Mitch McConnell has to have the record of doing nothing in the USA Senate than any majority leader in history. It isn't just this year, it is every time he is majority leader. Every year the Republican majority sits in the US Senate absolutely nothing gets done that benefits the American people, the wealthy sure, but, the people no.
If Joni Ernst is frustrated, just imagine how the people feel, especially Iowa. The tragedy rolling out in Iowa has to be a record in the degree people are suffering.
The Republican Senate has become the USA Obstructionist Senate. They don't get things done.
June 10, 2019
By Burgess Everett and Marianne Levine
The Senate (click here) is going to get back to good old-fashioned legislating any day now. Republicans swear it.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s Senate has been almost entirely focused on confirming President Donald Trump’s personnel and judges and has had little in the way of recent legislative victories.
“It is frustrating,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), a top Democratic target in 2020, said of the Senate standstill. “But we are still working on a number of really good bills.”
The paltry list of accomplishments has given Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer an opening to portray the GOP as devoid of any agenda and could endanger Republicans at risk in a tough election cycle. And there’s a growing recognition within the GOP that it needs to do more.
McConnell and his deputy, Majority Whip John Thune of South Dakota, are telling committee chairmen to start approving bills and get them ready for the floor, according to Republican senators. Some lawmakers are optimistic that by August, they will have passed a bill lowering health care costs along with defense policy legislation. Approval of a new North American trade deal this year is also a possibility, as is a bipartisan deal to lift stiff budget caps....
One could almost defend the concentration on appointing judges to the federal bench if it were to fully staff courts that hear immigration issues. But, the trouble is the judges that are being appointed to such gaps in courtrooms are bad judges.
So, McConnell is pushing judges through the Senate only to have the country complain to the DOJ to have them removed. These complaints are not frivolous, there are records that come to bear to account for all the complaints. The Republican Obstructionist Senate aren't even vetting these appointments.
It is going to be a disaster and bog down the courts even longer. The cases Nicholas R. Ford decides sometimes ends up the Appealate Courts only to have his decisions overturned for ABUSE OF DISCRETION. (click here) That means Ford legislates from the bench based on his ideology and not the Rule of Law.
May 16, 2019
By Emily Hoerner
Nicholas R. Ford, (click here) who left behind a checkered record when he retired from the Cook County circuit court last month, has a new job: Ford was appointed this week as a U.S. Immigration Court judge, based in San Francisco.
The appointment immediately drew criticism from one progressive lawyers group, the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area, which strongly condemned the move and called on the Department of Justice to immediately rescind Ford’s appointment to the bench.
“As someone who has dedicated his career to perpetuating racist state violence, Judge Ford has no place in a courtroom,” said the advocacy group’s executive director, Jay Kim, in a news release. “He is particularly unfit for Immigration Court, where he will be deciding the fate of asylum seekers and torture victims.”
Kim said her group does not frequently oppose judicial appointments but based on the circumstances felt it was necessary. The group will be tracking Ford’s work through their immigration court observation program....
So rather than studying a topic, researching where the law is failing the people and bringing legislation out of committee for a vote; McConnell has decided to DO NOTHING and legislate from the bench. By placing ideological judges in the courts it will clog the courts sending more and more cases to the appellate courts. That is not what any of the courts in the USA need. They need competent judges that make constitutional decisions that don't turn criminals out on the streets because of abuse of power.
If the only way the American people can have a competent Senate lead by someone with good moral judgment is to kick McConnell out, then kick McConnell out. Replace him with a Senator that actually loves the country beyond the power afforded those that governor. Or are supposed to govern.
There is no room in the USA Senate for Mitch "Grime Reaper" McConnell.
