Wed Jun 28, 2023 – 3:42 pm EDTWed Jun 28, 2023 – 4:25 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Since January 2021, Senate Democrats have confirmed 136 of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees to federal courts and 551 of his appointees to other executive-branch positions, leading to dramatic leftward shifts in federal regulations and interpretation of the law. But Republicans have had some success this year in blocking some of the most extreme picks, thanks in large part to the efforts of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).
Cruz, who is the GOP’s ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee, spoke with the Daily Caller earlier this month about his and his colleagues’ success in stopping three Biden appointees in the first five months of 2023, before they managed to make it out of committee, by ensuring a united front of opposition among Republicans and even peeling off a few Democrat votes.
“First was Gigi Sohn, an extreme leftwing partisan, whom President Biden had nominated to be on the Federal Communications Commission,” Cruz said. “And had she been confirmed, she would have used that incredibly powerful regulatory board to silence and censor views with which she disagrees. My
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