Former President Donald Trump and Republicans broke with previous Senate tradition to confirm 17 federal appeals court nominees over the objection of Democratic senators representing the states tied to their seats on the bench.
Now President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are using that precedent in their effort to fill vacancies in red states to continue their record-breaking pace of judicial confirmations.GOP senators take aim at judicial nominee's 'rap sheet' of decade-old traffic citationsDuring the Trump administration, the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee -- led then by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa and later by Sen.
Ted Cruz accused of 'mansplaining' as hearing goes off the rails 03:28Republicans decried what they say was a lack of effort by the White House to reach an agreement with Tennessee Republican senators before rejecting their recommendation for the 6th Circuit seat. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas claimed the Biden White House had"barreled" over the input of the Tennessee senators and that was"fundamentally different" from the approach under Trump.
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