This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes.
Over the last seven weeks, Senate Republicans have picked up the pace in confirming judges whose unifying characteristic is their desperation to demonstrate their loyalty to President Donald Trump above all else. What’s worse, the Senate is processing them with less public scrutiny than usual and little resistance, even by Senate Democrat standards. And with a new vacancy on the Eighth Circuit, Trump has yet another chance to reinforce Republican dominance on the nation’s most lopsided appeals court.
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