Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is showing once again that he is one of the biggest RINOs in Congress by becoming Joe Biden’s go-to ally when it comes to the president’s judicial picks.

Graham has been open about the fact that he will typically support a president’s judicial nominee, even if he does not agree with them politically. He previously turned on Republicans to vote for Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court nomination by Barack Obama in 2009, and one year later, he was one of five Republicans to support the leftwing Elena Kagan’s nomination as well.

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“Senator Graham has long believed that under the Constitution the president has the right to select judges of their choosing and as long as they are qualified, they should generally be confirmed by the Senate,” Graham’s office said in a statement obtained by The Hill. “This is the traditional and customary role of the Senate in the judicial confirmation process.”

This comes at a time when the GOP base is more against Biden and the left than ever before.

“He believes presidents who win the election get to appoint judges, subject obviously to extreme cases, and I think he’s following through on it,” Russell Wheeler, a fellow with the Brookings Institution who studies judicial confirmations, explained of Graham.

While Graham has opposed some of Biden’s nominations against people like Jennifer Sung and Myrna Perez, his support for others has quickly made him an outlier in the Senate GOP along with other RINOs like Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Susan Collins (R-MN). Wheeler described Graham’s approach to judicial nominees as “the old fashioned view” that used to be much more common in the Senate.

“The assumption always used to be that when our person is in the White House, we’ll expect the same deference from senators of the other party,” said Wheeler. “That’s all out the window now. It’s now, you know, dog eat dog.”

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When asked about Graham’s strategy of supporting judicial nominees, Thomas Jipping, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation, explained “that’s been his pattern probably as long as he’s been in the Senate.”

Jinping went on to say that when Obama was in office, Graham voted against 5 percent of the then-president’s judicial nominees on average, while the average for the GOP was 12 percent. Throughout his presidency so far, Biden has gotten 30 or more no votes on 89 percent of his appeals and district judges, with Republicans opposing nearly 80 percent of the current president’s picks. 

“Most of the Republican conference is voting against most of Biden’s nominees,” Jipping said.

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Democrats are well aware that Graham had become an ally for them when it comes to judicial nominees.

“There have been a number of senators on the Republican side that have helped us move things along,” said Sen Dick Durbin (D-IL). “He’s one of them but others have helped too.”

It remains to be seen whether or not Republican voters will continue to tolerate Graham and his RINO ways moving forward.

This piece was written by James Samson on November 27, 2021. It originally appeared in RedVoiceMedia.com and is used by permission.

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