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Conservatives have a breathtaking plan for Trump to pack the courts
WaPo ^

Posted on 11/24/2017 6:24:29 PM PST by TigerClaws

Conservatives have a new court-packing plan, and in the spirit of the holiday, it’s a turducken of a scheme: a regulatory rollback hidden inside a civil rights reversal stuffed into a Trumpification of the courts. If conservatives get their way, President Trump will add twice as many lifetime members to the federal judiciary in the next 12 months (650) as Barack Obama named in eight years (325). American law will never be the same.

The “outer turkey” in the plan is the ongoing Trumpification of the courts. In the final two years of Obama’s presidency, Senate Republicans engaged in tenacious obstruction to leave as many judicial vacancies unfilled as possible. The Garland-to-Gorsuch Supreme Court switch is the most visible example of this tactic but far from the only one: Due to GOP obstruction, “the number of [judicial] vacancies . . . on the table when [Trump] was sworn in was unprecedented,” White House Counsel Donald McGahn recently boasted to the conservative Federalist Society.

Trump is wasting no time in filling the 103 judicial vacancies he inherited. In the first nine months of Obama’s tenure, he nominated 20 judges to the federal trial and appellate courts; in Trump’s first nine months, he named 58. Senate Republicans are racing these nominees through confirmation; last week, breaking a 100-year-old tradition, they eliminated the “blue slip” rule that allowed home-state senators to object to particularly problematic nominees. The rush to Trumpify the judiciary includes nominees rated unqualified by the American Bar Association, nominees with outrageously conservative views and nominees significantly younger (and, therefore, likely to serve longer) than those of previous presidents. As a result, by sometime next year, 1 in 8 cases filed in federal court will be heard by a judge picked by Trump. Many of these judges will likely still be serving in 2050.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: courts; judges; trump; winning
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To: TigerClaws

Not tired of winning yet! MAGA!


41 posted on 11/24/2017 7:34:08 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ( DJT won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of MAGA. Civil war before we get more?)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

WHAT? Are you mad? Merrick is a gun-grabber! NEVER, NEVER, should another gun-grabber get on the Supreme Court. Shall. Not. Be. Infringed!


42 posted on 11/24/2017 7:36:29 PM PST by backwoods-engineer ( DJT won; we got Gorsuch and a bit of MAGA. Civil war before we get more?)
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To: Vendome

We want ‘em done for ever!


43 posted on 11/24/2017 7:37:01 PM PST by Savage Beast (Leftists hate TRUTH! TRUTH is the bete noire that haunts their paranoia!)
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To: TigerClaws

NeverTrumpers were willing to hand the judiciary to Hildabeast?

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Exactly! NeverTrumpers just another branding of the Uniparty.


44 posted on 11/24/2017 7:42:34 PM PST by Flick Lives (The FBI is a taxpayer funded Mafia organization)
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To: rdl6989

I would love for RBG to move on to what is next, but she apparently works out regularly and is hanging on for longer than I would have thought. That does trouble me.


45 posted on 11/24/2017 7:47:21 PM PST by SarahPalin2012
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To: TigerClaws

After seeing some of the totally baseless and patently politicized assertions of judicial power over national defense matters, matters constitutionally entrusted to the president with congress —� not the judiciary — —� I’m all for president Trump selecting some new and hopefully constitutionally- minded judges. And anyway it’s his job to nominate people to fill judicial vacancies.


46 posted on 11/24/2017 7:47:35 PM PST by faithhopecharity (“Politicians aren’t born, they’re excreted.” - Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: dontreadthis

Yeah, if Hillary was president, they wouldn’t be writing this.


47 posted on 11/24/2017 7:48:24 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: TigerClaws

I’m not seeing a problem here.


48 posted on 11/24/2017 7:50:56 PM PST by BAW (There is a Storm coming.)
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To: TigerClaws
"As a result, by sometime next year, 1 in 8 cases filed in federal court will be heard by a judge picked by Trump. Many of these judges will likely still be serving in 2050" Long may they live.
50 posted on 11/24/2017 7:54:10 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: TigerClaws
It's not a "plan," Bozo.

It's a done deal, thanks to Dingy Harry.

51 posted on 11/24/2017 8:06:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Never put a leftist on the court. NEVER.


52 posted on 11/24/2017 8:08:21 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: TigerClaws

>>President Trump will add twice as many lifetime members to the federal judiciary in the next 12 months (650) as Barack Obama named in eight years (325). American law will never be the same.

This is why the Globalists want to hand the Senate over to the Dems ASAP. Keep winning, President Trump!


53 posted on 11/24/2017 8:11:32 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Asking a pro athlete for political advice is like asking a cavalry horse for tactical advice.)
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To: TigerClaws
Due to GOP obstruction, “the number of [judicial] vacancies . . . on the table when [Trump] was sworn in was unprecedented,”

Way to go, GOP obstruction! I don't see what WaPo is crying about; this whole article is great news.

54 posted on 11/24/2017 8:12:57 PM PST by hsalaw
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To: TigerClaws
This will be Trump's legacy. He may have three more SCOTUS picks next year. Thomas and Kennedy through retirement. RBG is on her last leg.

By the end of next year we could have the Trump Court of the United States.

55 posted on 11/24/2017 8:16:14 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: dontreadthis
WaPo writes as if this is a bad thing

From a Liberal's perspective it's nightmarish. For those of us who love America, it would be a dream come true.

56 posted on 11/24/2017 8:19:28 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: BenLurkin
The lefties at the Compost are pretending not to know what FDRs insidious plan to pack scotus really was.

They're not pretending. They really don't know.

57 posted on 11/24/2017 8:20:45 PM PST by Albion Wilde (I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
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To: TigerClaws

If Hillary had won she would have the same number of ‘picks’ and the little sh*ts at the Washington Post would be brimming with praise.


58 posted on 11/24/2017 8:34:00 PM PST by GOPJ (https://www.reddit.com/r/StumpSheet/comments/6ec3z1/fake_hate_crimes_official/)
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To: TigerClaws

‘After years of an obstructionist White House which continued to nominate hacks instead of judges, the Senate is rolling through the smooth nomination process, even taking the unusual step of removing the ability of sore loser senators from blocking nominations without cause...’


59 posted on 11/24/2017 8:36:11 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: TigerClaws
The Garland-to-Gorsuch Supreme Court switch

The writer deserves to be beaten with a nail-studded baseball bat for this particular lie...

60 posted on 11/24/2017 8:56:51 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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