Currently, there are 112 district court vacancies and 11 appellate vacancies on the federal bench. Going into this election, the Senate had confirmed 84 Trump judges.
If Trump fills all of the current vacancies, nearly one in four federal judges will have been appointed by Trump. This does not take into account any additional vacancies that could come up over the next two years. This could have a transformative effect on the judicial branch, and will likely figure heavily in the 2020 election as Trump will tout judges as a leading example of how he delivered for conservatives.
It's likely that with the House on a subpoena rampage, that McConnell will have a whole bunch of time on his hands. What better way to use that time, than to continue with Judicial appointee hearings and debate.
Of the 84 confirmed Judges from Trump's first term, many of them were appellate court nominees (which by nature are more important and take a little longer). This time around, Trump will be concentrating on those district court vacancies, where these cases garner their original decisions. It would be nice to see a few more District Court decisions go the "right" way, so that these appeals are having to come from the left (or wrong) side.
I suspect that McConnell and gang can rattle through those 123 vacancies in an expedited fashion.
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He will have to deal with a President who knows everything.
“They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”
What’s ahead? Other than attempted impeachment of the president? The progressive agenda will take shape in the House: probably a $15 minimum wage; maybe free college tuition and broad legalization of marijuana; almost certainly, tighter control of pharmacy prices and laxer oversight of immigration. Higher taxes on business will be proposed. Also, mandatory maternity leave from work. A federal support check for every taxpayer is a progressive notion looking better and better to poverty-fighters.
And what items on this large and luscious list will become law?
None of them, actually.
Not in 2019 and 2020. The Republican-controlled, and easily more conservative, Senate will shoot down all of them.
https://spectator.org/eyes-on-the-progressives/
so yeah, the senate proceeds on two tracks: shoot down liberal asshattery and load the courts with federalist society judges.
cocaine mitch completely obstructs pelosi and her daily mini-strokes.
i'll take that any day of the week.
He will have to deal with a President who knows everything.
And a host with the same delusions of grandeur..... funny how old know it all white men stick together!!!!....
oh, and the GOP senate majority gets to approve ruth buzzi ginsburg's replacement.
The White House blocked CIA Director Gina Haspel from attending a highly anticipated Senate briefing on Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary James Mattis told senators on Wednesday.
“The most persuasive presence at this briefing was an empty chair—a chair that should have been occupied by Gina Haspel, head of the Central Intelligence Agency,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) told reporters. “We were told at this briefing that it was at the direction of the White House that she not attend.”
Scott you lost the popular vote in the house elections nationwide. The educated women have been voting for the Democrats and nothing your President is capable of restoring their support to Republicans.
Scott you lost the popular vote in the house elections nationwide.
intelligent people realize that this is not a thing.
imbeciles? not so much.
this is why you and your political pontifications can NEVER be taken seriously around here.
“We were told at this briefing that it was at the direction of the White House that she not attend.”
well, that would be because assholes like dick head turban WERE in attendance.
and here's your plagiarized link alky:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-muzzled-cia-on-khashoggi-slaying-mattis-and-pompeo-say?source=articles&via=rss
personally, i'd prefer to have ms. haspel focused on issues of importance. not some dead moose-limb radical who was buddies with bin laden. fuck khasshogi and the camel he rode in on.
Who cares if a member of the Moslem Brotherhood got whacked?
Who was the American, Obama had whacked in the ME and liver cheered
Anwar al-Awlaki
0linsky vaporized his ass and the alky was so excited he spilled his vodka tonic all over his walker.
in the meantime the messican drug cartels are killing reporters for sport by the dozen, and our media doesn't give a fuck because their deaths can't be used to fuck with trump.
huh.
virtue-signalling resistance asswipes bring back "murphy brown" because trump.
"murphy brown" gets cancelled.
heh.
"Scott you lost the popular vote in the house elections nationwide."
What idiot posted the above. Who ever it was is still confused about state elections and how US President are Elected.
Pelosi is the New House Speaker.
Hillary, Bill and chealsee shake down foundation had very little money flowing in, but why?
He will have to deal with a President who knows everything.
“They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”
gosh,
sounds eerily familiar, eh alky?
“I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
This quote was attributed to Obama by Patrick Gaspard, who was Obama’s first White House political director, in an interview with The New Yorker in November 2008.
https://www.politico.com/story/2012/10/10-quotes-that-haunt-obama-081895
More Winning, President Trump.
Federal reserve finally listened to him.
Dow up 600 +.
Scott you lost the popular vote in the house elections nationwide.
I did? Didn't know I was on the house election ballot?
Either way, what does that have to do with Trump and the GOP Senate nominating and confirming all sorts of adult Judges to our court system?
Oh wait, I know... NOTHING!!!
It has nothing to do with it!
25% of the Judiciary will be Trump nominees!
I did? Didn't know I was on the house election ballot?
i put you down as a write-in for the house seat in NY-20.
i put you down as a write-in for the house seat in NY-20.
Did you write in Cold Heart?
You know I once got 112 write in votes for Mayor of Mankato Minnesota (I was 19 at the time and running on the "Fun Ticket").
My argument was that our Mayorship was mainly a P.R. position. Ribbon cutting, parades, county fairs, and such... Why have some old fart who is all worried about city finances and crap.
Anwar al-Awlaki
That’s him and then jug ears walks around the staff and proclaimed, I’m really good at killing peopl
Lynchings are going to return."
This is dumber then Cortez stupid, this is Alky stupid.
Was there a lynching today alky?
Obama is pathetic, out attempting to take credit for all the good in the US economy.
Like gas prices lower then when he was in office.
My argument was that our Mayorship was mainly a P.R. position. Ribbon cutting, parades, county fairs, and such... Why have some old fart who is all worried about city finances and crap.
oh, so you really ran as a democrat.
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