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Sen. Warren wants to cram judicial confirmations before Trump presidency. Here's how GOP leader hopefuls responded.
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts recently made a push to use "every minute" of the legislative session between now and President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration to confirm dozens of federal judges. Here is what Republican Senate leadership hopefuls had to say.
Republican Sens. Rick Scott of Florida, John Thune of South Dakota, and John Cornyn of Texas are all vying to replace Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who announced earlier this year that he would retire as the GOP leader following the election.
When asked if they would allow Warren's Hail Mary confirmation blitz to go through the Senate, Scott had the most blunt response of the three senators.
After Trump won the election and Republicans secured their Senate majority, flipping Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Montana, Warren posted about a "path forward" on social media, which included her pitch to cram last-minute federal confirmations.
"And Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer must use every minute of the end-of-year legislative session to confirm federal judges and key regulators—none of whom can be removed by the next President," Warren said.
Republican leadership hopefuls provided varying responses to Warren's attempts to circumvent the incoming GOP government.
When asked if they would allow Warren's Hail Mary confirmation blitz to go through the Senate, Scott had the most blunt response of the three senators.
"Absolutely not," Scott told Blaze News.
Cornyn's response was less direct. When Blaze News reached out to his office for a comment, we were pointed to a quote Cornyn gave the New York Times back in September.
When the NYT asked about an end-of-year sprint from Democrats to confirm federal judges, Cornyn said, "I'll believe it when I see it."
"I don't see a lot of time for judges and I don't see why we would make it easy for them," Cornyn continued.
Thune, who has been critical of Trump over the years, did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.
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Just days after many mainstream media outlets bizarrely attempted to deny that Vice President Kamala Harris was ever the Biden administration's border czar, one prominent elected Democrat has promised that if Harris were to win the 2024 presidential election, she would soon afterward secure a "pathway to citizenship" for the millions of illegal aliens who have poured into the country under her watch.
On Sunday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren — the far-left Democrat senator from Massachusetts who vowed during her failed 2020 presidential bid to allow a gender-confused child to weigh in on her prospective education secretary — made an appearance with Jake Tapper on CNN's "State of the Union."
During their conversation about the likely showdown between Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump in November, Tapper noted that problems at the border continue to be one of the "biggest vulnerabilities" for Democrats.
'If you are here, start packing your bags right now because Donald J. Trump is coming back into office.'
Warren responded by claiming that the solution to the country's immigration problems lies with Congress since a president's ability to impact national immigration policy is "quite limited." Still, should Harris become president, she would almost certainly join with legislators to pass "comprehensive immigration reform" that would include a "pathway to citizenship" for illegal aliens already in the U.S., Warren bragged.
"We need the tools in order to have more resources at the border, to have more resources in the states and cities that are supporting migrants. And I believe we need to create a pathway to citizenship," Warren told Tapper.
"All of that is part of what we need to do for comprehensive immigration reform. Kamala Harris will work with Congress and get that done," she added on a clip that can be seen here.
In advocating on behalf of Harris, Warren also asserted that "border crossings now are lower than they were in the last year of the Trump administration," though statistics show that border crossings have skyrocketed since Joe Biden and Kamala Harris took office. Nearly 250,000 migrants crossed the border illegally last December alone.
Despite these numbers, Warren, who is up for re-election this year, certainly seems to believe the border is a winning issue for Democrats in November. During her appearance with Jake Tapper, she openly invited viewers to compare Harris' record on the border with that of Donald Trump, who has campaigned on a promise of deporting illegal aliens en masse.
"It’s really a question of who do you trust on the border. Do you trust someone who has actually been a prosecutor, who has been there in a border state, who works with Congress toward a solution? Or do you trust someone who says, you know, chaos is politically helpful to him?" Warren said.
The Harris campaign did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment on Warren's remarks.
Trump's running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), recently indicated that, thanks to the lax immigration policies under the Biden-Harris administration, illegal aliens may even cast a ballot this November in defiance of federal law. "Worst of all, Kamala Harris would happily erode every protection we have to prevent them from voting," Vance told a crowd at rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on Saturday. "She wants to hand over control of our country to people who shouldn't be here in the first place. And we cannot let her."
Vance also offered a warning to anyone living in the U.S. illegally: "If you are here, start packing your bags right now because Donald J. Trump is coming back into office."
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