The Corner

Law & the Courts

One in Four, and Counting

An undoubted success of the strange-bedfellow Trump-McConnell alliance is the confirmation of judges at an extraordinary clip:

After three years in office, President Trump has remade the federal judiciary, ensuring a conservative tilt for decades and cementing his legacy no matter the outcome of November’s election.

Trump nominees make up 1 in 4 U.S. circuit court judges. Two of his picks sit on the Supreme Court. And this past week, as the House voted to impeach the president, the Republican-led Senate confirmed an additional 13 district court judges.

In total, Trump has installed 187 judges to the federal bench.
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