(There’s also one vacancy, because some Republican senators deem Trump’s choice for the seat insufficiently militant.) There are now 11 GOP nominees on the court and just five Democratic nominees. He appointed five of the court’s seventeen active judges, who immediately allied with the court’s existing far-right bloc, which includes extremists like Judges Jerry Smith and Edith Jones (appointed by Ronald Reagan) and Jennifer Walker Elrod (appointed by George W.

Senate Republicans would not let President Barack Obama fill several seats on the court, allowing Trump to reshape it after taking office. The 5 th Circuit’s descent into lawlessness did not happen by accident. A traditionally conservative bench, the court has been newly reshaped by Trump-and quickly got to work translating right-wing priorities into legal doctrine that will govern generations. But for a glimpse of where the judiciary is heading if Trump wins a second term, Americans can look to the 5 th U.S. These jurists are leading a conservative revolution that will upend decades of precedent and enshrine reactionary policies into the law. The president has appointed 133 district court judges, 50 appeals court judges, and two Supreme Court justices-meaning about one-fifth of the nation’s federal trial judges, and one-fourth of its federal appellate judges, are Trump appointees. With the help of Senate Republicans, Donald Trump spent the first three years of his presidency remaking the federal judiciary in his own image. SCOTUS Had No Legal Reason to Block Biden’s Vaccine Rules. Why Are Two People on Death Row Asking to Be Executed by a Firing Squad? The Even Bigger Problem With Neil Gorsuch’s Decision Not to Wear a Mask How Two Republican Judges Saved Their States From Plunging Into A Democratic Crisis

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