‘This Is a Disservice to Donald Trump’: Strassel on Biden Getting Judges Confirmed Because of Absent Republicans

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GIGOT: “Well, and, kim, one of the con that that dictions here and maybe you can explain it is the president-elect sent out a bullet saying, do your job, senators, be there. But did he talk to his vice presidential nominee, J.D. Vance, who issued, actually, a pretty testy response himself to the initial criticism and said, well, I’m working on a lot more important things here in the transition. And then — and, by the way, essentially implied that the judge would have been confirmed anyway.”

STRASSEL: “Well, first of all, that’s not true. If those senators had shown up as collin notes, that judge would not have been confirmed. And, yes, he wasn’t even apologetic. I tend the think being there to choose an FBI director is more important than this. Actually, it’s not. And, by the way, Donald Trump can actually manage to make decisions without J.D. Vance by his side every moment of the day. The one thing I would say though, Paul, is the criticism because seem to have gotten through. A couple more judges got through still because of absence, but I would note that J.D. Vance and Marco Rubio showed up. There was much better I attendance. But when you have a Senate that is in this closely balanced even when you have a Democrat that is voting against these people, you must have full Republican attendance. And, by the way, this was a great disservice to Donald Trump because not only are these judges being put in those positions, but each ones that is is a position he doesn’t get to pick and fill.”