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Two Democrat-appointed judges have decided to "unretire" following President-elect Donald Trump's landslide victories, in both the popular vote and the Electoral College vote.
And their actions have prompted Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican whose party soon will be the Senate majority, to warn about the active politicization of the judiciary.
He called the announcements by the two judges, one appointed by Bill Clinton and the other by Barack Obama, an indication of "a political finger on the scale." He said the incoming Trump administration, backed by GOP majorities in the Senate and House should "explore all available recusal options with these judges."
Under the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris regime over the last four years, the administrative state in Washington has been weaponized in multiple ways against Trump, Republicans and conservatives. One report showed 70% of education enforcement actions against colleges targeted the 10% of institutions that are Christian. Further, the FBI and DOJ openly assembled wild claims against Trump, such as that he improperly had government documents after his first presidency. In contrast, Biden was given a pass for having literally boxes of such documents in his garage after his vice presidency.
The judges who abruptly changed their retirement plans following Trump's victory, which would mean a Republican president would nominate their replacements, were Judge Algenon Marbley of Ohio and Judge Max Cogburn of North Carolins.
Marbley was appointed by Clinton and Cogburn by Obama.
They both has announced plans to take senior status before the election, then flip-flopped when Trump won.
A report from Fox News explained McConnell, R-Ky., called the pair "partisan Democrat district judges."
In fact, he said, American voters "voted to fire Democrats last month."
"Looking to history, only two judges have ever unretired after a presidential election. One Democrat in 2004 and one Republican in 2009. But now, in just a matter of weeks, Democrats have already met that all-time record. It's hard to conclude that this is anything other than open partisanship," McConnell said.
McConnell said the judges are putting "a political finger on the scale."
He also, according to the report, "warned two sitting circuit court judges, who have announced retirements and have vacancies currently pending before the senate, against making similar decisions to 'unretire.'"
"Never before has a circuit judge unretired after a presidential election. It's literally unprecedented. And to create such a precedent would fly in the face of a rare bipartisan compromise on the disposition of these vacancies," McConnell said.
His reference was to a deal worked out in the Senate to allow a certain number of Biden nominees to be given Senate votes before the end of Biden's term, while other vacancies would remain unaddressed until after Trump starts making nominations.
