Opinion: The Senate has important work to do. Why waste time subpoenaing Donald Trump Jr.?
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Jan. 24 in Washington. By Hugh Hewitt Hugh Hewitt Bio Follow May 12 at 4:52 PM There are six vacancies on the U.S. Court of Appeals, with two more vacancies certain to occur and many more likely to happen before January 2021 as older members of the courts eager to be replaced by center-right judges take “senior status.
Most pressing are the vacancies on the often-overruled U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, and the 2nd Circuit has two vacancies that, when nominees are selected and confirmed, will flip that circuit’s composition to a majority of Republican presidents’ nominees. These judicial nominees are the Senate’s most important task, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham have patiently and persistently worked to address the backlog and change rules to allow the federal bench to be as populated as quickly as the White House allows, given the glacial pace of new nominees.
Yet that committee, charged with oversight of the intelligence community and thus with countless urgent issues and tasks, deemed it necessary to subpoena Donald Trump Jr. as a sort of final ritual in the opera of collusion delusion that has gripped the country since the 2016 presidential election. We need to know if this latest subpoena is simply a flexing of muscles by staff frustrated by years of fruitless digging that was rendered obviously irrelevant by the work of special counsel Robert S.
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