Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) turned the Senate’s focus to confirming a slate of judicial nominees as talks over a fifth coronavirus package are stuck at an impasse.
The Senate confirmed a total of eight judges this week: three on Tuesday, three on Wednesday and two on Thursday.
“Republican Senators, like working families across the country, had hoped the Senate would be spending this week completing more bipartisan pandemic relief,” McConnell said from the Senate floor. “Since Democrats are stonewalling pandemic relief, the Senate is using our time to confirm more well-qualified judicial nominees to lifetime positions on the federal bench.”