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 Newsmax: Senate Democrats and Republicans clinched a late-night deal on Wednesday that clears the way for votes on a group of President Joe Biden's nominees for federal trial courts in exchange for not pushing forward with four nominees to serve on appellate courts, leaving vacancies that Republican President-elect Donald Trump can fill. The deal, described by a spokesperson for Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Thursday, was reached after Senate Republicans launched a campaign to try to stall and prevent Democrats from fulfilling their plan to confirm as many life-tenured judges as possible before Trump takes office in January. Senate Republicans had previously said they had votes to block at least two of the four appellate court nominees, including Adeel Mangi, who would have become the first Muslim federal appellate judge if confirmed to the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The deal was sure to disappoint progressive advocates who have been pushing ...

  PJ Media: Joe Biden's vetting process for judicial nominees is either ridiculously bad or he just doesn’t care how bad his nominees are as long as they check off the right diversity boxes. Last month, Joe Biden nominated Maine Superior Court Judge Julia Lipez to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. I suspect she wasn't nominated because of her record because just last year she reduced the sentence of Michael Smith, a man who molested two young girls, aged four and nine, by half. According to the Lewiston Sun-Journal, Judge Lipez suspended half of Smith's 12-year prison sentence and  remarked during the sentencing that Smith is "a person who has a lot of good in him." Sen. John Kennedy expertly called her out on Thursday. “Mr. Smith molested a 4-year-old girl, didn’t he?” Kennedy asked her. “Senator, he was convicted after trial of unlawful sexual contact under Maine law,” she responded. “That’s a nice way of putting it,” Kennedy mocked. Kenn...

  What is happening?! Post Your Home Timeline John Kennedy @SenJohnKennedy · 18h A monster molested 4- and 9-year-old girls. Lipez called him “a person who has a lot of good in him” and suspended half of his jail sentence, giving him only 6 years behind bars. Pres. Biden wants to put Lipez on the court of appeals for life. Watch again 2:50 / 2:50 1.3K 9K 21K 952K I would not have made that recommendation. And: Josh Hawley @HawleyMO · 20h This person wants a lifetime appointment to the federal judiciary. And she’s lied under oath so many times she can't keep track of the lies 1.3K 6.5K 22K 420K