Trump and the Courts: An awesome record if you are a conservative Patiot.

The Hill:   President Trump and Senate Republicans have had extraordinary success pushing judicial nominees through the confirmation process at a rapid clip, giving the GOP reason to
Amid the impeachment hearings, the Trump administration has flipped the majorities of two appeals courts to Republican-appointed judges, meaning GOP appointees now outnumber Democrats on most of the nation's circuit courts. That success has prompted conservative leaders to take victory laps in recent weeks.
Confirming ideologically conservative judges has been a top priority for Senate Republicans. Trump’s pace of filling vacancies on the top appellate courts, with the help of the GOP-controlled Senate, has eclipsed the numbers put up by every other president in recent decades.
celebrate even as the White House is embroiled in an impeachment inquiry that’s dominating Washington.

And since federal judges have lifetime appointments, the volume of Trump’s nominees means more judges are poised to carry on his legacy for decades after he leaves office.
“From his perspective, and the perspective of the right, it's the most successful aspect of this administration,” said Daniel Epps, a legal professor at the Washington University School of Law.
“And they've been very aggressive about identifying candidates who are young and who are very ideologically conservative,”
Epps added. “Those two characteristics are what the people doing the selecting have really emphasized.”
Since taking office, Trump has successfully nominated two Supreme Court justices, 48 circuit court appellate judges and 112 district court trial judges.

In addition to getting two staunch conservatives onto the Supreme Court, Trump’s biggest judicial impact may be moving federal appeals courts further to the right. In recent weeks, his nominees have flipped majority control of the 11th and 2nd circuit courts to GOP-appointed judges.
More than half of the nation’s 12 circuit courts now have a majority of Republican-appointed judges.
The 48 circuit court judges confirmed during Trump’s presidency far outpaces those of his recent predecessors at comparable points in their presidencies: 23 for Barack Obama, 28 for George W. Bush, 27 for Bill Clinton and 29 for George H.W. Bush, according to data compiled by Russell Wheeler, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies program.



 

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