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Senate set for late night time as battle over judicial nominees rages on

Editorial Board Published November 21, 2024
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The Senate is ready for a late night time on Wednesday, as Democrats try to shepherd by way of numerous judicial nominees to fill vacancies weeks earlier than they hand over management of the higher chamber to Republicans in January. 

The chamber is ready to carry votes that would final into Thursday as a part of the push, marking the second night time the place members can be burning the midnight oil. That judicial offensive kicked off on Monday, when Democrats unexpectedly sought to advance greater than a dozen judges, together with a extremely contentious circuit court docket nominee. 

That prompted Republicans to pump the brakes and make life arduous for his or her colleagues by holding procedural votes to modify the chamber from govt to legislative session and again once more, dragging out the votes within the course of.

The method will occur as soon as once more Wednesday night time. 

“We’ll continue working on judges throughout the day and into this evening,” mentioned Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) throughout his ground remarks. “We have a lot of excellent nominees to work through, so I ask my colleagues to be flexible, to be ready to stay late and to keep the votes moving quickly.” 

On prime of the judicial votes taken Wednesday morning and early afternoon, senators are set to vote on a trio of resolutions provided by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that will block transfers of tank rounds, mortars and bomb steerage kits to Israel. This set will begin round 6 p.m. 

These can be adopted by a vote on Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) decision that will block the Biden administration from canceling greater than $4.5 billion in repayments by Ukraine to the U.S. 

Judicial votes are anticipated to ultimately comply with on the nominations of Sparkle Sooknanan and Brian Murphy to develop into district judges for the districts of D.C. and Massachusetts, respectively. 

One supply famous that the checklist represented the present plan, however that it might be altered relying on adjustments in attendance.

As they’ve all week, absences are anticipated to play a job as soon as once more for Republicans, which paved the best way for numerous judicial nominees to win affirmation this week. Headlining that checklist was the vote on Embry Kidd, who was confirmed to the eleventh Circuit Courtroom of Appeals on Monday when 5 Senate Republicans had been no-shows. If that they had all proven up, the GOP might have defeated the nomination. 

The identical scenario got here into play on Wednesday, when Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) and Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) individually voted in opposition to two district court docket nominees, leaving Democrats with solely 50 votes and unable to interrupt a tie, as Vice President Harris is in Hawaii. 

Nonetheless, not all Senate GOP members had been current. Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.) missed each, whereas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) missed the morning vote.

Cruz returned to Capitol Hill round lunchtime after touring again from West Palm Seashore, Fla., earlier within the day. He traveled with President-elect Trump on Tuesday for the SpaceX rocket launch in Brownsville, Texas. 

Braun has been attending a convention for incoming governors, two GOP sources mentioned. He didn’t search reelection to the Senate and can take over as governor of Indiana subsequent month. 

Republicans had been hopping mad in regards to the voting absences on Monday and Tuesday, which had been headlined by Vice President-elect JD Vance and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), President-elect Trump’s option to run the State Division. 

“Not personally or directly. Just generally,” mentioned Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) when requested if he obtained any guff from his colleagues at lunch about lacking votes on Tuesday as he traveled with Cruz to see the rocket launch. 

“We just had a good discussion about it now about making sure with some of these we actually have a shot at blocking, at making sure we can be here,” Cramer mentioned. “I think there’s pretty much a renewed commitment to everybody being here.”

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