[zeestephen]

Re: District judges are trial judges, and so not worth the fight.

I strongly disagree.

Trial judges write new Common Law and create new Precedents every day.

The idea that voting “NO” requires some kind of fight does not make sense.

I mean, is a Hard Left Senator going to go home and tell his constituents he votes “YES” for Conservative judges because it’s not worth the fight?

The reason they elected him is because he PROMISED to fight.

As far as Circuit Court judges, Trump went off the rails for most of 2018.

But, for the last six months, almost every one of his Circuit nominations has received massive Democrat opposition - which is very encouraging.

[FtrPilot]

I strongly agree with your disagree...and would add:

Appellate court judges are usually selected from a list of district court judges. The rulings that a district court judge makes indicate the type of appellate judge they would be.

[cotton1706]

I was speaking historically. Neither side has put uo much of a fight on district judges. Large numbers were frequently confirmed en masse by voice vote at the end of a session, for example.

But you are correct, and that’s how we get hatebrained decisions from a single district judge blocking this or that across the board.

[SuperLuminal]

"Trial judges write new Common Law and create new Precedents every day."

Yep! Need to cut down that crap...