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Only the Senate approves judicial appointments. The Presidency and the Senate are the least representative elected institutions. Trump lost the popular vote qui
by colmmacc 2y ago
Only the Senate approves judicial appointments. The Presidency and the Senate are the least representative elected institutions. Trump lost the popular vote quite considerably, twice, and the Senators who approved his appointments represent an even smaller minority of the USA. It's hard to paint judicial appointments as democratically representative.
Beyond that, in most advanced democracies, it is a norm that judicial appointments are apolitical. Often there are non-partisan judicial appointments commissions and other processes used to suggest nominations, and the norm is that these processes are followed.