Conservatives have a breathtaking plan for Trump to pack the courts

WaPo ^

[TigerClaws]

Conservatives have a new court-packing plan, and in the spirit of the holiday, it’s a turducken of a scheme: a regulatory rollback hidden inside a civil rights reversal stuffed into a Trumpification of the courts. If conservatives get their way, President Trump will add twice as many lifetime members to the federal judiciary in the next 12 months (650) as Barack Obama named in eight years (325). American law will never be the same.

The “outer turkey” in the plan is the ongoing Trumpification of the courts. In the final two years of Obama’s presidency, Senate Republicans engaged in tenacious obstruction to leave as many judicial vacancies unfilled as possible. The Garland-to-Gorsuch Supreme Court switch is the most visible example of this tactic but far from the only one: Due to GOP obstruction, “the number of [judicial] vacancies . . . on the table when [Trump] was sworn in was unprecedented,” White House Counsel Donald McGahn recently boasted to the conservative Federalist Society.

Trump is wasting no time in filling the 103 judicial vacancies he inherited. In the first nine months of Obama’s tenure, he nominated 20 judges to the federal trial and appellate courts; in Trump’s first nine months, he named 58. Senate Republicans are racing these nominees through confirmation; last week, breaking a 100-year-old tradition, they eliminated the “blue slip” rule that allowed home-state senators to object to particularly problematic nominees. The rush to Trumpify the judiciary includes nominees rated unqualified by the American Bar Association, nominees with outrageously conservative views and nominees significantly younger (and, therefore, likely to serve longer) than those of previous presidents. As a result, by sometime next year, 1 in 8 cases filed in federal court will be heard by a judge picked by Trump. Many of these judges will likely still be serving in 2050.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

“A packed jury, a packed court and a stuffed ballot box are all on the same moral plane. This is more power than a good man should want or a bad man should have.”

That also applies to Obama's ballot box stuffing via immigration EO.

[Tunehead54]

Good analysis bump ... Thanks!

[Disestablishmentarian]

>>But if Dems somehow take over the US Senate in 2018 ... <<

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There is NO CHANCE of this happening. The math HEAVILY favors Republicans INCREASING in Senate in 2018-—maybe even achieving a genuine majority.

Add that the replacement of Flake, Corker & maybe McCain, and the second 2 years could be really good for legislation.

BUILD THE WALL!

[SamAdams76]

If Hillary had won she would have the same number of ‘picks’ and the little sh*ts at the Washington Post would be brimming with praise.

That's what they were expecting. That's why they and liberals in general are so angry and hateful. They had their dreams snatched out from under them on Nov 8 2016.