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They succeeded in preventing judges from being appointed. Trump weakened regulatory authorities more than any other president.
by roflyear 3y ago
They succeeded in preventing judges from being appointed. Trump weakened regulatory authorities more than any other president.
- rayiner 3y agoObama appointed more federal judges than Bush: https://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/barack-obama-george-w-bush-judge-confirmations-105388 https://www.politico.com/story/2014/04/barack-obama-george-w... (As of April 2014: “Over the course of his presidency so far, Obama has nominated 301 judges and gotten 237 confirmed. By this point in his presidency, Bush had nominated 267 judges and had 234 of them confirmed.”). Remember that Democrats controlled the Senate for all but the last two years of the Obama presidency. Republicans weren’t in much of a position to block his judicial appointments. There is of course Garland, a rare show of GOP competence. But even for the Supreme Court judicial appointments are contentious. Kennedy was Reagan’s third pick for that seat. He went on to be a liberal squish that voted to uphold Roe, etc.