"The breakneck speed with which McConnell has ushered young—and often unqualified—right-wing judges through the Senate confirmation process "should send shockwaves across the nation," the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights tweeted. Senate Republicans will stop at nothing to stack the courts with partisan judges who will push their radical agenda through at any cost" confirming 13 of Trump's lifetime judicial nominees this week, a major victory in McConnell's years-long effort to reshape the nation's courts and drag them further to the right for decades to come. McConnell and Trump's ongoing transformation of the nation's judiciary received very little attention during the two Democratic presidential debates this week. as Democrats nothing in their power to stop Trump's judicial picks because they want to leave town for August recess."
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