Posted on 11/24/2017 6:24:29 PM PST by 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.
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Not tired of winning yet! MAGA!
WHAT? Are you mad? Merrick is a gun-grabber! NEVER, NEVER, should another gun-grabber get on the Supreme Court. Shall. Not. Be. Infringed!
We want ‘em done for ever!
NeverTrumpers were willing to hand the judiciary to Hildabeast?
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Exactly! NeverTrumpers just another branding of the Uniparty.
I would love for RBG to move on to what is next, but she apparently works out regularly and is hanging on for longer than I would have thought. That does trouble me.
After seeing some of the totally baseless and patently politicized assertions of judicial power over national defense matters, matters constitutionally entrusted to the president with congress —� not the judiciary — —� I’m all for president Trump selecting some new and hopefully constitutionally- minded judges. And anyway it’s his job to nominate people to fill judicial vacancies.
Yeah, if Hillary was president, they wouldn’t be writing this.
I’m not seeing a problem here.
It's a done deal, thanks to Dingy Harry.
Never put a leftist on the court. NEVER.
>>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.
This is why the Globalists want to hand the Senate over to the Dems ASAP. Keep winning, President Trump!
Way to go, GOP obstruction! I don't see what WaPo is crying about; this whole article is great news.
By the end of next year we could have the Trump Court of the United States.
From a Liberal's perspective it's nightmarish. For those of us who love America, it would be a dream come true.
They're not pretending. They really don't know.
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.
‘After years of an obstructionist White House which continued to nominate hacks instead of judges, the Senate is rolling through the smooth nomination process, even taking the unusual step of removing the ability of sore loser senators from blocking nominations without cause...’
The writer deserves to be beaten with a nail-studded baseball bat for this particular lie...
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