Senate Rewrites Rules To Speed Confirmations For Some Trump Nominees

Senate Rewrites Rules To Speed Confirmations For Some Trump Nominees Enlarge this image toggle caption Patrick Semansky/AP Patrick Semansky/AP The Senate voted largely along party lines to change its debate rules — a move that will speed up the confirmation process for some lower-level judicial and agency nominees. Sponsor Message "It's very important to point out that these 30 hours that are provided for under long-standing Senate rules are critical in taking a good hard look at some of these Trump nominees," Mincberg said. "What Leader McConnell, President Trump and Republicans in the Senate are trying to do is use the courts to adopt a far-right agenda that Republicans know they cannot enact through the legislative process," Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said shortly before the rules change. Daniel Goldberg, legal director at the left-leaning Alliance for Justice, said, "This is just another example of the outrageous actions by Sen. McConnell and the Senate majority to do everything they can to enable the confirmation of ideologically extreme judges without careful vetting and without scrutiny by fellow senators and by the American people."