McConnell is bringing the Senate into session next Monday, May 4. Nancy Pelosi, on the other hand, is not convening the House. As King says, "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.), based upon guidance received from attending Capitol physician Brian Monahan, announced that House lawmakers will not return to Washington next week."
McConnell won't say whether he even consulted Dr. Monahan.
What is so important that the Senate must convene next week? Senate confirmation of more of Trump's nominees for federal judgeships, including 37-year-old Justin Walker.
A Kentucky native and McConnell protege, Walker was confirmed for a federal judgeship in western Kentucky in a party-line vote only last October, despite having been judged “not qualified” by the American Bar Association, which cited his insufficient legal experience. Undeterred, Trump then nominated Walker to the second-most powerful court in the land, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. McConnell’s mission is to make it happen.McConnell, who denied even a hearing for Merrick Garland, Obama's nominee for SCOTUS following the death of Antonin Scalia with 11 months remaining in Obama's term of office, sees appointing partisan Republican judges -- especially young ones like Walker, who will conceivably be exercising their right-wing political views for the next 40 years -- as his legacy issue. Good luck to minorities and labor unions with their court decisions for the next 40 years.
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