Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) announced Thursday that he would oppose the judicial nomination of Thomas Farr in the Eastern District of North Carolina, reversing his position from the day before.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) joined a rally on Wednesday to oppose Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
The White House formally withdrew the nomination of federal prosecutor Ryan Bounds for a spot on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Tuesday after Sens. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Friday torpedoed his nomination despite broad establishment backing.
Jake Tapper of CNN failed Sunday to ask Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) about his role last week in tanking the nomination of Ryan Bounds to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Republican Sens. Marco Rubio and Tim Scott torpedoed a conservative nominee to the Ninth Circuit appeals court on Thursday whom even liberals called qualified for the bench, citing college-era political comments, energizing Democrats, and creating a new line of attack against the confirmations of dozens of other judicial picks, including Brett Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court.
Democrats are trying to resurrect a way to block President Trump’s judicial nominees with “blue slips” as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares for a hearing Wednesday on the nomination of Ryan Bounds to be a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
