Don't Forget About Trump's Judicial Nominees. Another 44 Just Moved Forward.
02/07/2019 08:14 pm ET
His picks for lifetime federal court seats have records of attacking LGBTQ rights, abortion rights and voting rights.
By Jennifer Bendery
WASHINGTON ― Its hard to keep up with everything going on in Washington, but if theres one thing constantly humming along in the background, its the Republican effort to push through President Donald Trumps judicial nominees.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to send 44 of Trumps court picks to the Senate floor for a confirmation vote. Thats a huge number at once; progressive judicial advocacy groups dubbed the committees hearing a monster markup.
Most of these nominees were introduced in the last Congress but didnt get confirmed in time, so Republicans are expediting them in one big batch.
Thursdays action comes as Trump has already drastically reshaped federal courts. To date, he has seen 30 circuit judges, 53 district judges and two Supreme Court justices confirmed. Thats so many circuit judges ― more than any other president had confirmed by this point in his first term ― that 1 in 6 seats on the U.S. circuit courts are now filled by judges nominated by Trump.
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