#democratic-senators

#democratic-senators

The Senate voted to confirm Sheria Akins Clarke as a judge for the District of South Carolina by a vote of 52-38, with 10 senators not voting. During a confirmation hearing in March, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) asked Clarke and three other Trump judicial nominees about the 2020 election and the 2021 Capitol riot. Ms. Clarke, who won the 2020 election? Blumenthal asked. Under our Constitution, the mechanism for electing a president, she responded as Blumenthal interrupted.

The Late Show host Stephen Colbert torched the eight members of the Democratic caucus who crossed party lines to end the government shutdown on Sunday, accusing them of crumbling like a granola bar in your backpack to Republicans without winning any real concessions. During Monday night's opening monologue, Colbert opened with mock relief that the country's long national nightmare was ending, before turning his fire on the Democratic defectors: At how many days? 41 days so far, it's the longest in U.S. history.

"At roughly the same time, Mr. Trump was across town in the Oval Office unspooling stories of violence, asking the assembled cameras, Did you see the guy throwing the rocks at the police cars?"