Senate confirms avalanche of Trump-backed judges despite impeachment

[livingston]

Senate confirms avalanche of Trump-backed judges despite impeachment
A record number of judicial confirmations is cementing one of Trump’s central campaign pledges — and will reverberate for decades, even if impeachment pulls the plug on his presidency.

When Trump took office, nine of the nation’s 13 circuit courts were dominated by Democratic appointees. Now, seven of them have Republican majorities.

Trump has had 50 of his circuit-court judges confirmed — far more than any other recent president at this point in their first terms. President Barack Obama managed just half that number, 25, in the same time frame.

Altogether, 187 Trump-nominated federal judges have been confirmed by the Senate — outpacing the 169 new judges named by George W. Bush and the 166 brought on board by Bill Clinton in their first three years.

Senate confirms avalanche of Trump-backed judges despite impeachment

A steady stream of judges being confirmed is cementing one of Donald nTrump’s central campaign pledges — even if impeachment pulls the plug on his presidency.

nypost.com

 

[repete]

Its a good start, keep going!

 

[SomeSoldier]

This only means there are elections coming up. Appointing judges is the only thing the Republicans do for their base. If they didnt keep that up there wouldnt be any voters.

 

[Robin]

Twenty years ago I said McConnell was a good one and took some heat for it. I admit I have had some doubts over the years but I truly believe Trump has given him and others new life and they have rediscovered who they really are and their will to fight the good fight. Take it to them Cocaine Mitch!!!!
Robin

 

[SomeSoldier]

Twenty years ago I said McConnell was a good one and took some heat for it. I admit I have had some doubts over the years but I truly believe Trump has given him and others new life and they have rediscovered who they really are and their will to fight the good fight. Take it to them Cocaine Mitch!!!!
Robin

I don't believe that. Repubs are looking out for themselves, that is all.

 

[Carlos Hathcock]

 

[livingston]

Somber MSNBC Panel Hits Panic Button Over the McConnell-Trump Judicial Confirmation Record
Liberal legal analyst Danielle McLaughlin said in a panicked voice that she had no idea what the Democratic counter-strategy was, outside of “literally hoping Ruth Bader Ginsburg survives.”
There was a lot of phony media reporting this week about how Democrats were supposedly treating their impeachment of President Trump as a “somber” moment in American history.



But one place where there actually were somber faces was on Monday’s “MSNBC Live” show, where co-hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle were busy hitting the panic button over the amount of Trump-nominated judges Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has successfully confirmed.
I’m always more than a little amused when I hear or read about liberals talking about how Republicans allegedly “messed up” the confirmation system for Democratic presidents. Last I checked, the party that controls the Senate is not duty-bound to even consider judicial appointments they’re uncomfortable with, much less confirm them.

The “system” McLaughlin and other leftists like to claim Republicans “messed up” under Obama is, in reality, “the system” in which Obama radically transformed courts across the country during the six years Democrats controlled the Senate under his presidency.

His transforming of various courts was even noticed by liberal newspapers and other publications who were otherwise predisposed to lament on how President Obama’s nominations were being “obstructed” by Senate Republicans the last two years he was in office.

For example, in a 2014 piece on the way Obama had already radically changed the federal judiciary, the New Yorker reported:

The transformation of the D.C. Circuit has been replicated in federal courts around the country. Obama has had two hundred and eighty judges confirmed, which represents about a third of the federal judiciary. Two of his choices, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, were nominated to the Supreme Court; fifty-three were named to the circuit courts of appeals, two hundred and twenty-three to the district courts, and two to the Court of International Trade. When Obama took office, Republican appointees controlled ten of the thirteen circuit courts of appeals; Democratic appointees now constitute a majority in nine circuits. Because federal judges have life tenure, nearly all of Obama’s judges will continue serving well after he leaves office.

Somber MSNBC Panel Hits Panic Button Over the McConnell-Trump Judicial Confirmation Record

Liberal legal analyst Danielle McLaughlin said in a panicked voice that she had no idea what the Democratic counter-strategy was, outside of “literally hoping Ruth Bader Ginsburg survives.'

legalinsurrection.com