Wow. As Judiciary Committee was voting on some troubling nominees, @senatemajldr just...

[demmiblue]

Wow. As Judiciary Committee was voting on some troubling nominees, @senatemajldr just moved forward on EIGHT more Trump judicial picks.

Two refused to say #BrownvBoard was correctly decided. And then there's Sarah Pitlyk, whose record is disturbing in so many ways.

Be outraged.

Link to tweet

So depressing.

[Wounded Bear]

1. They've been fast-tracking RW ideologues since Jan '17...

[cbdo2007]

2. Is it unusual for there to be this many judicial picks under one presidency?

Seems like these things are non-stop, like how many freaking judges are there? Are these all life time appointments?

I'm just shocked this is never ending.

[leftieNanner]

3. You are entirely correct

Moscow Mitch stalled LOTS of Obama nominees for just this purpose. He has done almost nothing else for three years. They are speeding up the process, I think, because Mitch wants to fill every position before the 2020 election. Even if the GOP loses power, many of our priorities will potentially be stalled for the foreseeable future by these RW idealogues.

[cbdo2007]

6. Ah that makes sense...

Wonder if the Dems have a plan to reverse some of these under a circumstance where Trump is Impeached so some of his rulings would become void...obviously if they could tie him to working with another country in treasonous activity, it could be argued that these appointments were instructed by the other country and are dangerous to our country.

Before attacking...I know, I know, there's probably little they can do...just doing some open brainstorming here...

[leftieNanner]

8. There is one possible thing that may help us

There is a judicial code of conduct (not for SCOTUS, unfortunately) so if any of these toxic judges do anything unethical, they can be censured and/or removed from the bench.

[guillaumeb]

4. McConnell refused to confirm many of President Obama's picks,

and delayed many more to create these vacancies.

[Politicub]

13. No, this is not normal. Dems squandered their senate majority when they didn't

do what McConnell is doing.

It was a big mistake.

Trump is damaging, but he's temporary. These right wing judges will be around for the rest of my life.

[demmiblue]

5. UCLA Law Review: Trump's Dangerous Judicial Legacy

Introduction

As much attention has been focused on scrutinizing President Trump’s two appointments to the United States Supreme Court, a more pervasive and insidious effort by President Trump to remake the federal judiciary has gone relatively unchallenged.1 Our collective obsession with the nation’s highest court and its shifting ideological balance since the retirement of longtime moderate Justice Anthony Kennedy, while important, has allowed a less notable but no less important shift to occur in the judiciary as a result of Trump’s record-setting pace of appointments to the lower federal courts.2 Aside from their obvious politics, most of Trump’s judicial appointees share something else in common—they are almost all white and largely male.3 This is no mere coincidence. It is a seemingly deliberate attempt to undo decades of diversity progress on the federal judiciary made over the course of multiple, successive presidential administrations across both political parties.4

For all the handwringing over President Trump’s two appointees to the Supreme Court, the president has quietly appointed more judges to the federal appeals courts in his first two years in office than any other president in history.5 Given that so few cases will ever be heard by the Supreme Court, these courts often represent the highest level of appeal in our federal judicial system.6 In addition to being prolific, there is a striking pattern to Trump’s judicial appointees. He has broken with a decades-long presidential tradition of making the judiciary more demographically diverse than one’s political predecessor.7 Instead, Trump has appointed fewer minority judges to the federal bench than any president since Ronald Reagan and fewer women judges than any president since George H.W. Bush.8 For the first time in nearly three decades, the federal bench has actually become appreciably less diverse, even as the nation has continued to experience rapid growth in its demographic diversity.9 The truculence about America’s growing cultural pluralism that is reflected in Trump’s federal judicial appointments is resonant with a central theme of his now (in)famous campaign promise. Notwithstanding the facile appeal to patriotism, there is considerable proof that what Trump really aims to do is not “Make America Great Again” so much as “Make America White Again.”10 At least insofar as his efforts to remake the judiciary are concerned, this “whitewashing” has grave consequences for the judiciary itself and arguably for our democracy more broadly.11

Trump’s record-setting pace of federal judicial appointments have shifted the demography of the judiciary from one that was becoming increasingly more representative of the people it serves to one that is actively being made less representative of the American people. This Article first highlights this demographic shift in quantifiable terms. It then situates this judicial trend as a part of Trump’s larger political agenda and explores its consequences for the judiciary and for our ideals of democracy more broadly.

https://www.uclalawreview.org/trumps-dangerous-judicial-legacy/

[diva77]

11. +1; worthy of being an OP

[Hermit-The-Prog]

7. gotta be some way to stop Moscow Mitch

[maxrandb]

14. I keep saying that if the choice is allowing them to pack the courts

or shutting the entire fucking government down... I'm not sure I would not advocate shutting the whole fucking thing down.

[budkin]

9. The damage from the Trump presidency is going to last for decades...

November 8, 2016 really was one of the absolute worst days in American history. FUCK.

[diva77]

10. K&R for exposure

[a kennedy]

12. This is ALL the Senate has done for 3 yrs, appoint horrible and NOT qualified judges.