Trump is quietly moving at a furious pace to secure his 'single most important legacy'

[Swordsmyth]

When it comes to nominating judges to the federal bench, Trump is moving at a breakneck pace. And the number of nominees for vacant US attorney positions, a crucial area, is dwarfing that of the past administration this early on.
On the federal bench, virtually all the vacancies Trump has been rushing to fill are lifetime appointments.
"This will be the single most important legacy of the Trump administration," Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Business Insider. "They will quickly be able to put judges on circuit courts all over the country, district courts all over the country, that will, given their youth and conservatism, will have a significant impact on the shape and trajectory of American law for decades.
"I do think this deserves more attention given the consequence, the significance of what will eventually be a wholesale change among the federal judiciary," he continued.
While only three of Trump's nominees for the federal bench, aside from Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, have been confirmed by the Judiciary Committee to date, the sheer number of nominees he has sent to the committee — both for federal judgeships and US attorney slots — is staggering.
Through July 14, roughly a week shy of Trump's six-month anniversary in office, he had nominated 18 people for district judgeship vacancies, 14 for circuit courts and the Court of Federal Claims, and 23 for US attorney slots. During that same timeframe in President Barack Obama's first term, Obama had nominated just four district judges, five appeals court judges, and 13 US attorneys. In total, Trump nominated 55 people, and Obama just 22.
"What strikes me about the Trump administration's judicial-nomination process is how quickly they have moved," Coons said.

More at: http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-judges-attorneys-nominations-2017-7

[euphemia]

Indeed. This will be one of the most important things he does.

[helmuth_hubener]

This doesn't matter. Thinking Small.
Go big or do not go at all.
The leftists cheated: stacked the game
Poofed new districts in JC's reign,
The Gop said "dyuuuh" and with it went.
It's legal. It's a precedent.
The courts are thus left. Set in stone.
Forever such they shall be known.
Unless.... somebody wants to win
Doesn't think fighting back's a sin.
One thousand new districts. Bang. Done.
One hundred circuits. Boom. We've won.
Appoint Amish exclusively.
Then Right will win. Conclusively.

[Brian4Liberty]

Is Judge Napolitano advising on these nominations?

[helmuth_hubener]

Oh, and adding new supremes to sit
Would not hurt either. Not one bit.
Say, while we're at it: fight with fire!
Impeach AA hire Sotomayor.

[euphemia]

And I just want to make another point. With the exits of Spicer and probably Priebus, you have Trump doing the final flip off of the GOP establishment. He took those guys as part of a deal to stop pushback on his nomination.

Some of these people gave up cushy jobs to come work in the Administration. They might find themselves out in the cold.

[Zippyjuan]

Most nominees are to replace similar judges. From the OP article:


But there's a catch.

Of those 55 nominees, 45 are from — or nominated for jobs in — states Trump won outright in last fall's election. If you remove the positions based in Washington, DC, that number becomes 45 of 48, a remarkably high 94%. Just 64% of Obama's initial nominees hailed from states he carried in the 2008 presidential election.


The professor said the Trump administration's filling the vacancies by targeting what he termed the "low-hanging fruit" first may be "a very efficient way" to go about it.

But there's one problem.

"They're not being systematic in terms of priorities," he said. "So, for example, there are 52 emergency vacancies, and those should be the ones that get filled first, not just the ones that happen to have Republican home-state senators."