June 24, 2020 - Issue: Vol. 166, No. 116 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 2nd Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         JUDICIAL CONFIRMATIONS

  Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, in a few hours, the Senate will 
confirm Judge Cory T. Wilson to join the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 
Fifth Circuit. Yet again, President Trump has sent up an outstanding 
nominee for this important vacancy. Judge Wilson holds degrees from the 
University of Mississippi and Yale Law School. He has held a 
prestigious clerkship, found success in private practice, and spent 
years in public service as a lawyer and a judge. The American Bar 
Association rates Mr. Wilson ``well qualified.''
  Once we confirm Judge Wilson today, the Senate will have confirmed 
200--200--of President Trump's nominees to lifetime appointments on the 
Federal bench. Following No. 200, when we depart this Chamber today, 
there will not be a single circuit court vacancy anywhere in the Nation 
for the first time in at least 40 years. There will not be a single 
circuit court vacancy anywhere in the Nation for the first time in at 
least 40 years.
  As I have said many times, our work with the administration to renew 
our Federal courts is not a partisan or political victory; it is a 
victory for the rule of law and for the Constitution itself.
  If judges applying the law and the Constitution as they are written 
strikes any of our colleagues as a threat to their political agenda, 
then the problem, I would argue, is with their agenda

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