Mitch McConnell rushed the Senate back into session—not for coronavirus relief, but to confirm his protégé.
Just two months ago, Walker publicly accused liberals of trying to seize “our courts and ourIn April, Trump nominated Walker to the U.S. Court of Appeals to the District of Columbia Circuit to replace Thomas Griffith, a George W. Bush appointee. Democrats are irked that McConnell called the Senate back into session to confirm more judges instead of prioritizing a response to the coronavirus pandemic. That irritation is reasonable given that Griffith will not even step down until September.
Walker also said that, when he clerked for Kennedy, the “worst words” he heard were: “The chief justice thinks this might be a tax.” This reference to Chief Justice John Roberts’ decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as a tax is a breach of clerk confidentiality. More importantly, it confirms that, even after taking the bench, Walker remains hostile to the ACA, a law heDemocratic senators seemed eager to connect Walker’s hostility to the ACA to the COVID-19 crisis.
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