They denounced Thursday’s vote, calling it “laughable” that none of the committee Republicans objected to confirming a lawyer with as little experience as Talley to preside over federal trials.
“But when you think of it, Mitch and I were saying, that has consequences 40 years out, depending on the age of the judge - but 40 years out.”Ĭivil rights groups and liberal advocates see the matter differently. Nobody wants to talk about it,” Trump said last month, standing alongside Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) in the White House Rose Garden.