Posted on 12/19/2019 6:36:56 AM PST by Liberty7732
“It is up to us to reclaim our heritage of equal and impartial justice. It is up to us to re-dedicate ourselves to the traditions and wisdom of our Founders.”
— PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP AT THE SWEARING IN CEREMONY OF BRETT KAVANAUGH
While eyes are glued to the “historic” Congressional impeachment poppycock that will be relegated to footnote status a nanosecond after the Senate votes, real and lasting work by President Trump and the Republican Senate continues to get done.
What was somewhat missed in Trump’s wildly successful last few weeks — a new North American trade agreement, stunning employment numbers, a full budget, and an interim China trade deal — was that the number of approved federal judges is just racing forward.
This is incredibly important and the media just isn’t interested. But the reality is that as great as a strong economy and fair trade agreements are, the longest lasting effect of any President is in the courts. Economies go up and down and policies change with administrations, but judges are forever (well, in figurative political terms.)
Over a 10-day period at the beginning of December, the Senate confirmed eight more district court judges to the bench and two more judges to the notorious U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Steadily, the Ninth Circuit is becoming less radical and threatening to American liberties. And that is true for the entire federal judiciary.
Trump has already appointed more judges to the federal court in less than three years than President Obama did in his first full term, including flipping the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from a majority appointed by Democrats to a majority appointed by Republicans. Further, Trump and the Republican Senate are about to flip, this month, the Second and Eleventh Circuits from Democrat-appointed majorities to Republican.
And finally, on the impact side of this, the average age of circuit judges appointed by Trump is less than 50 years old, which is a decade younger than the average age of Obama’s circuit judge appointments, meaning they are likely to stay on the courts much longer.
It’s not just the quantity of judges, but the quality of judges.
Jonathan Adler at Reason wrote, “Contrary to common characterizations in the press and punditocracy, President Trump’s nominees have, on the whole, been quite impressive and highly qualified. While there are some notable exceptions, the qualifications of Trump’s judicial nominees compare favorably with those of his predecessors.”
Through 2018, the Congressional Research Service revealed that a higher percentage of judges nominated by President Trump received “Well Qualified” ratings from the American Bar Association than any modern President except for George W. Bush. That trend has continued into 2019. So for the first three years of Trump appointments, judicial nominees rated “well qualified” are running at a higher percentage than Obama’s — and that’s with an increasingly partisan ABA doing the rating.
Of course, these facts will virtually never be reported in the mainstream media. But they are important for the quality of the decisions that will be coming for decades. Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham gets it.
“As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I will continue to push through highly qualified, conservative judges at all levels of the federal courts,” Graham said. “These conservative judicial appointments will impact our nation for years to come.”
Decades. Even generations. All as the impeachment disappears in a political blink.
Ah wouldn’t it be nice to hear POTUS tweet something about this? About doing the job of POTUS and give appointing judges as an example? That would be awesome to see the heads explode.
The three Democrat “rules”:
The only way the GOP Senators can prove they’re “impartial” is to convict and remove Trump.
The Founders who just a few days ago, were “racist old white men” none of whom were worthy of a statue in the park. But now… they and the Constitution are “sacred”... as in this “solemn” case of impeachment (which they really didn’t want to have to do!).
Speaker Pelosi prays for (preys on?) the president... and only by his removal can the Republic (aka: Deep State) be saved! #RustyIrony
ANY election that Democrats lose… is “stolen.”
President Trump is the greatest man I know.
It’s not just the quantity of judges, but the quality of judges.
Jonathan Adler at Reason wrote, “Contrary to common characterizations in the press and punditocracy, President Trump’s nominees have, on the whole, been quite impressive and highly qualified. While there are some notable exceptions, the qualifications of Trump’s judicial nominees compare favorably with those of his predecessors.”
Through 2018, the Congressional Research Service revealed that a higher percentage of judges nominated by President Trump received “Well Qualified” ratings from the American Bar Association than any modern President except for George W. Bush. That trend has continued into 2019. So for the first three years of Trump appointments, judicial nominees rated “well qualified” are running at a higher percentage than Obama’s — and that’s with an increasingly partisan ABA doing the rating.
Of course, these facts will virtually never be reported in the mainstream media.
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Worth repeating and remembering.
I love it...quietly under the radar he is fundamentally transforming the Country back from the magic Muslims greasy grips. Still almost a year to go before he gets 4 more years....The populace is steaming mad at what these deomncraps did....RED WAVE in 2020.
Maybe this whole impeachment thing is to enable the Democrats to say that Trump can’t appoint a replacement for Ginsberg while impeachment is hanging over him. Meanwhile, they refuse to turn the case over to the Senate, and instead argue about whether the Senators who have said they will not be impartial cannot try the case.
Thats only an argument they can make in the public domain. The house has no say in the appointment of judges. That power rests in the senate.
President Trump and Leader Mitch McConnell are transforming the legal landscape for a hundred years. God Bless them... they've given us hope.... we can do this.
President Trump and Leader Mitch McConnell are transforming the legal landscape for a hundred years. God Bless them... they've given us hope.... we can do this.
As great as Trump has been on a range of issues, him dragging the federal courts back to sanity has probably been his greatest accomplishment. Three years ago the Supreme Court was on the verge of a hard Left takeover. Now with one more term, it’s highly likely Trump will be able to secure our constitutional rights for another generation by replacing one or even two of the Gang of Four on the Supreme Court. Appointing a bunch of Circuit Court judges is almost as important.
The Senate Democrats will raise a big stink, and so will the press. Hearings will be long and drawn out. Even if Ginsberg were to die today, they could stall the appointment of a replacement until after the election. Many Republican Senators would be sensitive to criticism in the press that they are allowing an impeached president to appoint a Supreme Court justice.
As long as the impeachment is unresolved, it is a weapon. How effective is hard to say. Time will tell.
While it is essential to appoint both district court and appellate court judges, I wonder about the calculations of which appointments and when.
There might not be any good, seasoned appointments left for the appellate courts right now, so maybe President Trump is using his district court appointments as a minor league, so that the best performers can move up to the appellate courts in his second term.
But in turn, this should mean that the conservative legal organizations should be intensively training future attorneys to become replacement district court judges.
The replacement for RBG will be a $hit show, like Kavanaugh, but the process (whether federal judges or SC justices) will be controlled by McConnell and Graham. In the end, they will be approved, and the further whining from dems will just continue to remind voters, right up to the day they cast their ballots, of all crap the dem party has been spewing since 2016. The media credibility has been spent.
The magnificent rope-a-dope continues unabated...
Once in control, Democrats will work to invalidate all, unless they favor them.
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