Trump's conservative judges begin takeover of federal appeals courts

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One of President Donald Trump's biggest achievements since entering the White House – making the federal courts more conservative (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/19/donald-trumps-judges-making-courts-more-conservative-slowly/2005281002/) – crossed a major threshold Tuesday.For the first time, he turned a federal appeals court previously dominated by Democratic presidents' nominees into one with a majority of Republican presidents' choices (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/06/trumps-judges-ruling-politics-prayer-executions-race/576848002/).
Senate confirmation of Paul Matey to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, with jurisdiction over Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, gave Trump and his GOP predecessors in the White House a 7-6 majority there. The Senate vote was 54-45, largely along party lines.
Matey, 48, a former top counsel to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, became Trump's 35th appeals court nominee to reach the bench with seven more pending, continuing a record pace. The Senate also has confirmed 53 of Trump's picks for federal district courts, with another 54 nominees pending.


In addition to the Third Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, with jurisdiction over Florida, Georgia and Alabama, offers conservatives hope. It has gone from having a solid majority of judges named by Democrats to a 6-6 tie.
Six other appeals courts have a majority of Democratic presidents' nominees (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/31/obama-judges-democrat-republican-senate/3286337/); four have a majority of Republican presidents' nominees.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-apos-conservative-judges-begin-190131514.html

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Another of President Trump's nominees to the San Francisco-based 9th Circuit Court of Appeals (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-condemns-disgraceful-9th-circuit-dubbing-it-rubber-stamp-for-his-foes) cleared a key procedural hurdle in the Senate on Monday, as the White House continues its push to transform the key left-leaning appellate court that the president repeatedly has derided as hopelessly biased and "disgraceful." (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-condemns-disgraceful-9th-circuit-dubbing-it-rubber-stamp-for-his-foes)
By a 77-20 vote, the Senate invoked cloture to end debate on Trump's nomination of Arizona-based Magistrate Judge Bridget Bade, a former clerk to conservative 5th Circuit Judge Edith Jones. Bade is slated to replace Bill Clinton-nominated Judge Barry Silverman, who has been on senior status since late 2016 -- effectively judicial semi-retirement.
Bade was one of 51 judicial nominees (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-announces-51-judicial-picks-including-two-for-liberal-ninth-circuit) the White House renominated earlier this year after the Senate failed to take action on them during the previous congressional session. Still waiting in the wings were Trump's other conservative 9th Circuit nominees: Daniel P. Collins, a former clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia; Daniel A. Bress, also a former Scalia clerk; and former George W. Bush administration official Kenneth Lee. All are currently in private practice.
Monday's vote all but assures Bade's confirmation this week after she was cleared out of the Judiciary Committee by a 17-5 bipartisan vote (https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/02.07.2019%20Results%20of%20Executive%20Business%2 0Meeting.pdf) in February.

More at: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-picked-ninth-circuit-judge-clears-last-hurdle-to-confirmation-with-more-in-the-pipeline

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Feinstein fumes as Trump moves ahead on Ninth Circuit nominee without even consulting her. (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/feinstein-fumes-as-trump-administration-pushes-forward-with-9th-circuit-nominees-without-consulting-her)

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https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1113293676485255168

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President Trump hit another milestone in his efforts to reshape the federal judiciary, with the Senate clearing his 100th judicial nominee Thursday.
The president and Republican-controlled Senate have made judicial nominations a top priority, and the confirmation of Rodolfo Ruiz to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida brought the number of Trump's judicial appointments into triple digits.
In addition to confirming Ruiz, the Senate is also set to clear two more nominees to federal district courts in Puerto Rico and Pennsylvania. If those two nominations win approval, Trump will have tapped 102 judges to the federal bench.

Trump’s judicial appointments include two Supreme Court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, 37 federal appeals court judges, and 61 federal district court judges.
In anticipation of the milestone, the president lauded the work of the Senate in confirming his judicial nominees, telling attendees of a dinner for the National Day of Prayer on Wednesday that “we’re breaking records.”


More than three dozen judicial nominees are still awaiting votes on the Senate floor, including two of the president’s picks (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate-judiciary-committee-advances-two-trump-9th-circuit-nominees) for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The San Francisco-based court is often the target of Trump’s frustration, as it has ruled against a number of the administration’s policies, and is considered the country’s most liberal appeals court.
But if the Senate approves Trump’s two nominees to the 9th Circuit, it would bring the court closer to parity.
Last month, Trump flipped (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/trump-flips-federal-appeals-court-with-bridgegate-attorney) his first appeals court, the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which now has a majority of Republican-appointed judges.

More at: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/senate-confirms-trumps-100th-judicial-nominee

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Who would have thought that a NY Democrat turned Republican would whip up abortion leaning, CFR member SCOTUS apponitees into carriers of conservative flags. Impressive bold leadership.

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Who would have thought that a NY Democrat turned Republican would whip up abortion leaning, CFR member SCOTUS apponitees into carriers of conservative flags. Impressive bold leadership.
Gorsuch is the best justice on the court and is nearly perfectly aligned with our beliefs, Kavanaugh is not as good but he is still a distinct improvement over Kennedy and there is no way that any Demoncrat president would have picked judges that were anywhere near as good.

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While most of Washington was focused on a House hearing to hold Attorney General William Barr (https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/william-barr) in contempt of Congress, Senate Republicans on Wednesday confirmed another one of President Donald Trump (https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump)’s picks for a lifetime court seat ― and once again broke from precedent to get it done.
The Senate voted 54-42 (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00099) to confirm Joseph Bianco to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York. Every Republican voted for him. All but two Democrats ― Sens. Doug Jones (Ala.) and Joe Manchin (W.Va.) ― opposed him. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Kirsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) did not vote.


Bianco’s confirmation marks the third time in history that the Senate has confirmed a judicial nominee over the objections of both of a nominee’s home-state senators. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both New York Democrats, didn’t turn in their so-called “blue slips” for Bianco, which are literally blue pieces of paper that signal a senator is ready to move forward with a nominee from his or her home state.

He’s also Trump’s 38th confirmed circuit court judge (https://news.yahoo.com/5cd30f57e4b07ce6ef798268). That’s more circuit judges than any president has gotten by this point in a first term, and means that one in every six seats on the nation’s circuit courts is now filled by a Trump nominee.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/mitch-mcconnell-trump-judges-senate-precedent-192548681.html

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While most of Washington was focused on a House hearing to hold Attorney General William Barr (https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/william-barr) in contempt of Congress, Senate Republicans on Wednesday confirmed another one of President Donald Trump (https://www.huffpost.com/news/topic/donald-trump)’s picks for a lifetime court seat ― and once again broke from precedent to get it done.
The Senate voted 54-42 (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00099) to confirm Joseph Bianco to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York. Every Republican voted for him. All but two Democrats ― Sens. Doug Jones (Ala.) and Joe Manchin (W.Va.) ― opposed him. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Kirsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) did not vote.


Bianco’s confirmation marks the third time in history that the Senate has confirmed a judicial nominee over the objections of both of a nominee’s home-state senators. Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both New York Democrats, didn’t turn in their so-called “blue slips” for Bianco, which are literally blue pieces of paper that signal a senator is ready to move forward with a nominee from his or her home state.

He’s also Trump’s 38th confirmed circuit court judge (https://news.yahoo.com/5cd30f57e4b07ce6ef798268). That’s more circuit judges than any president has gotten by this point in a first term, and means that one in every six seats on the nation’s circuit courts is now filled by a Trump nominee.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/mitch-mcconnell-trump-judges-senate-precedent-192548681.html

President Trump, who already has had a mammoth impact on America’s judicial system by appointing over 100 judges and flipping the Pennsylvania-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals to majority Republican appointees, is posed to flip another Circuit Court of Appeals: The Second Circuit. There are 13 Circuit Courts of Appeals in the U.S.

As Bloomberg Law (https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trump-closer-to-flipping-n-y-based-appeals-court?utm_source=twitter&campaign=6770865A-71A4-11E9-A04C-D51B50017A06&utm_medium=lawdesk) reports, on Wednesday the Senate confirmed Joseph Bianco to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Another judge, Michael Park, is expected to be confirmed later this week. Bloomberg noted, “When Trump makes additional appointments for vacancies that will be left by two judges who recently announced their retirements, Dennis Jacobs and Christopher Droney, the 13-member court will be majority Republican-appointed.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer supported Bianco’s confirmation to the district court in 2005, asserting, “I am proud to support someone as outstandingly qualified and well respected as Mr. Bianco,” but he opposes Bianco’s promotion now that he could change the balance on the Second Circuit.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in Connecticut, New York, and Vermont.

More at: https://www.dailywire.com/news/46961/terrific-trump-trump-about-flip-another-appeals-hank-berrien

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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) voted against confirming a conservative justice (https://www.conservativereview.com/news/romney-casts-lone-gop-vote-trump-judicial-pick-disparaging-comment-obama/) to the federal bench earlier today because the man had sharply criticized former President Barack Hussein Obama in 2011.
Michael J. Truncale was ultimately confirmed as the United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Texas by a 49-46 margin (https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=1&vote=00108), but no thanks to Romney who was the lone GOP defector joining with the Democrats to vote against Trump’s judicial pick.
Truncale had called Obama an “un-American imposter” in 2011, something considered verboten to a man of Romney’s establishment prestige.


Romney did not seem to care about Truncale’s consistent record of constitutional fidelity, but was instead more concerned with grandstanding against the President. In his typically self-serving manner, Romney rushed to the fake news (https://www.politico.com/story/2019/05/14/romney-truncale-1321299) shortly after making his vote to virtue signal to the opposition media.
“He made particularly disparaging comments about President Obama. And as the Republican nominee for president, I just couldn’t subscribe to that in a federal judge,” Romney said to Politico. “This was not a matter of qualifications or politics; this was something specifically to that issue as a former nominee of our party.”

Perhaps if Romney had shown as much gumption as Truncale did when running against Obama in 2012, he wouldn’t have lost in such embarrassing fashion and doomed the U.S. to four more years of socialism and racial division.

More at: https://bigleaguepolitics.com/mitt-romney-votes-against-trumps-judicial-nominee-because-he-criticized-obama/

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Another Trump judicial nominee confirmed to the Ninth Circuit (https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/may/15/kenneth-lee-trump-judicial-nominee-confirmed-9th-c/)

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https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1130982145105846273

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President Trump has successfully appointed six judges to the Ninth Circuit (https://californiaglobe.com/fr/president-trump-lands-sixth-judge-on-ninth-circuit-court-of-appeals/)

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Another vacancy opens on the Ninth Circuit (https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jun/12/patrick-bumatay-showdown-looms-9th-circuit-court-v/)

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The longest-serving federal district judge in modern history, Manuel Real, has died at age 95.
Real, a U.S. district judge for the Central District of California for 50 years, died on Wednesday, court officials reported Friday. Appointed in 1966 by President Lyndon Johnson, Real was known for his colorful antics in court and was frequently reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. “I am sad beyond words at the death of our beloved friend, colleague, mentor and leader,” said Central District of California Chief Judge Virginia Phillips. “Judge Real has been the heart and soul of our district since it was formed in 1966, and his passing leaves an unfillable void for us, his family, the legal world and the larger community. His legacy of public service is an inspiration beyond compare.”
Real was a 1951 graduate of Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He had served in the U.S. Navy Reserve during World War II from 1943 to 1945. After law school, he was a federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of California, later serving as U.S. attorney for that district from 1964 to 1966. When he was nominated to be a federal judge, the Central District of California had just been created.
In 1970, Real ordered the desegregation of the Pasadena Unified School District.
Real was a member of the Judicial Conference of the United States from 1981 to 1984, and served as chief judge of the Central District of California from 1982 to 1993. Real, however, developed a reputation for being frequently overturned at the Ninth Circuit. The string of reversals really took hold after Real notoriously feuded with police misconduct litigator Stephen Yagman, whom he fined $250,000 for courtroom behavior during a contentious 1984 defamation trial. Yagman appealed, and the Ninth Circuit reversed Real and ordered another judge to consider the sanction issue. “The fragile appearance of justice has taken a beating,” Ninth Circuit Judge J. Blaine Anderson wrote in In re Yagman. “It is time to conclude the matter as quickly and as painlessly as possible.”
Real though declined to let go of Yagman’s case, holding onto it while the outcome of another appeal involving a similar issue was pending. In the other case, the Ninth Circuit again ordered Real removed after he twice refused to follow the court’s instruction to dismiss it. After the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Real’s personal petition for certiorari, he finally let go of both cases. “I felt very strongly about those cases,” Real told The Recorder in a 1999 judicial profile. “They can sit back and look for something I did wrong and make their calls. That’s their job,” he said of the circuit court. “But I’m in the courtroom and I call them like I see them.”
In 2003, Yagman filed a complaint against Real for allegedly taking over a bankruptcy case involving a woman whose loan fraud case the judge was overseeing. Former Ninth Circuit Chief Judge Mary Schroeder initially dismissed the complaint against Real, but later appointed a committee to investigate. By that time, Congress had begun considering whether to initiate impeachment proceedings against Real, who denied wrongdoing. Real said Yagman had a “personal vendetta” against him. The Judicial Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ultimately issued a public reprimand of Real.
Among Real’s orders reversed by the Ninth Circuit were three decisions in a long-running antitrust class action against the publishers of the Barbri bar review course that led to his removal in a related case in 2016.
Real took senior status on Nov. 4.

https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/06/28/manuel-real-long-serving-and-frequently-reversed-district-judge-dies-at-95/

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President Donald Trump is on track to get another appointment to the largest federal appeals court.
Judge Jay Bybee of the San Francisco-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit plans to take senior status at the end of the year, the court confirmed on Monday.
Senior status is a type of semi-retirement which allows judges to keep working but relinquish their active seats.

Trump also will nominate a replacement for Judge Carlos Bea, who also plans to take senior status.

More at: https://biglawbusiness.com/trump-to-get-another-9th-cir-appointment-jay-bybee-seat-opening

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Trump is on course to having filled 30% of the Judiciary all by himself (https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/american-restoration-30-of-judges-will-be-trump-picks)

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President Trump’s nomination of Washington, D.C., attorney Daniel Bress to the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday on a party-line vote, giving Trump seven appointees to a court he has regularly denounced.
On the losing side of the 53-45 vote were California’s Democratic senators, Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, who noted that the seat had been held by a Californian — Alex Kozinski, who retired last December after allegations of sexual misconduct by at least 15 female staffers — and would ordinarily be filled by a Californian. Bress, 40, was born in Hollister and grew up in Gilroy but has practiced law in Washington since 2008, mainly representing businesses.
“Bress is not a part of California’s legal community,” Feinstein and Harris said in a statement. Both members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, they criticized Republican leaders for discarding the “blue slip” tradition that committee chairmen from both parties had previously used to block confirmation hearings on judicial nominees if either home-state senator objected.
Another opponent, Kristine Lucius of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, said Bress was part of a strategy by Trump and Senate Republicans “to mold the Ninth Circuit into a panel of young conservative ideologues.”
His defenders said Bress has California connections — he has been a member of the State Bar since 2008 — and stellar credentials. He graduated with honors from both Harvard University and the University of Virginia law school, was a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, and has won several professional awards.


With Bress’ confirmation, the court will have 16 judges appointed by Democratic presidents, 12 by Republicans and one vacancy. Judges Carlos Bea and Jay Bybee, both Republican appointees with conservative records, have announced plans to transfer to senior status with reduced caseloads — Bea when his successor is confirmed, Bybee by the end of the year — creating two more vacancies for Trump to fill.
Although Democratic appointees will remain in the majority, “there will be increasing numbers of three-judge panels that will have two Republican appointees,” observed Carl Tobias, a University of Richmond law professor who tracks judicial nominations. He said the likelihood of a conservative majority would also increase on the 11-judge panels the court assembles for contentious cases in which a majority of the full court votes to reconsider the initial ruling.

More at: https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Senate-confirms-Trump-s-appointment-to-Ninth-14083876.php

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When Donald Trump took office in January 2017, there were more than a hundred judicial court vacancies waiting for him to fill. With Senate confirmation of Daniel Bress to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals last week, thanks to retirements since then, the president has filled 127 vacancies.
And the impact of his “originalist” appointments is now beginning to be felt.
Although most attention has been paid to the confirmation battles over Supreme Court nominees Neal Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, it’s the appeals courts which do the heavy lifting — or as Caleb Parker of Fox News put it, these are the “big leagues” of the judiciary system. That’s because, of the 7,000 cases sent to the Supreme Court for judicial review every year, it accepts only around one percent of them. This leaves the decisions made at the appeals level in place.

The numbers tell part of the story. So far Trump’s appointees account for some 14 percent of the federal judiciary and more than 22 percent of the judges on the nation’s courts of appeal. If Trump is reelected there is every likelihood that he will be able to nominate close to 40 percent of the country’s federal judges. As The Nation magazine recently lamented, “Trump’s court [nominees] will remain his legacy.”
In March Trump “flipped” the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, achieving a majority of judges appointed by Republican presidents instead of Democrats. He has strengthened Republican-president-nominated majorities in the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Courts of Appeal. With Senate confirmation of Bress last week, he has narrowed the Democrat-president-nominated majority in the Ninth to 16, with 12 Republican-president-nominated ones.
The notoriously liberal Ninth Circuit was the court of choice by those seeking to implement a liberal agenda they couldn't accomplish otherwise. Rush Limbaugh once called it the “9th Circus,” while former NRATV host Dan Bongino referred to it as the “nutty Ninth.” Trump called it “a complete and utter disaster.”
But those days are over. Thanks to Trump, with help from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (and Democrats who eliminated the 60-vote threshold for overcoming a filibuster on nearly all judicial nominations), judges such as Bress are balancing courts across the land, favoring “original intent” over “living” interpretations of the Constitution.
Said McConnell of Bress: “[He] comes with strong credentials: the academic pedigree [a BA degree from Harvard College and JD degree from the University of Virginia School of Law], the legal experience [he clerked for Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia] and, most importantly, a demonstrated commitment to the rule of law.”
The change in the Ninth Circuit is remarkable, yet predictable. Last week the court ruled in favor of the Trump administration in a case concerning the withholding of federal funds from “sanctuary cities.” A three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the Justice Department could deny grants to cities and states that have “sanctuary” policies in place and prohibit local law-enforcement cooperation with ICE officials. Trump had issued an executive order immediately following his inauguration cutting off federal funds to sanctuary cities, but its implementation had been stalled until last Friday’s favorable decision by the Ninth Circuit.
More telling was the Ninth’s decision a day earlier supporting the Trump administration’s change in Title X family planning rules that prevent grant recipients from using federal funds to promote abortion. The case came to the Ninth by appeal from 20 states, and Planned Parenthood attempting to block its implementation.

More at: https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/32863-trump-s-court-nominees-beginning-to-make-a-difference

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A long article which looks at how the numbers show Trump’s impact on the judiciary thus far is unlike anything we have seen with any President to date. (https://empiricalscotus.com/2019/09/25/a-whole-new-ballgame/) He is getting more conservative judges, and putting them on faster than anyone to date.

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As Democrats prepare for Impeachment, Senate GOP tees up more Judicial confirmations. (https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/25/judicial-confirmations-impeachment/)
Another Trump Ninth Circuit Nominee takes a step toward confirmation. (https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/09/25/another-trump-ninth-circuit-nominee-takes-step-toward-confirmation/)

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This is one area where MAGA does not get sufficient credit from purist conservatives, GOA/NRA folks etc. for showing bold leadership in conservative appointments of all sorts from Judges to cabinet positions (Bolton, Pompeo, Kushner just to name a few of the conservatives).




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On 2nd Amendment:

Before the Election




https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/160810170554-trump-quote-tweleve-second-amendment-super-169.jpg (https://www.cnn.com/2016/08/10/opinions/trump-second-amendment-remark-cupp/index.html)




https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-the-second-amendment-to-our-constitution-is-clear-the-right-of-the-people-to-keep-and-donald-trump-130-4-0468.jpg (https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1300468)





After the Election



Federal court rules state firearm laws invalid (http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?527483-Federal-court-rules-state-firearm-laws-invalid&)






Trump nominates Indian American to replace Kavanaugh

Northwest Asian Weekly

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Neomi Rao

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is nominating administration official Neomi Rao to fill the appeals court seat previously held by Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Trump’s announcement came on Nov. 13 during the White House’s celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of light. Rao, who is Indian American, was present at the event.
Trump said he was nominating Rao for the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit — sometimes referred to as the nation’s second-highest court. Rao currently serves as the administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), which is part of the Office of Management and Budget.


Un-Related

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?539559-India%92s-prime-minister-accused-of-%93interfering%94-in-the-next-US-presidential-election&p=6865340&viewfull=1#post6865340

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Trump poised to flip Eleventh Circuit Conservative (https://abovethelaw.com/2019/09/trump-poised-to-flip-eleventh-circuit/)

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President Trump announces a slew of new judge nominations. (https://twitter.com/Article3Project/status/1192128999172038656?s=19)
Trump celebrates confirming 150 Federal judges, although the celebration is a bit late as they are actually up to 159 between the scheduling of it and now. (https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-federal-judicial-confirmation-milestones/) And it is scheduled to be 182 in the next two months.

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Trump has appointed 25% of all Circuit Court judges (https://dailycaller.com/2019/11/08/donald-trump-circuit-court-judges/)

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Steven Menashi's Confirmation Flips Second Circuit to GOP-Appointed Majority (https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/11/14/steven-menashis-confirmation-flips-second-circuit-to-gop-appointed-majority/?slreturn=20191014160138)

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With Lagoa Confirmed to 11th Circuit, Trump Flips a Third Appeals Court to GOP Majority (https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2019/11/20/with-lagoa-confirmed-to-11th-circuit-trump-flips-a-third-appeals-court-to-gop-majority/)

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Trump confirms another judge to a seat on the influential 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2019-12-10/san-diego-federal-prosecutor-confirmed-as-9th-circuit-judge)

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Two More Conservative Judges Appointed to Ninth Circuit Ends Its Liberal Domination (https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/34406-two-more-conservative-judges-appointed-to-ninth-circuit-ends-its-liberal-domination)

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Senate confirms Brasher to Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals (https://www.wsfa.com/2020/02/11/senate-confirms-brasher-eleventh-circuit-court-appeals/)

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This was Trump's 4d castle.