Seven Republican senators voted Tuesday to confirm the D.C. Superior Court’s newest Democratic judge to a 15-year term. That might not be a surprise under normal circumstances, but the judicial nominations were Republicans’ first chance to show some resistance to Democratic legal challenges after the fraudulent trial conviction of Donald Trump plunged the country into a constitutional crisis.
Among the seven Republicans who have lent their hands to the Biden administration are the usual suspects, such as Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah). Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) plays the conservative on TV but certainly agrees with President Joe Biden’s judicial policies. The final three, Sens. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina), James Lankford (R-Oklahoma) and Mike Rounds (R-South Carolina), have no excuse.
Republicans continue to support their own prosecution, which would be shocking if it were hard to believe.
What’s crazy is that these seven Republicans gave their approval to the Democratic judicial policies in the midst of persecuting the former president.
I wanted toDemocrats did not need any votes for approval.
Since President Trump’s conviction last week, Republicans have been stumped, unsure of what to do (if anything at all). Even those determined to act are limited in their power and fear overpromising and underdelivering, and so far no Republican senator has shown any appetite for the parliamentary procedures needed to halt day-to-day business.
On the activist side, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) became the 11th Republican to sign a letter pledging to vote against non-defense nominees and block spending increases, but she will need broader caucus support to affect spending plans and truly wreak havoc on business as usual.
What’s even more frustrating is that for more than half a century, it’s been acceptable for the opposing party to try to block the White House’s judicial nominees during a presidential election year. The practice, known as the Thurmond rule, dates back to 1968. Even the extremely low bar of blocking spending increases by not cooperating on judicial nominations is too high for Republican leaders, but Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has signaled his opposition.
Meanwhile, Democrats continue to forge ahead. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Tuesday charged former Republican attorneys Kenneth Chesbro and Jim Troupis, along with Republican political activist Mike Roman, with “falsification” in connection to efforts to challenge the 2020 election.
Major media reports might tempt you to believe that the three men, wearing fake mustaches, dark sunglasses and black fedoras, were trying to trick Congress into naming Trump the winner, but in fact they were trying to compile a separate slate of electors in case a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s election was successful.
Democrats have accused Republicans of orchestrating “fake electors,” a phrase that has been used throughout corporate media reports. However, the term is a myth. Before Democrats began suing Republicans, the preferred phrase was “alternate slate of electors.” John F. Kennedy used this legal tactic successfully in Hawaii in 1960. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens
Referenced In a dissenting opinion in 2000 Bush v. GoreMore recently, Democratic commentator Van Jones and Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig have CNN Op-edHe explained how Democrats can legally challenge the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania.
That doesn’t mean it was the best strategy; it just wasn’t completely out of the ordinary. Now it’s a crime, and just as the absurd phrase “planned” flooded media reports when Democratic reporters tried to excuse the Benghazi attacks, “fake electors” has become a buzzword to describe anyone trying to contest the 2020 election.
And questioning is a new red line. “Donald Trump is threatening our democracy,” Biden tweeted last week. “First he questioned our electoral system. Then he questioned our judicial system.”
It’s incredible, but shocking, that while some Democratic state officials are trying to remove Trump from the election and other Democratic state officials continue to prosecute Republican activists, Republicans in Washington, D.C., continue to support their own prosecutions.
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In other news
White House tries to sabotage bipartisan ICC sanctions
The House of Representatives passed the International Criminal Court sanctions bill by a vote of 247 to 155 on Tuesday, with 42 Democrats voting against Biden’s attempt to block the sanctions.
Party leaders met over the weekend to negotiate sanctions imposed in response to an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York and Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, the House foreign affairs ranking member, leading the negotiations.
Democratic leaders withdrew from the talks after the White House voiced opposition to the sanctions, criticizing them as overbroad, but dozens of party members also walked away.
The fire is burning: Blaze News: The United Methodist Church lost over one million members in one day as the group stood up for “God and His Word.”
Mainline Protestantism is in crisis. For decades, many of its leaders have abandoned traditional Christianity to succumb to the appeal of populist leftism, while their followers have fled. Increasingly, it is the Global South that is leading the fight back. The United Methodist Church is the latest church to experience mass exodus after embracing LGBT policies. As Blaze News’ Chris Enloe reports:
The Ivory Coast United Methodist Church voted May 28 to withdraw from the UMC, weeks after the church voted to allow practicing LGBT clergy and end its ban on same-sex marriage.
The West African Methodists have decided to leave the UMC “for reasons of conscience before God and His Word, the highest authority on faith and life.” According to EMUCI, the UMC’s decision to embrace LGBT culture and same-sex marriage “departs from the Bible.” The UMC church is therefore a “sacrificial” church.[ing] Respecting the LGBTQ community means honoring it and being true to it.”
…Over the past few years, thousands of UMC churches in the United States have left the UMC to join the Global Methodist Church or They remained independent. They abandoned the liberal tendencies of the sect.
The Korean Methodist Church, which boasts about 1.5 million members, may also soon leave the UMC.
