33 District Court Justices confirmed since April
11 Appeals Court Justices confirmed since March
Meanwhile, there are still over 50 more District Court Judges pending, three pending at the Appeals Court level, and another 9th Circuit Court Appeals Court Judges to be nominated in the next few weeks.
Once all of the District Court Judges have been confirmed, 130 of the 678 District Court Justices will be Trump appointees (or about 20%). Meanwhile, 45 of the approximately 180 Appeals Court Judges will be Trump appointees (which is about 25%).
To keep this in perspective, over eight years, Obama got 49 Appeals Court Judges confirmed, Bush Jr got 61 confirmed, Clinton got 62 confirmed, Bush Sr (one term) got 37 confirmed, and Reagan got 78 Appeals Court Judges confirmed. So Trump has already surpassed what Bush Sr got confirmed in his one term, and is within a handful of what Obama got confirmed over his two terms.
While he may or may not reach the same levels of success at the District Court level, it seems with pretty much every major District Court ruling challenged, the real action is at the Appellate court level anyways. We should be seeing more and more decisions being penned by Trump nominees over the next couple of years.
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The core to much of America's problems has been an activist court system. Trumps actions will do us more good over the long-term than anyone can imagine.
Now we just need to get a Republican Congress to work on some good legislation.
And any remaining deep-state actors (I suspect Wray for one). Boy were there a lot of them. Rumor has it that whistleblowers are flooding the system finally. And that would be great if true.
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