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Walker’s confirmation hearing to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in the Judiciary Committee is already scheduled for Tuesday. Never mind that he just got his district court seat in Kentucky in October, despite the fact that the American Bar Association had rated him unqualified because at age 37 and as a law professor, he had never even gone to court. He is, of course, a Federal Society favorite and a McConnell protégé who also clerked for Brett Kavanaugh when he was on a lower court. Of Kavanaugh, Walker said, his “courageous and influential opinions on countless different issues—presidential power, regulatory overreach, religious liberty, the Second Amendment, and the list goes on—leave no doubt that he would be a forceful conservative justice for decades to come.” So you know what kind of judge he’s going to be, on the court that provides the springboard not just for the big cases the Supreme Court considers, but for future Supreme Court justices.
That’s why they’re coming back, for Walker and the other appeals court vacancies McConnell wants to pack with extremists. That’s why he’s endangering all the staff that works in the Senate and all the high-risk senators by forcing them back on Monday to do the nation’s work. Not to respond to this coronavirus crisis, but to exploit it.
