update 11/6/18
Democrats could win the House on Tuesday. They may recapture the Senate and White House in 2020. But they’re losing the federal courts for the long term. https://t.co/lMsvDsKpLU
— POLITICO (@politico) November 6, 2018
update 10/23/18 another lie about judges
Trump lies that he's appointed a higher percentage of federal judges than any president but George Washington. From last month: pic.twitter.com/NueMXTMyXl
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 23, 2018
The greatest untold story of trump impact. Arguably more impact on culture than even scotus https://t.co/5PpG1PjtM2
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) October 14, 2018
Donald Trump has successfully appointed more federal appeals court judges so far in his presidency than Barack Obama and George W. Bush combined had appointed at the same point in theirs. https://t.co/yjIaUwI3Bs pic.twitter.com/Pqzax448eI
— Pew Research Fact Tank (@FactTank) August 10, 2018
The Senate confirmed two more Trump nominees as appeals court judges today. Here's the number of appeals court judges confirmed by Aug. 16 of each president's second year in office:
Trump: 26
Obama: 10
Bush: 13
Clinton: 13
Bush: 18
Reagan: 17
Carter: 11https://t.co/j7oUJHSF6S— John Gramlich (@johngramlich) August 16, 2018
With 26 circuit judges confirmed under Trump (with major assist from McConnell Grassley et al), one out of every *seven* appeals court judges was picked by Trump. Pretty remarkable.
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) August 16, 2018
A little sampling of Trump's confirmed circuit judges:
Andrew Oldham, who has a record of attacking voting rightshttps://t.co/q2Mhvj2dDT
Amy Barrett, who questioned Roe v Wadehttps://t.co/DJpsZi27Xm
L. Steven Grasz, rated "not qualified" to servehttps://t.co/Fq6EsAl3Tf
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) August 16, 2018
Sad! 