Question about President Trump’s federal judgeship appointments

O’Bama left somewhere around 140 seats open.

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lazy is lazy

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Lazy has nothing to do with it.

Obama left 140 open because Mitch McConnell pretty much stopped judicial confirmations in the last two years of his presidency after the GOP took over the Senate. It wasn't just Merrick Garland that was blocked.

Mitch only allowed through a select few that had support from republican senators.

For example, Obama only managed to get just two appellate judges through and one of them was assigned to patent court.

For comparison's sake, 10 such appellate judges were confirmed during the last two years of the Bush 43 presidency, and Democrats controlled the Senate.

There has also been other reforms in how the seats are filled IIRC.

I don’t believe a judge can be blocked by their home state senator anymore due to that senator refusing to turn in the paperwork saying “confirm them”.


Lots of seats stayed vacant because one senator from a state would block certain applicants.

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A cocaine fueled turtle saved the Republic.

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The Democrats will court pack next time they have power. They have to overcome the judicial branch somehow

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The Democrats will court pack next time they have power. They have to overcome the judicial branch somehow

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No they won't. They'll try but it ain't gonna happen. Even they know how badly that would blow up on them.

I assume you're referencing their threat to seat 13 SCOTUS judges thus upping the number well above the traditional 9?

If they tried that it would blow up on them worse than this impeachment thing is blowing up on them.

With that said, the way they are packing the voting blocks with liberal voters and immigrants and brainwashed kids and DACA kids and their path to citizenship.... there may come a day when no Branch ever has a chance of being Republican controlled ever again.

As a matter of fact Obama has gone on record as saying that his policies will not take full effect until twenty years after he left office for just that reason.