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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWith all eyes continuing to focus on Russia, what is going on in the Judiciary?
This. I haven't seen much discussion on this.
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Donald Trump Is In The Perfect Position To Dramatically Remake The Courts
With 100+ judicial vacancies and a Senate eager to fill them, conservatives are salivating.
By Jennifer Bendery , Alissa Scheller
WASHINGTON ― Most days, it seems like President Donald Trump is sabotaging his own agenda, one tweet at a time. But the White House has been quietly plowing ahead in one area that will affect generations of people: the courts.
Trump is unbelievably well-positioned to fill up federal courts with lifetime judges. He inherited a whopping 108 court vacancies when he became president ― double the number of vacancies President Barack Obama inherited when he took office.
The reason Trump gets to fill so many seats is partly because Obama was slow to fill court vacancies early in his tenure. But the main reason is Republicans years-long strategy of denying votes to Obamas court picks. They refused to recommend judicial nominees, filibustered others, used procedural rules to drag out the confirmation process and, by Obamas final year, blocked nominees they had recommended just to prevent him from filling more seats.
Court vacancies have only increased since Trump took office, as older judges have steadily retired. Trump has already nominated more than three times as many judges as Obama had at this point in his presidency ― 21 compared with six for Obama.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-judicial-nominees-federalist-society_us_59497166e4b04c5e50256f0c
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)This is a long term disaster in the making.