Justices backing out of retirement before Trump term leaves GOP members angry
After President-elect Donald Trump won in 2024, some federal judges chose to take an unusual and non-stop approach by changing their previously announced plans to move on to higher posts, which would have created gaps that Trump would have had a chance to fill. federal bench. This action was met with anger from some Republicans in the Senate.
US District Judge James Wynn of the US 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decided not to seek a higher position this month as he had originally planned, instead retaining his role on the court. His selection came after Senate Democrats agreed to allow Trump to appoint several district court vacancies, including the seat vacated by Wynn.
This move angered Sen. Thom Tillis, RN.C., his sub-district status. “Judge Wynn’s dishonorable decision to revoke his retirement is an unprecedented step that shows that other judges are nothing more than politicians in robes. Judge Wynn is clearly opposed to the fact that Donald Trump has just been elected President, and this decision is a slap in the face of the US Senate, which has reached a bipartisan agreement to stop ensuring that he will enter in his place until the next Congress is sworn in in January,” he said in a statement. statement.
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Some federal judges chose to recuse themselves following President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in November. (Getty Images)
“The Senate Judiciary Committee should hold hearings on his blatant attempt to turn the judicial retirement system into a partisan game, and he deserves ethics complaints and demands for the Justice Department to step down his path.”
A spokesman for Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, told Fox News Digital, “Senator Grassley looks forward to working with President Trump to fill the court’s vacancies with constitutional judges, and he will work with Republican caucuses to address improper government bias on the bench,” when asked about a possible hearing.
The same was done by the lower-ranking appointees of US District Judges Max Cogburn and Algenon Marbley, who changed their plans last month.
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Sen. Tillis requested a hearing on the so-called non-judicial waiver. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Although the district judges were not included in the agreement to leave some vacancies for Trump, it has been tense that President Biden and the Democrats were able to fill these positions on time.
In early December commenting on the judges’ rare decisions, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said, “They rolled the dice that a Democrat could replace them and since they won’t, they changed their position. He plans to prevent the Republicans from doing it.”
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell called the actions of Democrat-appointed judges rare. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“It is an unreasonable admission. And the incoming administration would be wise to explore all the available ways to withdraw these judges, because it is now clear that they have a political finger on the scale,” he added.
McConnell noted that the pre-Thanksgiving deal between Republicans and Democrats said the GOP “will drop our roadblocks on remaining district court nominations — which have confirmation votes — and in exchange the Democratic Leader will not have any of the remaining district court nominations go to the floor — because they don’t have confirmation votes.”
President Biden is looking to beat the record of President-elect Donald Trump, with the help of Senate Democrats. (Getty Images)
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