the senate calendar is the whole ballgame here. Sen. Rick Scott says confirming the remaining judicial nominees of Donald Trump would eat 200 hours of floor time, and with only 20 planned Senate days left through the end of the year, Thune has to extend the schedule to fit it. seven days a week is the ask. Democrats take over in January, and that's the deadline: "We've got to get all of Trump's judicial nominations done before then." Scott's warning is blunt, that without the seven-day grind nothing gets finished, and that "none of them will get confirmed next year." So the play is to stay in session until every nomination is through, outworking Democrats if they try to stall. the seats being filled don't reset when power flips, they sit for decades 🇺🇸