Trump Urges Senate to Confirm All 161 Pending Nominations, Including 25 Federal Judges
President Donald Trump, in a post on Truth Social on November 9, urged the U.S. Senate to confirm all 161 pending nominations, including 25 federal judges. The post was published at 6:04 p.m. Eastern Time on November 9, as the Senate returned to session after the midterm elections for its lame-duck sitting.
Trump wrote that it was very important for the Senate to confirm all of the pending nominations, and thanked the chamber for its attention to the matter. The figures of 161 nominations and 25 federal judges are Trump's own, stated in his post; trackers of judicial nominations put the number of judicial nominees currently pending in the Senate at about 23, and the Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled committee votes on six of them for November 10.
The post comes against the clock of a transfer of power in Congress. Democrats won control of both the Senate and the House in the November 3 midterm elections, and the new Congress takes office in January, leaving Republicans only the post-election session to move the president's nominees. The Senate is scheduled to sit on November 9 and 10, again in the week of November 16, and for three weeks from late November through mid-December, about 30 sitting days in total.
Federal judges serve life terms once confirmed, so both parties have long raced to advance or block judicial nominations before a change of power. Trump appointed 234 federal judges in his first term, including three Supreme Court justices, and 56 of his judicial nominees have been confirmed so far in his second term.
The post is an urging statement by Trump, not the announcement of new nominations. The Senate has not taken new confirmation action on the 161 nominations, and the White House has issued no formal statement on the post. (Source: Donald Trump)
Source: Donald Trump
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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