Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Trump has opportunity to flip the 9th Circuit, so why isn't he?

As mentioned many times before, Trump was presented with an opportunity to realign the federal judiciary for a generation given the large number of Court of Appeals and District Court vacancies when he took office.

Despite unprecedented Democrat obstruction which has strung out not only judicial but other nominees, Trump has moved a substantial number of nominees through the pipeline to confirmation.

I lamented earlier this month that Trump was slow to renominate nominees Democrats refused to hold over from the last Congress, but since that post, Trump has announced 51 nominees to be sent to Congress.

Carrie Severino, chief counsel and policy director to the Judicial Crisis Network, writes in National Review that Trump appears to be playing footsie with Democrats when it comes to the 9th Circuit, What Ever Happened to Those Ninth Circuit Nominees?

Last week the White House announced the re-nomination of 51 judicial nominees, including a dozen circuit court nominees.

During the first two years of his administration, President Trump gradually filled nearly all of the circuit court vacancies that he inherited, along with additional vacancies that arose those first two years.

Ms. Harris is running for President and will oppose any Trump nominee to the High Court.



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