Will liberal Republican Senator Thom Tillis sabotage GOP judicial nominations in final stretch? | Eastern NC Now

The GOP Senate majority is in the short rows on getting the final batch of Republican judicial nominees over the finish line.  After the Democrats take power on January 3, it is unlikely that any more Republican judicial nominees will be approved for the next two years.

Now a pair of perennial renegade "Republican" backstabbers in the Senate are raising questions whether they will cooperate.  These "Undocumented Democrats" Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas have a long history of betrayal in the senate. Both sit on the Senate Judiciary Committee, so are in a prime spot to block judicial nominees.  Neither is well liked among GOP activists.  The NCGOP state convention voted overwhelmingly to censure TIllis for his liberal actions, and the delegates at the Texas GOP convention loudly booed Cornyn for the same reason.

Both Tillis and Cornyn, who will leave the senate in January, are now openly making comments that raise questions about their sabotaging some or all of the remaining raft of GOP judiciary nominees.

https://redstate.com/kyle-becker/2026/11/15/two-gop-senators-are-about-to-knife-trump-in-the-back-on-judicial-nominees-blitz-n2209439