With the confirmation of Cory T. Wilson to a New Orleans circuit court, President Trump saw his 200th judicial nomination confirmation—a milestone that will likely have implications for longer than Trump is in office
two Supreme Court justices, two U.S. Court of International Trade judges, 143 district court judges and 53 appeals court judges who were confirmed.since Jimmy Carter, Senator Roger Wicker said Wednesday.
The spate of nominations and confirmations is part of a plan led by Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to put as many conservative judges into power as possible , when there’s a chance Trump could lose his bid for re-election or the GOP could lose their slight majority in the Senate.confirming judges is because nominations can be advanced in the Senate with no support from Democrats.across the U.S. for the first time in at least four decades, when President Ronald Reagan was in the White House.
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