Democrats Are About to Lose the Federal Courts for a Lifetime

Nov 8, 2019
Jessica Mason Pieklo

If Democrats don’t take bold action and make the federal courts an electoral priority, we will lose them for a lifetime.

Republicans hit a new milestone in their campaign to capture the federal courts for a lifetime. President Trump has now appointed over 150 judges to the bench, including one-quarter of all judges on federal courts of appeals.

Let that number really sink in: One in four seats on federal courts of appeals is now held by a Trump appointee.

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