At this point Biden appoints most federal judges since JFK.

Doesn't matter. The Republicans love to judge shop for their grievances (there's always a Trump judge in Texas or somewhere), plus they own the Supreme Court.

 

Thanks to Mitch for dropping the filibuster on judge appointments. And thanks to republicans for running such horrible candidates democrats were able to keep the majority.

 

Trump ended up appointing almost 250 judges in total so I'm not sure a halftime score on this is a relevant fact at all.

 

I don't know why you think people like Herschel Walker were horrible candidates.

 

Actually you don't understand the full context on that. That's a talking point

 

Glenn Grothman is complaining that there's not enough straight white Christian males being appointed by Biden

 

Good for him. Hopefully he gets a chance to select a couple more supremes.

 

This is true. It matters. But as long as Republican politicians control SCOTUS, it doesn't matter enough.

 

They are overloading the blue states. Nominations for judges that are from a state with at least one Republican senator are few and far between

 

But it's only politically motivated when one side does it I assume?

 

I know all those facts about and 100s more. That is about 2% of the relevant facts on the judicial wars that go back decades.

 

yep. Plus Dr oz. Maga candidates. GOP can thank trump and his endorsements for losing senate majority. And now here comes the judges.

 

Democrats didn't take the Senate until 2021, so no compromise judges were appointed during Trump's term.

 

Democratic senates confirmed more than a dozen Republican SCOTUS appointees in the post-war era. The very first time the shoe was on the other foot, McConnell refused to even give the Democratic appointee a hearing. He likewise blocked essentially all lower court Obama appointees while in the minority.

You don't think the Republicans have any responsibility for this?

 

Mitch can be awesome when he wants to be.

 

Okay, but it's the Democrat's fault. They refused to confirm a man who characterized the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as "unsurpassed ugliness" (Bork), insisting on a more reasonable pick (whom they confirmed), and made Clarence Thomas have to answer for some of his sexual harassment (before confirming him).