Democrat Obstruction Leads to More Court Vacancies Than When Trump Took Office

dailysignal.com ^ | 3/7/18 | Fred Lucas

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President Donald Trump had a successful year in seating appeals court judges, but it is lower-level federal courts that have blocked much of his policy agenda, including withholding funds from sanctuary cities and restricting travel from some nations.

Trump came into office in January 2017 with 108 vacancies on the federal bench. Despite rapidly moving to fill the seats, he now has 178 current and known future vacancies, according to the Judicial Crisis Network.

The conservative group reports 146 current vacancies on federal courts and 32 known future vacancies, meaning judges who have announced they will retire. Of the total vacancies, 25 are appeals court judges and 153 are district or specialty court judges.

“The vast, vast majority of cases are decided at the lower court level,” Carrie Severino, general counsel and policy director for the Judicial Crisis Network, told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.

“The Supreme Court can’t fix all judicial activism,” she said. “We’ve seen district judges put injunctions on the administration’s sanctuary cities policy, and President Trump’s immigration order. Judges take the law into their own hands at the lower level too.”

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McConnell is the problem.

Bingo! By simply recessing the Senate all of Trumps appointments could get in overnight with recess appointments. Notice how its been in continuous session since the election?