Politicians are notorious for flip-flopping, typically in whichever direction is most politically expedient for them. Judges generally are not.
Yet, two federal judges have done an about-face on their plans to retire — and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is none too pleased about it.
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 judges in question are Ohio U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley and North Carolina U.S. District Judge Max Cogburn, both of whom had previously announced plans to take senior status (thus creating two vacancies) but then reversed course after Donald Trump won the presidency on November 5. […]
— Read More: redstate.com
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