Trump Reaches 150 Lifetime Judicial Appointments: 'Decades of Progress At Stake'

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'Decades of Progress Are at Stake' as Trump Reaches 150 Lifetime Judicial Appointments & Right-Wing Court Takeover Accelerates. Trump's dangerous takeover of our courts will last a generation. Common Dreams, Sept. 12, 2019.

The Republican-controlled Senate quietly confirmed four more of President Donald Trump's lifetime federal judicial nominees on Wednesday, bringing the total number of conservative judges successfully appointed by the administration to over 150. It is a milestone that, according to rights groups, marks the extent to which Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have flooded the nation's courts with disproportionately young and unqualified right-wing judges who could reshape the judiciary for decades to come.

"Trump's dangerous takeover of our courts will last a generation. All who care about our civil rights being protected must speak out and demand better." —Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

"Every network should be covering this," tweeted the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. "Trump's dangerous takeover of our courts will last a generation. All who care about our civil rights being protected must speak out and demand better." Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reacted gleefully on Wednesday to the president's achievement, calling the appointment of over 150 federal judges "historic." "These conservative judicial appointments will impact our nation for years to come," said Graham.



- - President Donald Trump, accompanied by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), speaks to reporters before he attends the Republican Senate Caucus luncheon on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Tues. March 26, 2019.--

Bloomberg Law reported Wednesday that 19 of Trump's lifetime judicial nominees are awaiting votes and more judges are making their way through the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Many have disturbing civil rights records," Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference, said of the judges the Senate has confirmed thus far. "Dozens wouldn't affirm Brown v. Board. They're overwhelmingly white and male. Decades of progress are at stake. We must keep fighting."

While the Senate's latest torrent of votes on Trump judges drew relatively little coverage from the national media, more than 150 people gathered inside the Senate building on Wednesday to condemn the president's court takeover. The demonstration largely focused on Steven Menashi, Trump's nominee for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Menashi's confirmation hearing on Wednesdasy, which came just two days after his name was submitted to the Senate, was repeatedly interrupted by loud shouts from the Senate hallways.

HuffPost reported Tuesday that Menashi, currently a White House legal aide, is one of Trump's "most controversial judicial nominees to date... with a long record of opposing and undermining equality for communities of color, women, and LGBTQ people.". - More...

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/12/decades-progress-are-stake-trump-reaches-150-lifetime-judicial-appointments-and

Jennifer Bendery
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Protesters just erupted into loud shouting: "Title IX is on the line! Title IX is on the line!"
They can definitely hear this in the hearing.

[Ilsa]

1. Packing the courts is what trump will ultimately be known for,

as it is his only "accomplishment."

[Raven123]

2. I suspect this is why McConnell won't cross Trump.

[Zaphod42]

3. This issue is more important than most people realize...

This court packing effort by the gop has been well planned. They know that their (electoral) control of the WH and the Senate, in future, is iffy, at best. Agent Orange is their wet dream come true...his constant (infantile) blabber and blather dominates the news cycle, giving them the perfect cover to eviscerate the Federal Government from the inside.

The appointment of so many very young, very right wing, very corporate friendly judges will cripple the Federal Government's regulatory abilities for decades. This is their backstop. A politically complicit judiciary, from the Supreme Court on down, will give them an extraordinary ability to affect ...read: "stop" or "kill"... legislation and regulation from the bench. Never underestimate their skill at playing "the long game"....

They will tolerate this abomination that is donald trump as long as it takes to fill every last judicial opening.

Good post! Let's try not to let this issue fall off the radar!!