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Texas Senator John Cornyn gets schooled on the judicial nomination process

Republican Texas Senator John Cornyn may have been in office for 11 years, but he still has a lot to learn about the judicial nominating process. Just this past week, Cornyn ranted about the judicial nominee vacancies in Texas, claiming that the seats have been open for over 1,000 days, and that it's President Obama's responsibility to fill in those vacancies with his own nominations. Democratic Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse had a few things things to say on the matter, as he responded to Cornyn's rate with the following - "I don't see why you need additional judges when there have been multiple vacancies that have been left without nominees for years. I have an issue with that." Cornyn responded with, "The president's got to nominate somebody before the Senate can act on it." The long-standing tradition is for the state's senators to bring forth nominees to the president and for the president to then work with the senators ...