I’m sure that you’re all disappointed to hear that: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday that he doesn’t expect to confirm any of Obama’s circuit court nominees for the remainder of his time in office, a blow to White House efforts to fill empty federal court seats despite working with a Republican-controlled Senate.” Alas, a lot of the damage on that front was already done last year, but better late than never, huh?
And this does have a bite, by the way: remember NLRB v. Canning? – Because I bet you Barack Obama does. I imagine that the President remembers every time he’s been forcibly reminded that – his own agitprop shops to the contrary – the man does not have a particularly strong grasp of Constitutional law scholarship…