Confused? Biden Demands Senate Democrats Block Judicial Confirmations, Apparently Forgetting Reid Rule

Presidential frontrunner Joe Biden has a message for Senate Democrats: Block President Trump and the GOP majority from confirming more federal judges through the end of the year.   He makes reference to leading Republicans encouraging aging jurists to take 'senior status' or retire, in order to be replaced with younger constitutionalists while conservatives control the process -- which they very well may not starting in January.  Some liberals have expressed frustration that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg did not step down during the Obama presidency, instead of risking Trump replacing her with an ideological balance-shifting successor.  Biden said this week that Chuck Schumer and his caucus must prevent Mitch McConnell and his colleagues from further reshaping the judiciary, pending the election:

.@JoeBiden is "very concerned," that @senatemajldr will encourage older judges to retire before Nov.

"I'm going to urge the Dems in the U.S. Senate to block the ability to have a vote on those judges...we only have 140-some days left to go. We're not going to let that happen."

— Molly Nagle (@MollyNagle3) June 11, 2020

Here's the problem with his calls for obstruction from upper chamber Democrats: They lack the power to block these votes from happening. They can slow-walk the process a bit, but they can't prevent it from moving forward.  Why?  Because of the rules change they themselves implemented under Harry Reid, during the Obama years.  

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