Instead, through early evening, Mr. Trump used his Twitter feed to focus on issues like trade, infrastructure, school safety and his complaints that Senate Democrats are obstructing confirmation of his nominees.
"Current Congressional Republicans have made no secret of the extraordinary lengths they will go to to obstruct the confirmation process," said Eric Schultz, a White House spokesman.
"This year we will mobilize our activists as needed, particularly when members of the Senate choose to needlessly obstruct the confirmation process.
The story of the past eight years is one of the Senate GOP using every tool at their disposal to obstruct the confirmation process, even dragging district court nominees into their partisan fights for the first time.
In justifying his threat to obstruct the confirmation of every single Obama judicial nominee in response to the President's recess appointment of Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) had the chutzpah this weekend to lecture President Obama about the fact that the "Constitution is not a partisan document".
The G.O.P. has already found a simple and immediate way to wage war on the federal judiciary: by obstructing the confirmation of new judges.
"We are glad the Republicans have stopped obstructing the confirmation of Rep. Solis so that she can start helping America's workers," said one union official.
He actually accused fellow Senate Republicans trying to obstruct Merrick's confirmation of "playing politics with judges".
"While Kelly Ayotte just today made her support for Donald Trump official, they've long been in agreement when it comes to critical issues such as their desire to defund Planned Parenthood, undermine Roe v. Wade, and obstruct the Supreme Court confirmation process," Hassan's campaign said in a statement.
Another way to measure just how aggressively Republicans have obstructed the judicial confirmation process is to look at the number of "judicial emergencies," a term used when judges can't keep up with growing caseloads.
Trump also claimed on Tuesday that the Kavanaugh allegations were part of Senate Democrats' efforts to "delay and obstruct" the judge's confirmation.
