District Court judges aren’t that important.
Circuit Court judges are definitely important. Trump has had 26 confirmed. There are 14 more vacancies right now. Getting 3 more seated before the elections would be nice. It would put President atrump more than halfway towards countering the 55 Curcuit Court judges Obama placed on the court.
Obviously any additional SCOTUS appointment would be huge - particularly if it’s a replacement for any of the Gang of Four.
District Court judges aren’t that important.
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They are VERY important. The more District Court judges get in, the less often important cases will end up getting assigned to sitting ACTIVIST judges. Get ALL of Trump’s nominees confirmed ASAP.
Nice analysis but why 3 and not 14?
“District Court judges aren’t that important.”
I’l have to disagree on that one. solid, sound legal judgment at the district level will show that adults are in charge and there will be less nonsense to be sent downstream to the appellate courts.
“District Court judges aren’t that important.”
They are the ones issuing one preliminary injunction after another any time Trump tries to reverse an Obama executive order and any time Trump does anything on immigration.
There are a lot of obamajudges out there at the district court level who believe anything to the right of Che Guevara is unconstitutional.
District Court judges are assigned randomly to new cases. So 40 new judges makes it a lot harder for sjw attorneys to get a case assigned to an obamajudge.