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    Mitch McConnell On Filling The Federal Bench: 'This Is My Top Priority'

    The Senate majority leader says he is focusing the chamber's agenda for the rest of 2018 on confirming conservatives to lifetime judicial appointments.
    by Susan Davis May 24, 2018 2 minutes
    Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told NPR he believes lifetime federal judicial appointments are among the most important appointments the Senate is tasked with confirming.

    For Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, 2018 could be defined by one word: judges.

    More than any other issue or cause in this midterm election year, the Kentucky Republican says he is focusing the chamber's agenda on confirming as many of President Trump's lifetime judicial appointments as possible before the end of the year.

    "There are over 1,200 executive branch appointments that come to us for confirmation, and among

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