{"id":2260899,"date":"2024-06-05T21:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T01:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uniparty-strikes-again-seven-gop-senators-join-dems-in-confirming-biden-judicial-nominee\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T21:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T01:33:38","slug":"uniparty-strikes-again-seven-gop-senators-join-dems-in-confirming-biden-judicial-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uniparty-strikes-again-seven-gop-senators-join-dems-in-confirming-biden-judicial-nominee\/","title":{"rendered":"Uniparty Triumphs: Seven GOP Senators Back Biden&#8217;s Judicial Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funiparty-strikes-again-seven-gop-senators-join-dems-in-confirming-biden-judicial-nominee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2260899&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article by Mike Landry discusses the unexpected voting\u2064 patterns of Republican\u2063 senators who supported a Democrat-nominated judicial appointee.\u200d The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/you-dont-have-to-be-a-ukraine-expert-to-know-senate-gop-leaders-are-a-bunch-of-frauds\/\" title=\"Senate GOP leaders are fraudulent, regardless of your expertise on Ukraine\">senators&#8217; decisions<\/a> \u2064and\u200c their varying Heritage Action ratings are\u200d highlighted, demonstrating the complexities of \u2063political \u200dallegiances. The piece emphasizes the significance of bipartisan considerations in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-worthy-recipient-pro-life-group-names-trump-pro-life-person-of-the-year\/\" title=\"\u201cA Worthy Recipient\u201d- Pro-Life Group Names Trump Pro-Life \u201cPerson Of The Year\u201d\">judicial appointments<\/a> against the\u200b backdrop of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-congress-and-the-senate-need-to-preserve-the-original-purpose-of-title-ix\/\" title=\"Why Congress And The Senate Must Maintain Name IX's's Primary Objective\">increasing political polarization<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/mlandry\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/mlandry\/%20\"><span>Mike Landry<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 5, 2024 at 3:39pm <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Okay, before you read below, can you guess which Republican senators voted with Democrats 57-41 on a judicial nomination all other Republicans rejected?<\/p>\n<p>Some of it shouldn\u2019t be hard. Because if you watch the votes of these people, you\u2019ll see a familiar pattern.<\/p>\n<p>Mitt Romney of Utah voting with the Democrats? Of course.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Murkowski of Alaska? Naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Susan Collins of Maine? Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Those three aren\u2019t hard to guess.<\/p>\n<p>And the ratings of this trio on the <a href=\"https:\/\/heritageaction.com\/scorecard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heritage Action for America Scorecard<\/a> would confirm your guesses \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bitter-romney-slams-enough-republicans-new-book-almost-sounds-like-democrat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romney<\/a> 27 percent, Murkowski and Collins 13 percent.<\/p>\n<p>But there were four other Republicans who joined Democrats and Independent Bernie Sanders in confirming Tanya Monique Jones Bosier, nominated by President Joe Biden as an associate judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n<p>Any more guesses?<\/p>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Would you approve a Biden judicial nominee after last week&#8217;s NYC farce trial?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lindsay Graham of South Carolina?<\/p>\n<p>One never knows which way Sen. Graham\u2019s vote might fall \u2014 he only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leaked-audio-lindsey-graham-caught-praising-joe-biden-inauguration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">favors Democrats<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-falsely-claims-we-didnt-have-a-vaccine-when-we-came-into-office\/\" title=\"Biden Falsely Claims: \u2018We Didn\u2019t Have\u2019 A Vaccine \u2018When We Came Into Office\u2019\">days ending<\/a> with \u201cy,\u201d but on some of those days, he takes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lindsey-graham-ties-border-funding-ukraine-aid-tough-message-anyone-doesnt-like\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strong stands<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-vice-president-mike-pence-joins-the-heritage-foundation\/\" title=\"Former Vice President Mike Pence Joins The Heritage Foundation\">conservative principles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday he voted with the Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Graham\u2019s Heritage rating also reflects his attainment of great heights of mediocrity regarding conservativism \u2013 52 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Other Republicans joining Democrats included Mike Rounds, also of South Carolina (33 percent), and Thom Tillis of North Carolina (36 percent).<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s James Lankford of Oklahoma. Usually a conservative party-line voter, the 56-year-old former Baptist youth camp president sometimes surprises, as he did this week in voting Biden\u2019s judicial confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>And his Heritage score \u2014 48 percent \u2014 reflects his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/state-gop-condemns-republican-senator-bipartisan-border-deal-threatens-go-doesnt-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inconsistencies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps there were things about Judge Tanya Jones Bosier that impressed these senators enough to vote to confirm her.<\/p>\n<p>Serving at the time of her confirmation as a magistrate judge of the Superior Court of D.C., Jones Bosier had graduated at the top of her undergraduate class from <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Tanya_Jones_Bosier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Syracuse University<\/a> and in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgac.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/Prepared-Statement-Jones-Bosier-2023-09-07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March opening statement<\/a> to Senators spoke of her family as her highest treasure, including a son in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n<p>That gets the attention of conservatives and Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>And in earlier years, there might have been bipartisan \u2014 enthusiastic by some, grudging by others \u2014 votes in favor of confirmation out of respect for the judge and the president.<\/p>\n<p>But those days are gone. The nomination of Jones Bosier by a Democrat automatically makes her suspect, especially in these days of lawfare waged mainly by that side of the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, that\u2019s bad, but that\u2019s how it is.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s not all that new. Democrat behavior in judicial confirmations resulted in the coining of the verb \u201cbork\u201d after what they did in abusing Constitutional originalist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/robert-bork-ronald-reagan-supreme-court-nominations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robert Bork\u2019s nomination<\/a> to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987 by President Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>So polarized and predictable is the judiciary that there are calls \u2014 including among some of us in Arkansas \u2014 to remove restrictions that elections of judges be nonpartisan.<\/p>\n<p>Truth in packaging, I guess you might call it. Tell us who you are, so we can decide whether or not to vote for you.<\/p>\n<p>Tellingly, Democrats voted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1182\/vote_118_2_00186.htm#position\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unanimously<\/a> for Jones Bosier.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, if Murkowski, Collins, Romney and the others had gone with their fellow Republicans and voted against her, Judge Jones Bosier still would have been confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet a vote of 50-48 would have sent a message of resistance to the increasingly reckless whims of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>If elections have consequences, like it or not, so do party standards.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>In just a few months, the world is going to change forever. 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Together, we really can save the country.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Thank you for your support!<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/subscribe\/?utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>Please stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>!<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-45512\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/mlandry\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-45512\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-45512\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45512\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45512\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Mike Landry, PhD, is a retired business professor. He has been a journalist, broadcaster and church pastor. He writes from Northwest Arkansas on current events and business history.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>  Mike Landry, PhD, is a retired business professor. He has been a journalist, broadcaster and church pastor. He writes from Northwest Arkansas on current events and business history. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by Mike Landry on June 5, 2024: Guess which Republican senators sided with Democrats 57-41 on a judicial nominee? Familiar voting patterns may reveal the surprise. 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