I think we've seen the near future today.

[Jakes Progress]

A trump judge just sided with trump in letting him trash the CFPB. The orange one has been getting dozens of baby judges confirmed. These young conservatives will sit for years. Every time good legislation is passed, some asshat like the Texas AG will take it to court, and trump's judges will kill it.

We must take over the House and Senate in 2018 to stop the rising ooze of trump packing the courts with backward judges. The current congress will confirm any piece of refuse that donald nominates. It will take years to clear America's courtrooms of this year's damage.

[JHB]

1. Time to bone up on the details of judcial impeachment...

...and to be prepared to act on impeachment when these Trump/Pence judge termites do things that give grounds for it. And don't doubt most of them will.

[BzaDem]

2. Removal requires 67 votes in the Senate. n/t

[Vinca]

6. Then we have to get 67 fucking seats.

[CrispyQ]

8. The democrats will not do anything as distasteful as impeach judges.

It's not going to happen. If they ever gain any kind of influence again, they will play nice & look forward. It's what they've done for the past four decades. It's one of the reasons the GOP keeps pushing the boundaries, cuz they know there is no one who will push back. Yes there will be a few who speak out, & even put forth legislation, but the party will not work together to take out the trash. It would be divisive. Besides, when they go low, we go high. Yes, I am angry with the democratic party. If they had been a true opposition party for the last four decades, maybe we wouldn't be in this mess.

[Vinca]

9. I agree with you a million percent.

Dems have a history of trying not to step on toesies or offend anyone in the slightest way. And this is where it's gotten us.

[CrispyQ]

10. A lot of people don't want to admit that the dems had any responsibility in this clusterfuck.

If you suggest they could have done more you're called a purist. That said, I hope to hell every dem I know gets out & votes in 2018. I'm sensing outrage fatigue in some corners.

[CousinIT]

3. SHitler is allowing the Heritage Foundation to pick the judges.

Trump isn't doing anything. Federalist Soc and Heritage Fdn picks them, GOP confirms them no matter who they are or what their "qualifications" or record.

[Kilgore]

4. Trump Is Rapidly Reshaping the Judiciary. Heres How.

WASHINGTON — In the weeks before Donald J. Trump took office, lawyers joining his administration gathered at a law firm near the Capitol, where Donald F. McGahn II, the soon-to-be White House counsel, filled a white board with a secret battle plan to fill the federal appeals courts with young and deeply conservative judges.

Mr. McGahn, instructed by Mr. Trump to maximize the opportunity to reshape the judiciary, mapped out potential nominees and a strategy, according to two people familiar with the effort: Start by filling vacancies on appeals courts with multiple openings and where Democratic senators up for re-election next year in states won by Mr. Trump — like Indiana, Michigan and Pennsylvania — could be pressured not to block his nominees. And to speed them through confirmation, avoid clogging the Senate with too many nominees for the district courts, where legal philosophy is less crucial.

Nearly a year later, that plan is coming to fruition. Mr. Trump has already appointed eight appellate judges, the most this early in a presidency since Richard M. Nixon, and on Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted along party lines to send a ninth appellate nominee — Mr. Trump’s deputy White House counsel, Gregory Katsas — to the floor.

Republicans are systematically filling appellate seats they held open during President Barack Obama’s final two years in office with a particularly conservative group of judges with life tenure. Democrats — who in late 2013 abolished the ability of 41 lawmakers to block such nominees with a filibuster, then quickly lost control of the Senate — have scant power to stop them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/11/us/politics/trump-judiciary-appeals-courts-conservatives.html

[2naSalit]

5. K&R

[Demsrule86]

7. That is it...and that is why Susan Sarandan, Jill Stein and Nina Turner are dead to me forever...

Those who did not support the only GE candidate who could stop Trump in 16...Hillary Clinton...literally have blood on their hands and have set back the progressive movement a decade at least. And they are still at it ...whining about Democrats when what we need to do is concentrate on beating Republicans...rather than attack Democrats...perhaps they should turn their attention to the GOP pigs...don't mean to insult pigs.

[Blue_Tires]

14. +1000

[beaglelover]

11. True. Out future is full of suckage. "But her emails........".

[0rganism]

12. if we take congress in 2018, it will be in spite of the dominant power structure

early victories in VA and OK have given them warnings.
the application of #metoo to the AL senate race has given them means.

Democrats will need to deploy an army of untainted impeccably-qualified female candidates wearing bullet proof vests to have a real shot at doing this.

2018 will NOT be a cakewalk.

[Jakes Progress]

13. They will go all out for the little brains.

As the 2018 election draws nigh, they will trot out the shiny objects that distract the stupid people who always vote with their reptile brains. "Look! Gay people over there. Oh! some scary dark people here. My my! Foreigners all over our country and the Democrats will take your precious (guns)"

It works for them every time.

[Horse with no Name]

15. This is why they refused to seat Obamas judges

Game over.

[Jakes Progress]

16. Yep.

And why we need to get control of congress and stop this takeover of the judicial branch of government. The stole the legislative branch through gerrymandering. The American 1% and russia bought the executive branch.

[Willie Pep]

17. This makes me so angry.

I told people who wanted to sit out the election or vote for Trump because they had an irrational hatred for Clinton that the judiciary was at stake and that this was not the election to be a purity pony. Now I hope they are happy.

We really need to improve civics education in this country because too many Americans don't understand the massive importance of the judicial branch. I guess it is too boring for people, better to focus on whether or not Hillary is a secret cyborg (I actually saw people argue that last year).