life of the pathbreaking jurist. This accelerated Senate confirmation one week before the presidential and senatorial elections illuminates the extreme hypocrisy of President Trump and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (KY), who refused to…

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