https://nypost.com/2018/11/17/senate-gop...-nominees/

"Senate Republicans, still furious over Democrats’ smearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, have been barreling ahead and confirming President Trump’s judicial nominees at a historically fast pace.

With 84 of his judges already confirmed — 29 of them at the appellate level, a record number for the first two years of a presidential administration — Trump appointees make up one-sixth of the active judges on the federal bench.

“This White House has made the judiciary a priority,” said Carrie Severino of Judicial Crisis Network, a right-leading advocacy group...."

Democrats are upset they are being requested to work. So they skip work anyway.

"...Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the committee’s chair, allowed two hearings to go forward in October even while senators were on their pre-election recess, a historical first. Ten candidates vaulted over that procedural hurdle during that quiet time....
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“The Committee has never before held nominations hearings while the Senate is in recess before an election,” the body’s 10 Democratic members complained in a protest letter Oct 15.

But none of them — not even those who weren’t fighting re-election battles, like Sen. Cory Booker (D-New Jersey) — bothered to show up and put up a Spartacus-like challenge to the president’s picks...."