After 3.5 years:
Carter 239
Trump 200
Bush jr 190
Clinton 186
Obama 152
Number of black Trump-nominated federal judges: 0
Probably just a coincidence.
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Waiting for you to retract this. It's a lie.
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Trump has appointed several black federal judges. Your post is simply 100% untrue.
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You only want your Blacks and Hispanics, not any Blacks and Hispanics.
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They want them all returned.
I never heard of Estrada.
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There are no black judges that Trump has put on appellate courts (53 of his 200). But he has put blacks in overall federal judge roles.
I don't blame Chris for reading it that way: It's exactly how the media wanted it to be read when they put their headlines out with misleading intent.
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But, I suppose that is where the nation is going. Everything by the other side must be opposed no matter what. The Dems can't even approve police reform pushed by a black GOP Congressman...after all, he is off the Democrat Plantation...they need to re-enslave him before they will support his initiatives.
The nation is better served by a judiciary who satisfies bipartisan scrutiny.
McConnell and Trump have politicized the federal bench. Not a good thing going forward.
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Reid said the chamber “must evolve” beyond parliamentary roadblocks. “The American people believe the Senate is broken, and I believe the American people are right.”
After the vote, Obama told reporters at the White House that Republicans had turned nomination fights into a “reckless and relentless tool” to grind the gears of government to a halt and noted that “neither party has been blameless for these tactics.” However, he said, “today’s pattern of obstruction . . . just isn’t normal; it’s not what our founders envisioned.”
Notwithstanding the nuclear option, Obama nominated judges received overwhelming bipartisan support, proving that McConnell was using parliamentary tactics to stall the nomination process for so many highly qualified nominees.
Elections have consequences. The GOP have owned the Senate since 2014 and McConnell is stacking the federal bench (and even the Supreme Court) with nominees who barely get 50 votes.
If you want a politicized federal bench going forward, have at it. Cases will be decided less on the merits, and more about which judge or appellate panel hears the case.
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In the past, the nominees would have been voted in with near unanimity. But not with the present Democrat Party. Seriously, I'm surprised you would advertise this as a badge of honor. If you were really paying attention, you would not call any attention to the fact that the Democrats alone have made this a partisan issue.
The partisan votes that are happening now should be embarrassing to the Democrats.
SCOTUS is almost uniformly New England / DC. Would you support having 9 circuits, and have one SCOTUS appointment from each circuit, so that flyover country would have some representation at the Supreme Court level? Right now, the middle of the country, and the South, has no representation on the Court.
giving him a potential list to choose from for elevation to the appeals court if he has a second term.
Trump has nominated more people of color to district court seats, including Roderick Young, a Black U.S. Magistrate Judge scheduled to appear before the Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for a seat in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Pew Research says 10% of his nominees are non-white (which, frankly, seems a bit low).
Second highest rate of appointing women behind only Obama.
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never mind.