Here, h/t How Appealing.
An excerpt:
Say you are having a bourbon tonight with your neighbor and you tell him:
The Senate has 17 smart, willing people ready to come to work for the federal government. They have been vetted by their profession. They have been vetted by the White House. And they have been vetted by the Congress in the form of the Judiciary Committee. There is a great need for these people to be approved so that they can get to work. And there’s already been evidence that there is little to no substantive opposition to their nominations. Yet they cannot get about their vital jobs because one party in Congress wants to slow down the pace of the president’s judicial nominations.
How would your neighbor respond? Would he say that the nation is better off letting those 17 would-be judges cool their heels for another few months while litigants all over America are forced to wait longer for their day in court? Would he say that “judicial emergencies” are just a”manufactured” controversy and that all those litigants deserve to wait for justice because the president made a few recess appointments a while ago? Or would he just shake his head and say: “No wonder congressional popularity is at an all-time low.”
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