U.S. Senator Katie Britt ranks second among all 100 Senators when it comes to their frequency of opposing President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees.
President Donald Trump over the weekend urged Senate Republicans to fight outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s push to rush through more of Biden’s nominees in the lame duck period that runs through the start of the 119th Congress in January.
“[N]o Judges should be approved during this period of time because the Democrats are looking to ram through their Judges as the Republicans fight over Leadership. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. THANK YOU!” Trump wrote.
Biden has had 213 judicial nominees confirmed by the Democrat-controlled Senate since taking office in January 2021, which is approaching the landmark of 220 judicial nominees confirmed during the first Trump Administration.
According to research from Thomas Jipping of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, Britt has more than done her part in standing strongly against Biden’s onslaught of nominees. According to Jipping, the average Senate Republican has opposed 77.9% of Biden’s judicial nominees.
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Britt (R-Montgomery) has voted against Biden’s judicial nominees 93.1%, which is second-highest across the nation. Only Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) at 94% was higher, and trailing right behind Britt was Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) at 93%.
On the Republican side of the aisle, the least opposed to Biden’s judicial nominees has been Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) at 15%.
While running for the Senate in the 2022 cycle, Britt outlined her approach to supporting judicial nominees, saying she would support judges and justices “who interpret laws instead of writing new ones from the bench.”
Britt added, “I will be an unwavering advocate for pro-rule of law, originalist and textualist judges and justices in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who rightly said, ‘The judge who always likes the results he reaches is a bad judge.’”
Grayson Everett is the state and political editor for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @Grayson270
