[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 178 (Thursday, November 7, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S6453-S6454]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          JUDICIAL NOMINATIONS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, this week, the Senate will continue to 
confirm President Trump's well-qualified judicial nominees. This 
President and this Senate have prioritized confirming impressive men 
and women to these lifetime appointments--talented individuals who 
believe in the quaint notion that the job of a judge is to apply our 
Nation's laws and Constitution as they were actually written, not as 
they might wish they were written.
  At the close of business today, it so happens, one in every four 
judges on the Federal courts of appeals will have been nominated by 
President Trump and confirmed by us here in the Senate.
  There is nothing about this that ought to be viewed as a partisan 
accomplishment or an accomplishment only for this President or only for 
one side. That is the wrong way to look at it. Every American should be 
proud of this. Citizens deserve a judiciary of fairminded men and women 
who don't confuse their jobs with the job of a legislator. Every Member 
of this body should be proud to confirm Federal judges who understand 
that our job is to make the laws, and their job is to apply them 
fairly.

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  If the concept of faithful judges fulfilling their proper role 
strikes anyone as a partisan development or a threat to their political 
agenda, I would suggest it is their agenda that needs modifying and not 
the judicial branch that our Founders intended.

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