Trump Judicial Nominees Outnumber Senators at Recess Hearing

Only two senators were present for the testimony of two Ninth Circuit nominees at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Oct. 24.

It was the second of two sparsely attended hearings scheduled during the Senate’s month-long recess, during which senators are campaigning before midterm elections in less than two weeks.

“It is extremely rare” to “conduct multiple hearings on judicial nominees when the Senate has recessed to campaign and will not return until a week after the elections,” Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, Richmond, Va., told Bloomberg Law by email.

Democrats objected to ...