Outgoing President Joe Biden might have only two months left in his term, but his legacy will last for decades thanks to Republicans who failed to show up this week to oppose Biden judicial nominees.
Big-name members of the GOP, including Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio were absent on Monday as Democratic senators approved more than a dozen Biden appointments to lifetime positions on the federal bench.
Republicans in the Senate who actually showed up for the fight were furious. And so was President-elect Donald Trump.
“If we don’t show up, we lose,” North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis said, according to The Hill.
“I don’t care what the reasons were. We have fewer than 15 scheduled legislative days. You have to show up. Period. End of story. There’s nothing more important.”