Senate Democrats will work to confirm Biden nominees.

Donald Trump, the president-elect elect, demanded on Tuesday that the confirmation of President Joe Biden’s nominees for the federal judiciary be halted until he took office. He accused Democrats of “trying” to “stack the courts”.

Trump posted on Twitter that “Democrats are trying to pile the Courts with Radical Left judges on their way out of the door,” and urged Republican senators to show up and “hold the line.”

Trump tweeted: “No more judges confirmed before Inauguration day!”

The White House reacted to Trump’s tweet, saying that “partisanship is not an excuse” for choosing it over the rule of law.

In a recent statement, White House spokesperson Andrew Bates stated that “no matter what party they belong to, Americans expect their leaders fight for the rule-of-law and ensure the criminal justice systems can operate effectively in all states.” Delaying the confirmations of highly qualified and experienced judges has a real impact on the lives of constituents, and can lead to a backlog of criminal cases. Senator Thune was right in 2020 to say that Republicans and Democrats should continue to work together in good faith in order to fill the federal bench.

Bates stated that during the lame duck period of Trump’s second term in 2020, the then GOP-led Senate confirmed 18 judges, among 55 other nominees.

Senate Democrats will be expected to devote hours of floor-time in the next few weeks to a last-minute attempt to confirm as many Biden nominees as possible before Trump assumes office in January. Senate Republicans foiled their efforts Monday night. Their soon-to be leader Sen. John Thune reversed his previous position on blocking the confirmation of qualified judicial nominations.

Senate Republicans rebelled Monday night. They dragged out the process on the floor by forcing Democrats into lengthy votes over procedural motions, which are routine and mundane. The Senate Republicans slowed down the process by forcing Democrats to vote on procedural motions, which are usually routine and mundane.

Thune, the new Republican leader in the Senate, will take over in January. He took credit for the revolt, saying that Republicans wouldn’t “roll over” and appoint Biden nominees to federal benches in the “last weeks of the Democrat minority.”

Thune told ABC News that Schumer was wrong if he believed Senate Republicans would simply allow him to confirm to life tenure multiple Biden appointed judges in the last weeks of the Democrat minority.

Thune’s promise to obstruct judicial confirmation in the last hours of Biden’s presidency is a departure of comments he made a few short years ago, at the end of Trump administration. Thune emphasized the importance of confirming judges, saying that it was “one our most important duties as senators.” It was also one of the reasons he ran to the Senate.

“Mr. As senators, we have a responsibility to confirm good judges. It’s a duty I take very serious,” Thune said in a speech delivered on the Senate floor, Nov. 18, 2020 — after Biden had won the election.

After George W. Bush was elected, Democrats realized that the president’s nominees for the judiciary might not produce the results Democrats desired. They decided to change their strategy and block judicial nominees regularly,” Thune stated in his remarks of 2020. “I was among the many Americans who were upset by the blocking of talented and well-qualified nominees. It was also one of the reasons I ran to be a senator. “I promised South Dakotans if I was elected, I would put outstanding judges on their bench.”

“In fact, I was elected to the Senate to ensure that outstanding judicial nominees are confirmed to the federal bench. Thune, at the time, said that it’s difficult to imagine today but confirming judges was a bipartisan affair.

The comments he made in 2020 are an interesting contrast to his remarks this week. Senate Republicans want to block Democrats from doing the same to Biden.

Schumer, however, stepped up his efforts on Tuesday and said that he expected the Senate to continue working late into the evening this Wednesday in order to pass the nominees. Senate Democrats hope to confirm as many lifetime appointments of judges as possible while Biden remains president.

Schumer warned that “members should prepare for another late-night vote on Wednesday on the nominations that I filed last evening.”

Voting on the President’s judicial nominees, is one of the core functions of the Senate. We will continue to fulfill this responsibility for as long as we have a majority. I am very proud of all the judges that we have confirmed in the last four years, under this administration. They are all highly qualified and represent a variety of experience and expertise.

Schumer praised the high quality of judges that the Senate confirmed under his leadership. He noted their diverse backgrounds, cultures and identities. He noted that under his leadership, the Senate confirmed a record-breaking number of women and persons of color to federal benches.

Republicans’ record of judicial confirmations is better than Democrats.

During Trump’s four years as president, Republicans confirmed 234 Trump’s federal court nominees. The Democrat-controlled Senate confirmed 216 during Biden’s tenure.

Schumer, on Tuesday, said: “We are not finished.” There are still more judges to confirm and consider.

Schumer promised to confirm more judges in the remainder of the week and year. Each judge confirmed during this lame duck session of Congress means that Trump will have fewer vacancies to fill in January.