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From Fox News: The Senate GOP leader on Monday slammed decisions by two federal judges to reverse their announced retirements after Republican former President Trump won re-election in November.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., criticized the pair of “partisan Democrat district judges” after they announced plans to “unretire” after “the American people 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 in remarks delivered on the Senate floor.
The report explains that two leftist judges have ‘un-retired’ after Trump won the presidential election.
U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley of Ohio, who was appointed by President Bill Clinton, announced his intention to stay on the bench after Biden had failed to nominate a replacement for him.
Likewise, U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn of North Carolina, who was appointed by President Obama, has also withdrawn plans to retire.
Prior to the election, Both Marbley and Cogburn had announced plans to take senior status, which would have allowed them to take reduced caseloads until the president appoints a successor, Fox News explains.
“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 while speaking from the Senate floor Monday.
Noting the political motives behind the decisions, McConnell said the incoming Trump administration to “explore all available recusal options with these judges.”
This comes after a bi-partisan agreement had been reached last month which would leave at least four crucial appellate court judges for Trump to appoint as soon as he takes office in January. Now, with the two judges withdrawing their retirement plans, that leaves only two judges for Trump to appoint.
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