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In contrast, the administration sent multiple names for other positions, including for federal judgeships and US attorney for the Eastern District of New York. (buzzfeed.com)
It represented the culmination of years of frustration over what Democrats denounced as a Republican campaign to stall the machinery of Congress, stymie President Obama's agenda and block his choices for cabinet posts and federal judgeships by insisting that virtually everything the Senate approves be done by a supermajority. (nytimes.com)
Then, regardless of the strength of a Democratic majority in the Senate, use 51 votes to fill EVERY Federal judgeship qwith the most liberal judge immaginable. (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)