McConnell's push to confirm judges may mean another tradition is dead - Roll Call

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The number of vacancies when Trump became president was maximized by McConnell, who as majority leader in 2015 and 2016 was able to slow the number of confirmations to a trickle toward the end of Obama’s presidency. 

During Trump’s tenure, the Senate has filled nearly all vacancies in the country’s appeals courts, and some Republicans are now calling for older judges to step aside.

“If you’re a circuit judge in your mid-60s, late 60s, you can take senior status, now would be a good time to do that, if you want to make sure the judiciary is right of center,” Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham said in a recent interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. 

A tradition, not a rule

In 2008, in the waning months of Republican George W. Bush’s presidency, Minority Leader McConnell slammed the majority Democrats’ “obsession” with the Thurmond Rule, saying, “This rule that doesn’t exist is just an excuse for our colleagues to run out the clock on qualified nominees.”

He went on to warn that what was occurring then “or, more accurately, what is not going on, is yet another step backward in politicizing the confirmation process.”

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