ICYMI: PUNCHBOWL: DEMAND JUSTICE ANNOUNCES SIX-FIGURE AD BUY TARGETING FETTERMAN FOR FAILING TO BLOCK TRUMP JUDICIAL NOMINEE
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, Demand Justice announced plans to run a six-figure ad buy in Pennsylvania against Senator John Fetterman, who reportedly has returned a blue slip for Trump judicial nominee, Antonio Pozos.
When asked, every one of Trump’s judicial nominees has refused to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election and that the Capitol was attacked on January 6, 2021. Nominees are submitting to a political litmus test that demonstrates their unyielding loyalty to Donald Trump.
Demand Justice President Josh Orton: “These are not normal times – Donald Trump is nominating judges who are loyal only to him. Any senator who acts like this is normal is deluding themselves.”
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Punchbowl: Fetterman allows Trump judge to advance
News: Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is allowing President Donald Trump’s nomination of a federal judge in Pennsylvania to go forward, waiving his right to block the selection.
It’s the first time in Trump’s second term that a Senate Democrat has turned in a blue slip for one of Trump’s judicial picks.
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This is also a new test for Senate Democrats. Trump only recently nominated a pair of judges for federal district courts in states with one or two Democratic senators. Trump tapped Antonio Pozos for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Michael Martin for the Eastern District of Michigan.
Fetterman turned in his blue slip for Pozos to allow the nomination process to move forward, according to a spokesperson for the Pennsylvania Democrat. Michigan’s two Democratic senators haven’t turned in their blue slips for Martin.
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Here’s news. A key liberal group, Demand Justice, is planning a six-figure ad buy in Pennsylvania attacking Fetterman for his decision not to veto the Pozos nomination.
They’re also firing off a warning shot for any Senate Democrat who returns a blue slip on a Trump judicial pick, vowing similar six-figure ad campaigns. The group already targeted Fetterman and several other Senate Democrats with a million-dollar ad blitz last year over votes to confirm Trump judges.
Demand Justice argues that all of Trump’s judicial picks refuse to contradict the president’s false claims about winning the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, so Democrats need to block every nominee.
“These are not normal times, and any senator who thinks that this is standard operating procedure and that any of these nominations are normal course of operations is deluding themselves,” Demand Justice President Josh Orton told us.
Orton added that “if Democrats truly believe that we have to stand up to Trump’s attacks on the rule of law, they have to do so in every room — not just on Twitter and not just on TV.”
