06.12.19

Senate Confirming Uncontroversial Well-Qualified Nominees in Fraction of the Time

‘Together, these nominees possess over a century of legal experience. Their resumes include work in state attorney’s offices, as county judges, and as state solicitor general. They include a former U.S. army trial defense counsel and a U.S. Supreme Court litigant. Each has demonstrated a commitment to upholding the Constitution and preserving the rule of law. Each deserves our strong, bipartisan support.’

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor regarding the need to confirm more of the president’s well-qualified nominees:

“This week we’re continuing to confirm more unobjectionable nominees who’ve had to move through the Senate more slowly than they should. Yesterday, we confirmed Sarah Daggett Morrison to serve as a District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio. And despite the fact that our Democratic friends forced us to file cloture on her nomination, when she finally received her vote, she was confirmed by an overwhelming bipartisan margin – 89 to 7.

“That’s probably because Ms. Morrison, like the other nominees we are considering this week, is thoroughly non-controversial and very well qualified for the job. And thanks to the modest reform to Senate rules that we put in place this spring, more nominees that fit this description are being confirmed in a fraction of the time it would have otherwise taken.

“So I hope the strong bipartisan support we saw yesterday will be shown to the jurists we’ll vote to confirm to the federal bench today: Pamela Barker to the Northern District of Ohio; Corey Maze to the Northern District of Alabama; Rodney Smith to the Southern District of Florida; Thomas Barber to the Middle District of Florida; And Jean-Paul Boulee to the Northern District of Georgia.

“Together, these nominees possess over a century of legal experience. Their resumes include work in state attorney’s offices, as county judges, and as state solicitor general. They include a former U.S. army trial defense counsel and a U.S. Supreme Court litigant. Each has demonstrated a commitment to upholding the Constitution and preserving the rule of law. Each deserves our strong, bipartisan support.”

Related Issues: Nominations, Judicial Nominations