Posted on 06/23/2017 8:10:34 AM PDT by pgkdan
While Democrats obsess over the Russia hacking fantasy and Robert Mueller as Trump's Javert, President Trump, the Federalist Society, and Senator Chuck Grassley are on the way to making the federal judiciary great again. The Huffington Post noticed and is worried:
Trump is unbelievably well positioned to fill up federal courts with lifetime judges. He inherited a whopping 108 court vacancies when he became president – double the number of vacancies President Barack Obama inherited when he took office.
The reason Trump gets to fill so many seats is partly because Obama was slow to fill court vacancies early in his tenure. But the main reason is Republicans' yearslong strategy of denying votes to Obama's court picks. They refused to recommend judicial nominees, filibustered others, used procedural rules to drag out the confirmation process and, by Obama's final year, blocked nominees they had recommended just to prevent him from filling more seats.
Yep: Sometimes the Stupid Party actually does its job.
Elections have consequences, and when voters handed control of the Senate to the GOP, Senator Grassley – the very opposite of a showboater – did his job as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee with skill. Now he is poised to capitalize on that control, using the Dems' "Reid Rule" that abolished the filibuster for judicial nominations, and will supplement it with another reform that will prevent Dems from obstructing appointments to the Circuit Courts of Appeals:
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You mean like ‘Barefoot and pregnant, in the kitchen where they belong?’ </sarc>
Being done already. 13 gone last week. Have to replace them w someone
... require judges to be cut in half as well. ...
No. He chickened out. LOL Thank heaven...
Clarence Thomas, THE most conservative Justice on the court.
Great news!
Maybe I ought to stop saying bad things about ol' Harry. What a guy...
He truly fits the definition of a "useful idiot ".
Payback for the panic these azzclowns caused the country by fostering upon us an unvetted foreign muslim usurping Kenyan that worked feverishly to destroy us.
They’ve got a whole lot more coming to em than just a few conservative judges.
Their “panic” has not even gotten a good start yet.
Break \up the 9th circus
It seems some people think the repubs are going to do something. Look at their track record...all talk, no action.
We could at least try! Where’s your can do spirit
Bet they’re SOO glad they created the nuclear option, huh?
You’re so critical.
“:^)
80 % of fed cases are decided in “administrative hearing”....a practice B.O. pushed and it has become HUGE.......its totally UN-constiutional ....and IF the MORONS in the Republican party GOT their SHT together.......Then once declared illegal....TRUMP would have to HIRE 1000 NEW judges to handle the OVERLOAD.......IT would be NICE FOR ONCE.....if the ESTABLISHED republicans could do ONE DAMN THING RIGHT.
THEY could SET THE TONE OF THE COURT FOR 50 YRS.....if they WANTED TO.
Trump needs to create a 12th Circuit Court, and move out of the 9th Circuit Court all States except California and Hawaii. Current 9th Circuit appeals time is 15 months and automatically anti-conservative. Unacceptable.
Yes, HuffPo, Trump is unbelievable.
Well at least you could try. I’ll come over and give you a hand. We can try different methods until we come up with a viable solution or until we run outta peeps
I am of the opinion that President Trump should start conversation about how long it takes to get to an immigration hearing. Then after the pressure builds up some, put forward a plan to double the number of immigration judges.
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