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Official title: Nomination of Daniel Mack Traynor (Executive Session)
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July 23, 2026
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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. DURBIN. Mr President, prior to his confirmation to the district court, Judge Daniel Traynor showed his true colors as a MAGA partisan. After he was confirmed, he had a chance to show that he could be a neutral arbiter on the bench. Yet after more than 6 years as a jurist, Judge Traynor has confirmed what Democrats warned about, that he would be a rubberstamp for President Trump.
administration in all 28 cases on his docket
to preside over in the District of Minnesota following Operation Metro Surge.
Judge Traynor is an outlier. Of the more than 17,800 cases in which Federal district judges have ruled on ICE's mandatory detention policy, at least 15,500 were rulings against the Trump administration, including the vast majority of rulings by Trump-appointed judges.
a contributing author and signatory of a May 2024 letter from Federal judges to the Columbia University president. The signatories vowed not to hire anyone who attended Columbia University beginning that year.
Columbia Law School's Initiative for a Just Society, implausibly claiming he wasn't biased against Columbia.
political question, Judge Traynor refused to answer questions at his hearing on who won the 2020 election, calling that well-settled fact a matter of “political controversy.”
graces of President Trump, at the cost of his integrity and independence.
I urge my colleagues to oppose this nomination.