Breitbart: President Donald Trump has had as much impact on the third branch of government in two years as most presidents have in two full terms, and the new Senate opens the door for the second half of his first term to be even more significant than the first half.
The Senate in 2018 confirmed 67 federal judges to lifetime appointments: one Supreme Court justice, 18 judges to the U.S. courts of appeals, and 48 judges to the federal district courts (which is where trials are conducted).
Combined with the 2017 number, this is a phenomenal total of 85 new federal judges: two Supreme Court justices, 30 appellate judges, and 53 trial judges. The total of 30 for the circuit courts of appeals breaks the previous all-time two-year record of 23, marking a historic achievement by President Trump and Senate Republicans.
Many of the issues most important to voters turn on competing views of interpreting the Constitution or federal law, and thus depend on the judicial philosophy of the judges deciding court cases involving those issues.
Regarding immigration, the Supreme Court in Trump v. Hawaii reversed 5-4 the losses from liberal judges over Presidential Proclamation 9645 (the travel ban), after Justice Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation. Similar Supreme Court victories are likely to reverse adverse rulings on DACA and the asylum caravans as well, so long as the White House and congressional Republicans do not give up those fights.
Regarding religious liberty, lower-court losses on the constitutionality of public displays with religious imagery, invocations at public events, and rights of conscience for people of faith both under the Free Speech Clause and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment are widely expected to become Supreme Court victories.
Regarding the Second Amendment, where lower courts have routinely ignored the Supreme Court’s two blockbuster decisions – Heller (2008) and McDonald (2010) – at least a couple circuit courts of appeals now support the original public meaning of the right to bear arms, thanks to originalist judges appointed by President Trump. And with Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation, experts expect the Supreme Court may now have a majority that will vindicate other basic aspects of that right, such as the fact that it extends beyond the confines of a law-abiding citizen’s home. more
RIP RBG 2019.
We can only hope that the traitor McConnell doesn’t torpedo the “Ship of State.”
Our borders would be more secure if the traitor McConnell had invoked the “Reid” Option – but, alas, his loyalties are NOT with We, the People of the United States.
izlamo delenda est …
McConnell with get the nominees through but he will see this as an opportunity to exact a price for doing so.
He’ll want something else to back stab the president, the rat bastard.
Watch out for the Weekend at Bernie’s treatment for the Prog’s favorite Golden Girl.
Old post, still on topic.
If Ruth was smart enough to be a SCJ, she would have been smart enough to retire, let O’Baja name a successor.
But Noooo!
She had to wait and be a woman SCJ, replaced by a woman SCJ, appointed by a woman president.
Estrogen, it’s a hell of a drug.
In the second half of his first term, if President Trump does nothing more than keep appointing originalist judges, and veto’s stupid democrat sponsored laws, then I will be satisfied. However, a wall would be nice.