# MIKE DAVIS: Lame-duck Senate has unfinished business and a ticking clock

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/mike-davis-lame-duck-senate-has-unfinished-business-and-a-ticking-clock/
- Published: 2026-11-07T12:22:04+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-07T13:26:38+00:00
- Original publisher: Fox News (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/mike-davis-lame-duck-senate-unfinished-business-ticking-clock
- Topics: Government, Politics, World

## Key points

- Davis urges Republicans to confirm 23 judicial nominees before the Senate changes hands.
- Four nominees are intended for appeals courts, which decide most federal appeals.
- Arkansas senators have raised questions about nominee Lee Rudofsky.

## Summary

Mike Davis argues that Senate Republicans should use the remaining days of the current session to confirm President Donald Trump’s 23 pending judicial nominees before Democrats take control on 3 January 2027. He says the circuit court nominees are especially consequential because the Supreme Court reviews only a small share of cases, leaving appeals courts as the final decision-makers for most federal litigants.

The nominees include four for appeals courts and 19 for district courts. Davis urges senators to advance them quickly, including Lee Rudofsky, whose nomination has prompted questions from Arkansas Republicans John Boozman and Tom Cotton. He points to Democrats’ confirmation of judges during the 2024 lame-duck session as precedent, and argues that delaying could leave vacancies for a future president to fill.

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