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  • With Supreme Court seat filled, GOP looks to lower courts

    04/23/2017 12:47:28 PM PDT · by COBOL2Java · 19 replies
    WTOP News (Washington DC) ^ | April 23, 2017 8:17 am | AP
    WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans have put President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee on the bench, and they’re now in a position to fill dozens more federal judgeships — and reshape some of the nation’s highest courts. Democrats have few ways to stop them. The Republicans’ opportunity comes with the GOP in control of Congress and the White House, about 120 vacancies in federal district and appeals courts to be filled and after years of partisan fights over judicial nominations. Frustrated by Republican obstruction in 2013, then-majority Democrats changed Senate rules so judicial nominations for those trial and appeals courts are...