U.S. Senate Democrats on Tuesday charged ahead with confirming more judges before Republican President-elect Donald Trump takes office by approving a new trial court judge in Oregon whose promotion of diversity and inclusion in the legal profession had fueled stiff Republican opposition.

Republicans have pulled procedural levers to slow down a normally speedy confirmation process for federal judges, part of an effort to gum up the works for Democrats as they attempt to fill the federal bench ahead of a second Trump administration.

It’s a bold last-ditch effort to overturn the results in the U.S. Senate race between Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and his Republican challenger David McCormick, who is up by about 21,000 votes, a lead unlikely to be reversed by a simple recount. Sen.-

Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court is weighing in on a flashpoint amid ongoing vote counting in the U.S. Senate election between Democratic Sen. Bob Casey and Republican David McCormick

Gov. Ron DeSantis says Floridians will likely know who their next U.S. senator will be by the beginning of January