Senate GOP initiates Thune-engineered slow down as Schumer looks to stack judicial votes

Senate Republicans opted to hold votes and gully retired level enactment connected Monday nighttime aft Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., sought to stack further judicial confirmation votes connected the calendar up of the Thanksgiving holiday. 

Two sources acquainted told Fox News Digital that the program to dilatory down the Senate was spearheaded by Senate Minority Whip John Thune, R-S.D., who was precocious elected arsenic the adjacent Republican Senate leader. 

"If Sen. Schumer thought Senate Republicans would conscionable rotation implicit and let him to rapidly corroborate aggregate Biden-appointed judges to beingness jobs successful the last weeks of the Democrat majority, helium thought wrong," Thune told Fox News Digital successful an exclusive statement. 

In effect to the Democrat leader's determination to record cloture connected a fig of judicial nominees, which would travel up for confirmation votes successful a fig of days, Republicans plotted procedural maneuvers connected the Senate level to importantly hold votes, aggregate GOP sources told Fox News. 

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Republicans sought to hold Democrats' cloture filings connected Monday arsenic they look to rapidly corroborate Biden judges.  (Reuters)

The further cloture filings by Schumer travel arsenic Democrats are focusing their efforts connected confirming arsenic galore judges nominated by President Biden arsenic they tin successful the clip they person near successful the majority. 

During the archetypal procedural ballot of the evening, a root acquainted told Fox News, "it could beryllium a precocious night."

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Sen. John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, speaks during a quality league pursuing Senate Republican argumentation luncheons astatine the U.S. Capitol successful Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021.  (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In bid to record cloture connected a nomination, the Senate needs to modulation from legislative league to enforcement session. This is typically done by unanimous consent from the Senate. But connected Monday evening, Republicans began objecting to the requests for unanimous consent. 

When a legislator objects, it requires the modulation betwixt enforcement and legislative sessions to beryllium voted on. 

By objecting to Democrats' unanimous consent requests successful bid to record cloture connected the Biden nominees, Republicans are adding further votes to the schedule, taking up a important magnitude of time. 

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., motions to President Biden aft helium delivered remarks astatine an lawsuit connected June 18, 2024 successful Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Schumer's bureau did not instantly supply remark to Fox News Digital. 

In level remarks connected Monday, Schumer emphasized that Democrats are prioritizing judges successful the lame duck session. 

"The judges we’ve confirmed correspond possibly the widest scope of backgrounds and experiences ever seen nether immoderate president. We person much judges that worked arsenic nationalist defenders, ineligible assistance attorneys, civilian rights lawyers, national prosecutors, voting rights lawyers, and much women and radical of colour than we’ve ever had nether 1 Administration," helium said of the 215 nominees that person already been confirmed. 

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., departs a quality league connected Capitol Hill connected July 23, 2024, successful Washington, D.C.  (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

 "After we ballot today, we’ll support going. Tonight, I volition record connected further judges who we volition determination guardant connected the level this week."

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"So, fto maine repeat: the Senate is going to support prioritizing judicial and administrative confirmations this week, this month, and for the remainder of this year," helium said. 

During Biden's term, his medication has sought to surpass President-elect Donald Trump's first-term bequest of 234 confirmed Article III judicial nominees. And arsenic Democrats look down the tube of a Republican trifecta successful Washington, D.C., controlling the House, Senate, and White House, they look much energized than ever to propulsion Biden's judges done and perchance bushed Trump's number.