• Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    He nominated the judges and the Senate has to approve them. The Senate is supposed to refuse to confirm unsuitable nominees. That is where the system has been falling down for decades now. The Executive branch is not supposed to have a rubber-stamp Senate. The founding fathers didn’t imagine that the Senate would be dominated by a massive group of boot-lickers who, rather than serving their constituents, serve only the interests of the President.