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Donald Trump’s historic opportunity to remake the courts, in 1 chart
The Washington Post ^ | January 10, 2017 | Chris Cillizza

Posted on 01/10/2017 4:22:57 PM PST by Clintonfatigued

Unlike many things that Trump said during the course of the campaign, he wasn't exaggerating about the massive impact he can have on the federal judiciary. The chart below, which comes from the must-have quarterly PowerPoint slide decks of GOP lobbyist Bruce Mehlman, makes that point starkly.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: courts; judges; judiciary; scotus; trump
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1 posted on 01/10/2017 4:22:57 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
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To: fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; Impy; GOPsterinMA; randita; Sun; NFHale; ExTexasRedhead; GeronL; ..

Can you imagine a Supreme Court with 4 Trump appointees on it? Sounds great to me!


2 posted on 01/10/2017 4:24:37 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Federal courts ping


3 posted on 01/10/2017 4:25:17 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: Clintonfatigued

This is why the Left is so unhinged.


4 posted on 01/10/2017 4:27:30 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Trump needs a huge list in case of assasination attempts.


5 posted on 01/10/2017 4:27:56 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Excellent.

Can you believe that paper would publish a photo like that of Trump?

It’s just juvenile.

For years here, I tried to post decent photos of people I didn’t agree with.

The WP is supposed to be one of the most respected papers in the nation. And yet, it publishes a photo like that.

Junior high school papers would try to do better than that.


6 posted on 01/10/2017 4:28:29 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Why do they use unflattering pictures of Trump?


7 posted on 01/10/2017 4:28:40 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (STOP THE TAPE!!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Anybody willing to post the chart? I don’t click WaPo.


8 posted on 01/10/2017 4:29:05 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Clintonfatigued

It would insure a solid court for two to four decades into the future, if done right.


9 posted on 01/10/2017 4:29:45 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Recall John McCain. NOW, before he gets us in WWIII.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Why do they use unflattering pictures of Trump?

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because this is one of many ways to insult and degrade him.

The ROARING RIGHT should do the same. Bad pics of all the leftists. Always.


10 posted on 01/10/2017 4:30:11 PM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

The Washington Post is a very biased paper.

But the news is good.


11 posted on 01/10/2017 4:30:32 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (The barbarians are inside because there are no gates)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Has anyone noticed the unflattering Trump photographs that seem to always appear in an article? This is on purpose. People tend not to like or trust somebody pictured with their mouth open. Next time you see photos of Democrats and Republicans count the number of each with their mouth’s open or with a dumb expression. This is what drives me crazy about the media. Even when the article is a recitation of facts they are still using propaganda techniques and those things work. After four years people will develop a more negative opinion and they won’t have any idea of why.


12 posted on 01/10/2017 4:31:41 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Clintonfatigued

Everything the Leftists do is to promote their Narrative (correct “feelings”).

It is psy-ops that work really well on the uninformed and ignorant. It controls people’s “feelings” of a person. Put up ugly, stupid-looking photos and the masses “think” of that person as stupid and dumb.

That is how I knew that Drudge was not controlled by Leftists. By the pictures he would post-—really awful ones of Hillary, Clinton and Obama.... LOL Besides not sitting on and hiding the rapists’ pornographic acts in the White House.


13 posted on 01/10/2017 4:36:20 PM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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14 posted on 01/10/2017 4:39:18 PM PST by nwrep
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To: nwrep

Awfully kind of you to post the figure. Thanks.


15 posted on 01/10/2017 4:52:55 PM PST by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: nwrep

This buries the lead. The real judicial war won’t be the nominee that replaces Scalia. It will be the nominee that replace Ruth Buzzi Ginsberg. Would be really funny if Trump nominated Merrick Garland to replace her.


16 posted on 01/10/2017 5:10:01 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Get used to it - President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Chickensoup
Every time you see one like that post this one 10 times elsewhere:
17 posted on 01/10/2017 5:36:39 PM PST by Phil DiBasquette
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To: nwrep

Thanks.

L


18 posted on 01/10/2017 5:37:40 PM PST by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Yep, for decades they have relied on activist judges to create laws that the people and the states rejected.


19 posted on 01/10/2017 5:38:10 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
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To: DoughtyOne

The Washington Poop is just a propaganda outlet for the government/globalists/CIA - No more believable to me than Bagdad Bob or TASS.


20 posted on 01/10/2017 5:44:49 PM PST by greeneyes
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