Posted on 09/14/2014 5:07:26 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Democrats have reversed the partisan imbalance on the federal appeals courts that long favored conservatives, a little-noticed shift with far-reaching consequences for the law and President Obama’s legacy.
For the first time in more than a decade, judges appointed by Democratic presidents considerably outnumber judges appointed by Republican presidents. The Democrats’ advantage has only grown since late last year when they stripped Republicans of their ability to filibuster the president’s nominees.
Democratic appointees who hear cases full time now hold a majority of seats on nine of the 13 United States Courts of Appeals. When Mr. Obama took office, only one of those courts had more full-time judges nominated by a Democrat.
The shift, one of the most significant but unheralded accomplishments of the Obama era, is likely to have ramifications for how the courts decide the legality of some of the president’s most controversial actions on health care, immigration and clean air. Since today’s Congress has been a graveyard for legislative accomplishment, these judicial confirmations are likely to be among its most enduring acts.
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Evil has a name and a face
Yeah, stacking the courts with communists and muzzies is one of Zero’s priorities. The legacy he leaves will be the worst of any president...If we survive it.He’s already appointed two bull dykes to the supreme court
Oh don’t worry it would have been as bad under Romney. /s
Just another of many reasons it matters when Democrats are elected. These are all lifetime appointments so they will be there to trouble us under presidents Palin, Cruz, Paul and beyond.
Since the Democrats changed the laws to appoint their own judicial system, the law really doesn’t mean much now. They openly break the laws, then make laws to control their opponents. Laws are no longer morally based, but are agenda based for immoral goals...
When we rejected the bible’s ten commandment laws in the name of freedom, we were buried and chained in a hundred thousand unjust laws of man.
So since it now favors Dems it is no longer partisan? I will just consider the source.
from the paper that claims to have "the world's finest journalism".
It would serve the RATS right if we take the Senate, and POTUS in 2016, and Jan 2017 the liberals in the USSC start dropping like flies in a barn full of ‘bug bombs’.
5-6 new rock-ribbed conservatives about 35 years old on the USSC and everything O’bastard has done could be reversed.
The USSC could put in an express lane and overturn everything the lower courts do.
And these are the things the average voter pays no attention to. Shame on them.
yes and soon enough it will be known as the Federal injustice system
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