With more than 100 vacancies, Trump will reshape courts
The game Republicans played was not to approve judges while Obama was in office.
Donald Trump is set to inherit an uncommon number of vacancies in the federal courts in addition to the open Supreme Court seat, giving the president-elect a monumental opportunity to reshape the judiciary after taking office,” the Washington Post reports.
“The estimated 103 judicial vacancies that President Obama is expected to hand over to Trump in the Jan. 20 transition of power is nearly double the 54 openings Obama found eight years ago following George W. Bush’s presidency.”D
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KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 26th, 2016 at 09:50
This is only the tip of the iceberg of damage that will be done because protest voters stayed home or didn’t vote for the Democratic nominee.
And the damage will last for generations because of their ‘purist’ idiocy.
mea_mark December 26th, 2016 at 09:52
If only the dems had put up a candidate that wasn’t part of the oligarchical problem in America. Maybe the dems will get it right next time and not derp so hard.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 26th, 2016 at 09:57
Acting defensive and spouting platitudes doesn’t excuse the fact that that selfish purists are largely to blame for enabling a Trump presidency.
The damage is on their hands for decades to come.
mea_mark December 26th, 2016 at 10:00
No, it’s on the dems. They failed. They have been losing seats all across the country because they are heading the wrong direction. They need to wake up and change course.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 26th, 2016 at 10:12
Well the folks I’m talking about enabled the election of president Trump in their quest to change course. Congratulations!
Generations will have a different opinion after living through the results of selfish and ignorant idealism.
mea_mark December 26th, 2016 at 10:17
” Generations will have a different opinion after living through the results of selfish and ignorant idealism. ” — Like trying to rule with the oligarchy from the center and embracing the status quo that is causing disappointment?
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 26th, 2016 at 10:28
I was forgiving for the idealistic fools who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000 for they knew not what they were doing.
In this election however, we had that past knowledge and the danger was abundantly clear.
You can be defensive all you want, but anyone who did not do everything they could to stop Trump (by voting for the Democratic candidate) are complicit in all the damage that will be done.
It’s a shame that ignorant purist idealism will hurt so many millions of people.
mea_mark December 26th, 2016 at 10:30
Go ahead and keep blaming someone else and just see how far that gets you.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 26th, 2016 at 11:09
It’s really not about blame, it’s about reality, actions and consequences.
Reality: Our courts will be damaged for generations.
Actions: I did everything I could by promoting and voting for the Democratic candidate because it was the only way of stopping an unthinkable Trump presidency. Those who didn’t vote for the only logical candidate to stop him, have no right to complain.
Consequences: Despite knowing all the risks, selfish people who didn’t get their pony in the primaries threw a childish tantrum and enabled the election of Donald Trump.
So I suggest they live with their decision and don’t complain.
Otherwise I’ll keep throwing their bad judgement and foolish idealism in their faces.
mea_mark December 26th, 2016 at 12:13
The dems aren’t entitled to anyone’s votes, they must be earned. Until they get that through their thick head, they are going to have problems. They put up a bad candidate, they will lose.
arc99 December 26th, 2016 at 12:53
Hillary lost the EC. Someone loses the EC in every Presidential election since the creation of our republic. I do not think she was a bad candidate. Her popular vote margin indicates there are millions of others who agree with me. Whether or not she was a bad candidate is a matter of opinion. Whether or not she lost the EC is a matter of documented fact. Regardless of whether one thinks Hillary was a bad candidate, or if Bernie would have been a bad candidate, the question is how to move forward. For me, moving forward means we do not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
It would be foolish to dimiss Hillary as a “bad candidate” and ignore what she did right to secure a vote margin of almost 3 million.
Suzanne McFly December 26th, 2016 at 10:18
I agree on the fact that the dems have not ran on a strong message in the last few elections. They just seem to think the Americans understand without question that the democratic party supports the working class. Most do not understand that and they elected the crook who claimed he was for the working class, but will now rob them.
mea_mark December 26th, 2016 at 10:23
Democratic trade treaties have undermined the working class and made the corporations richer. Neoliberalism and globalization that works for corporations is not working for the working class. The dems need to get behind something that actually works.
Buford2k11 December 26th, 2016 at 13:15
oh mark, mark, mark….yep, in a way, ok several ways, but we are accepting that, and moving towards the answer…first things first…Oppose Trump…on every thing…Second…Oppose Paul Ryan and the GOP congress….Third….Oppose Mitch McConnell and the GOP Senate…and while we are doing that, we are building our bench out in the States….we have to oppose every single republican in every single district…they have to have our “consent” to govern…a minority of voters, is not real consent…King Trump, think about it…
mea_mark December 26th, 2016 at 09:51
The judiciary is going to become a swamp. It might become so bad that only a revolution will be able to fix it. This is not making America great, this is just derp.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 26th, 2016 at 09:58
There will be no revolution.
That stupid nonsense spouted by Susan Sarandon is only for fools.
Suzanne McFly December 26th, 2016 at 10:15
And this is the scariest part of this “win” by far.
Larry Schmitt December 26th, 2016 at 11:06
Because the effects last for generations, long after however long the trump administration lasts, even if he doesn’t complete one term. Essentially, judges are with us forever.
oldfart December 26th, 2016 at 11:12
The “long game” conservatives have been playing for decades may well have been ultimately, the establishment of a conservative court across this country. Their fix of the judicial system will effect many generations well after the white population ceases to be be the majority. It would also explain why they are also so focused on removing liberal administrations from our college campuses and dumbing down our schools.
Wake up millennials, they’re coming after you.
Obewon December 26th, 2016 at 11:19
Thankfully President Obama has appointed and confirmed 1/3 of all federal judges thanks to Senate Leaders (D-NV) Harry Reid, (D-NY) Charles Schumer and the Dem caucus.
When President Obama took office, the full D.C. Circuit had six judges appointed by Republican Presidents, three named by Democrats, and two vacancies. By the time of the Halbig decision, Obama had placed four judges on the D.C. court, which shifted its composition to seven Democratic appointees and four Republicans. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/obama-brief
labman57 December 26th, 2016 at 12:08
The only reason why so many vacancies exist is due to the unprecedented obstructionism of the Republicans in the US Senate during Obama’s terms in office.
And now they’re hypocritically working to undermine any efforts of the Democrat Senate minority to have a say in the judicial nomination process.
Gina Bousquet December 26th, 2016 at 16:27
Any doubt he’ll reshape life in the US, to some degree?
amersham1046 December 27th, 2016 at 15:24
Justice has just become very expensive —
how much justice can you afford
robert December 27th, 2016 at 15:46
No excuses going forward
NONE. sink or swim gop