Im not a fan of either side packing the court but if the rules allow them to do it, then they are within their rights to do it. Just like republicans will do ot back when they get the power back.
Dont forget dems could of blocked all 3 of trumps nominees had it not bern for reid eliminating the filibuster on judical nominees. Whats happening now is predictable.
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More facts should stir much less, "well, both sides....." and much more aggressive representation in congress of the majority.
The SCOTUS used to protect the minority, and recently it is the congress doing that, the monied, white portion of it, anyway, in lockstep with the increasingly corporatist SCOTUS majority.
Reid only eliminated the 60 vote rule on judicial nominees below the SCOTUS level because republicans were blocking all votes on Obama's judicial nominees. Reid left the SCOTUS rules intact. There is no "both sides" in this argument. Reid actually waited much too long. McConnell used what Reid had done out of necessity, purely to give himself cover to relax the SCOTUS minimum vote requirement, continuing what he had been doing, preventing all Dem appointments to all courts. Reid left SCOTUS minimum vote intact out of consideration of history and cooperation.
Justice Ginsburg attracted a 95 to 3 senate vote in 1993. Trump's two appointees attracted the smallest confirmation votes in memory.
Trump has appointed 52 white males and one hispanic to appeals courts, the worst record since Nixon's. Obama appointed 27 percent blacks and
35 percent non-white in total, the approx. makeup of the US population demographic. 15 percent of Bush 43's appeals court nominations were black.
When your opposition departs from compromising to proceeding as if you did not even exist, you are left with no alternative than to appeal to voters to vote your party greater representation, as happened in the huge House gains in 2018.
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Claim: "The average age of my newly appointed circuit court judges is less than 50. They’re young, smart. That’s 10 years younger than President Obama’s nominees."
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According to
data compiled by FJC, only five presidents (Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and Lyndon B. Johnson) have had a judicial appointee confirmed with a majority ABA rating of “Not Qualified,” and none had as many as Trump’s five. Both Bush and LBJ appointed four judges the ABA rated “Not Qualified,” while Carter and Clinton both got three judges confirmed with the same rating.
As for the quantity of appointed judges, Trump again derisively thanked Obama for the large number of judicial vacancies he inherited when he came into office. But Trump’s gratitude is misplaced.
Trump, Nov 6: You know, it is true, when I first came to office — because of what I said before, that I’ve always heard how important it is the choice of judges and the number of judges. And in my first day, I said to one of our assistants, “How many judges do I have to pick? How many are there?” And I figured I’d hear none or one, maybe two. They said, “Sir, you have 142.” I said, “No, no, no, tell me truth. I want the truth.” (Laughter.) That was it. And I say: Thank you, President Obama, very much.
When Trump took office, there were
112 federal judicial vacancies. That’s a high number of vacancies, but
as we have written before, that was not the result of complacency by Obama, but rather opposition to Obama’s judicial nominations from Senate Republicans who
held a majority during the last two years of Obama’s presidency. Experts told us Senate Republicans confirmed far fewer judicial nominees in Obama’s last two years than had been confirmed in the last two years of previous presidents. As a result, in early January 2017, just before Trump took office, there were
59 federal court nominees pending. That’s why Trump inherited so many vacancies.
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