Trump Admin, Senate Reshaping Federal Courts

[jimnyc]

Hasn't been discussed much, but will be felt for much time to come. Perhaps not as important as 2 judges in the SC, but quite the layout around the country in instilling conservative judges for years and years to come. As I said prior to his even taking office - the appointment of the SC and further judges was so important that it made it almost a success for them alone.

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Trump Admin, Senate Reshaping Federal Courts

The Senate has installed 24 appellate judges since President Donald Trump was sworn in over a year ago, and is pushing forward with the confirmation of two more judges by the end of this week, as Trump continues to dramatically alter the ideological makeup of the federal judiciary for generations to come, The Washington Post reports.

There are 13 appellate courts that sit below the U.S. Supreme Court and their cases deal with how to interpret federal laws, bureaucratic regulations and rules, the Constitution, and executive orders. The Trump administration has placed a strategic focus on these courts as they have a more powerful effect on policy and legal change, according to CNN, and as a way to terminate Obama era policies.

"The Supreme Court gets the bulk of the attention, but the circuit courts decide the bulk of the cases," Arthur D. Hellman, a University of Pittsburgh law professor who studies the federal judiciary, told the Post. "Because the Supreme Court these days is taking so few cases, the law of the circuit is, on many, many issues, the final law for the people who live in that circuit."

There are 13 vacancies to fill of 179 on the U.S. Court of Appeals. If Trump and Republicans move fast enough, they will have installed more than 20 percent of the judges on the nation's second-highest courts.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is behind the push. The Senate Majority Leader canceled most of the chamber's traditional summer August recess to "pass legislation, including appropriations bills, and to make additional progress on the president's nominees," he said in June, and earlier hailed confirmations in an op-ed for the January National Review.

"One of the most significant accomplishments in President Donald Trump's first year will serve Americans for decades to come, yet it has received very little fanfare," wrote McConnell with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa.

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fed.../15/id/877208/

[FakeNewsSux]

The one thing that I am grateful to Sen. Mitch McConnell for.

[LongTermGuy]

And then.....the Ninth Circuit court



"If the Trump administration fills the eight vacancies, the count of Democratic appointees to Republican appointees will fall to 16-13.
...(The declared future vacancy is that of a Republican appointee, N. Randy Smith, so filling that vacancy won’t increase the net Republican appointee number.)

***Further, some nine or so of those 16 Democratic appointees are, or will very soon be, eligible to take senior status or retire, so it’s not entirely far fetched to envision a scenario in which Republican appointees make up a majority of the Ninth Circuit."

https://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/improving-the-ninth-circuit/