It has been reported through National Review that President Biden has been co-opted by his party’s progressive ideologues, the same woke Left from which he distanced himself in order to get elected. Nevertheless, the razor-thin Democratic majorities in Congress always made it unrealistic that Biden could deliver on many progressive priorities. I’ve maintained that, to stave off potential mutiny, the administration would load the judiciary and the administrative state with hard leftists.
This is clearly playing out on the federal bench.
With no margin for defections in a 50–50 Senate, Democrats exercise rigorous partisan discipline. Vice President Kamala Harris is the tie-breaker, so for the moment they can approve Biden’s judicial nominees with no Republican support (though they typically pick off a handful of votes from GOP moderates, some of whom continue to regard judicial confirmations as if it were still 1950, with nominees expected to shield the law from their political preferences).
The likes of Senators Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) may occasionally stray from the woke reservation, but when it comes to judicial nominations, even (relatively) centrist Democrats reliably vote to approve progressive ideologues. Doing so works for them, for the same reason that nominating them works for Biden: The woke Left is the locus of the party’s passion, energy, and much of its funding.
Republicans should be slowing him down by opposing the ideologues he’s appointing.
President Biden has been co-opted by his party’s progressive ideologues, the same woke Left from which he distanced himself in order to get elected. Nevertheless, the razor-thin Democratic majorities in Congress always made it unrealistic that Biden could deliver on many progressive priorities. I’ve maintained that, to stave off potential mutiny, the administration would load the judiciary and the administrative state with hard leftists.
This is clearly playing out on the federal bench.
With no margin for defections in a 50–50 Senate, Democrats exercise rigorous partisan discipline. Vice President Kamala Harris is the tie-breaker, so for the moment they can approve Biden’s judicial nominees with no Republican support (though they typically pick off a handful of votes from GOP moderates, some of whom continue to regard judicial confirmations as if it were still 1950, with nominees expected to shield the law from their political preferences).
The likes of Senators Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D., Ariz.) may occasionally stray from the woke reservation, but when it comes to judicial nominations, even (relatively) centrist Democrats reliably vote to approve progressive ideologues. Doing so works for them, for the same reason that nominating them works for Biden: The woke Left is the locus of the party’s passion, energy, and much of its funding.
Democratic senators need progressive support. They live in constant fear of being primaried. (See, e.g., last weekend’s rumblings that New York’s supposedly moderate Senator Kirsten Gillibrand may be vulnerable to a challenge by congresswoman and progressive darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.) The moderate pose may dupe voters who do not follow politics closely, but nothing says “I’m on the team” to the party’s movers and shakers quite like a Democratic senator’s votes to enrobe the lawyer Left — even though the radical stances of these nominees on such matters as “systemic racism,” nonenforcement of immigration laws, criminal-justice “reform,” defunding police, and voting rights for felons and illegal aliens would be shocking to constituents back home . . . if the media covered them.
This communist dictator needs to be dealt with very soon!!!!!!