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Senate Confirms Another Trump Judicial Nominee, 36, to Lifetime Judgeship During Lame Duck Session Matt Naham The Republican-led U.S. Senate on Wednesday, during a lame duck session, confirmed former federal prosecutor  Katherine A. Crytzer, 36, to a lifetime judgeship on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. The vote was 48-47. Confirmed, 48-47: Executive Calendar #932 Katherine A. Crytzer to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. A vacancy opened up on the court in early September, when Judge Pamela Reeves died after...

Nominations. and what the senate does for a couple years it will continue to do from there on out. it set new precedent and that is in the past two years there have been 128 nominations that have slowed down dramatically. that's requiring what is called an intervening day plus an additional 30 hours after that intervening day. so it's really three days to be able to move one person. any future president requires about 1,000 people to be able to go through the nomination process that are just on the executive calendar. you can literally have any party at any time be able to shut down the senate...

Thomas' nomination. it went to the floor, was confirmed, 52-48 and all off know it only takes one senator, just one, to make us get 60 votes. nobody did. so we are simply back to dealing with the executive calendar on a simple majority basis as we did for 230 years or so down to bush. and i don't think -- and you know, it will advantage the other side at some point as it always did down through history. >> leader mcconnell what do you think the impact of this will be on the fall midterm election and going forward? do you think this has long or short-term ramifications for the party? >> it cert...

From a year ago, actually a few years ago from 2013. thanks to all of you who encourage me to consider filibuster reform. that had to be done. that was from your old colleague harry reid. what do you think he feels about this. >> not very far -- hugh hewett and i have discussed this in the past. we never filibusters until george bush 43 was elected president and so the appointment whether to the cabinet or court is a new invention. and who invented it? chuck schumer. we're band to where we were as a matter of custom for 200 and some odd years down to the 2000 election which is you don't filibu...

Filibustering nominations. i think a majority is appropriate for the executive calendar, including judges. >> now the antics we've watched this week have led some to observe that the body is as polarized as its ever been and do you agree with that because you have a lot of years here that relations between the two sides of the aisle are at their nader. >> it is a difference between putting on an act in a committee hearing room and how you act on the senate floor. there is no lack of collegiateality in the senate but what the democrats are doing is putting up a good front, knowing they're going...