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Dems begin to panic as Trump set to transform federal judiciary
The American Thinker ^ | 06/23/17 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 06/23/2017 8:10:34 AM PDT by pgkdan

While Democrats obsess over the Russia hacking fantasy and Robert Mueller as Trump's Javert, President Trump, the Federalist Society, and Senator Chuck Grassley are on the way to making the federal judiciary great again. The Huffington Post noticed and is worried:

Trump is unbelievably well positioned to fill up federal courts with lifetime judges. He inherited a whopping 108 court vacancies when he became president – double the number of vacancies President Barack Obama inherited when he took office.

The reason Trump gets to fill so many seats is partly because Obama was slow to fill court vacancies early in his tenure. But the main reason is Republicans' years­long strategy of denying votes to Obama's court picks. They refused to recommend judicial nominees, filibustered others, used procedural rules to drag out the confirmation process and, by Obama's final year, blocked nominees they had recommended just to prevent him from filling more seats.

Yep: Sometimes the Stupid Party actually does its job.

Elections have consequences, and when voters handed control of the Senate to the GOP, Senator Grassley – the very opposite of a showboater – did his job as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee with skill. Now he is poised to capitalize on that control, using the Dems' "Reid Rule" that abolished the filibuster for judicial nominations, and will supplement it with another reform that will prevent Dems from obstructing appointments to the Circuit Courts of Appeals:

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 115th; boogedyboogedy; burnitdown; courts; democrat; democratic; democrats; federal; federaljudges; federaljudiciary; grassley; judges; judiciary; second100days; trump; trumpfederaljudges; trumpjudges
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To: bankwalker

You mean like ‘Barefoot and pregnant, in the kitchen where they belong?’ </sarc>


61 posted on 06/23/2017 12:49:20 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Being done already. 13 gone last week. Have to replace them w someone


62 posted on 06/23/2017 1:00:10 PM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: DoughtyOne

... require judges to be cut in half as well. ...


You mean like Solomon?


63 posted on 06/23/2017 1:02:26 PM PDT by bIlluminati (Comey - Obstructing justice since 1995! Playing Comey Ping Pong.)
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To: bIlluminati

No. He chickened out. LOL Thank heaven...


64 posted on 06/23/2017 1:03:22 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: houeto

Clarence Thomas, THE most conservative Justice on the court.


I await the day when Clarence Thomas is the swing Justice on the Supreme Court.


65 posted on 06/23/2017 1:05:37 PM PDT by bIlluminati (Comey - Obstructing justice since 1995! Playing Comey Ping Pong.)
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To: LS

Great news!


66 posted on 06/23/2017 1:16:02 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: pgkdan
Now he is poised to capitalize on that control, using the Dems' "Reid Rule" that abolished the filibuster for judicial nominations...

Maybe I ought to stop saying bad things about ol' Harry. What a guy...

67 posted on 06/23/2017 1:27:45 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Billthedrill
Maybe I ought to stop saying bad things about ol' Harry.

He truly fits the definition of a "useful idiot ".

68 posted on 06/23/2017 1:30:37 PM PDT by windsorknot
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To: pgkdan

Payback for the panic these azzclowns caused the country by fostering upon us an unvetted foreign muslim usurping Kenyan that worked feverishly to destroy us.
They’ve got a whole lot more coming to em than just a few conservative judges.
Their “panic” has not even gotten a good start yet.


69 posted on 06/23/2017 3:40:22 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be liberal when you're dumber than a box of rocks.)
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To: pgkdan





70 posted on 06/23/2017 4:14:26 PM PDT by Cheerio (#44, The unknown President)
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To: pgkdan

Break \up the 9th circus


71 posted on 06/23/2017 5:04:15 PM PDT by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: hal ogen

It seems some people think the repubs are going to do something. Look at their track record...all talk, no action.


72 posted on 06/23/2017 5:57:28 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: DoughtyOne

We could at least try! Where’s your can do spirit


73 posted on 06/23/2017 6:40:47 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: pgkdan

Bet they’re SOO glad they created the nuclear option, huh?


74 posted on 06/23/2017 6:58:39 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Keyhopper

You’re so critical.

“:^)


75 posted on 06/23/2017 7:00:07 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

80 % of fed cases are decided in “administrative hearing”....a practice B.O. pushed and it has become HUGE.......its totally UN-constiutional ....and IF the MORONS in the Republican party GOT their SHT together.......Then once declared illegal....TRUMP would have to HIRE 1000 NEW judges to handle the OVERLOAD.......IT would be NICE FOR ONCE.....if the ESTABLISHED republicans could do ONE DAMN THING RIGHT.

THEY could SET THE TONE OF THE COURT FOR 50 YRS.....if they WANTED TO.


76 posted on 06/23/2017 10:13:54 PM PDT by Therapsid (eagan)
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To: pgkdan

Trump needs to create a 12th Circuit Court, and move out of the 9th Circuit Court all States except California and Hawaii. Current 9th Circuit appeals time is 15 months and automatically anti-conservative. Unacceptable.


77 posted on 06/24/2017 2:45:19 AM PDT by notasnowflake (fed up with snowflakes)
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To: snarkytart

Yes, HuffPo, Trump is unbelievable.


78 posted on 06/24/2017 5:15:19 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: DoughtyOne

Well at least you could try. I’ll come over and give you a hand. We can try different methods until we come up with a viable solution or until we run outta peeps


79 posted on 06/24/2017 6:43:03 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: pgkdan

I am of the opinion that President Trump should start conversation about how long it takes to get to an immigration hearing. Then after the pressure builds up some, put forward a plan to double the number of immigration judges.


80 posted on 06/24/2017 1:03:35 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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