The knives are out again. Washington is performing its shutdown morality play and Chuck Schumer is the villain of the week. He can’t expect to escape judgment for that. But also judge him on his judges. Following the last holiday-season cliffhanger—a funding lapse that lasted all of 38 minutes in December 2024—Schumer’s Senate sealed Biden’s 235th lifetime judge. The government wobbled; the bench did not. That completed a four-year run that left roughly a quarter of all active federal judges carrying the Biden imprint—an outcome that will shape American law long after the current shutdown’s headlines expire.

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The left’s revolt this time round has been loud and personal . "Leadership is about changing and adapting when there is real need," first-term Senator Elissa Slo

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