A radical, leftist judge was just handed a lifetime appointment to the 11th Circuit, and Republicans have no one to blame but themselves.
As RedState recently reported, Judge Embry Kidd’s nomination to the 11th Circuit was set to be voted on by the full Senate chamber Monday night. We’ll cut to the chase — Embry was approved by a vote of 49-45, but here’s the kicker: Five Republicans didn’t show up for the vote.
By Teri Christoph |
The door was opened for Kidd’s nomination to be rejected by West Virginia’s outgoing senator, former Democrat Joe Manchin, who voted “no” on Kidd. All the GOP had to do was walk right through that door, and the good people of Florida, Alabama, and Georgia would be prevented from having to endure decades of Embry Kidd’s soft-on-crime judicial activism.
The Republicans who failed to show up for the vote were:
- Sen. Mike Braun
- Sen. Steve Daines
- Sen. Bill Hagerty
- Sen. Marco Rubio
- Sen. JD Vance
It is particularly baffling that Rubio, who was recently nominated to be Donald Trump’s secretary of state, would fail to show up for a vote that could have a lasting impact on the residents of Florida. Judge Kidd is only forty-one, just a year older than JD Vance, and thus could serve on the 11th Circuit, or higher, for many decades to come.
Florida’s governor took notice of the same.