Sam Seder
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Dems Keep Bringing Knives To GOP Judicial Gun Fights
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January 13, 2018
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6:28Now PlayingIn this Majority Report clip, Democrats don't seem too fight nearly as hard as Republicans when it comes to the courts. (Possibly because big money Democratic donors kinda want it that way.)
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"“This will be the single most important legacy of the Trump administration,” Democratic Sen. Chris Coons of Delaware told Business Insider’s Allan Smith. “They will quickly be able to put judges on circuit courts all over the country, district courts all over the country, that will, given their youth and conservatism, have a significant impact on the shape and trajectory of American law for decades.” Trump has the power, Coons said, to bring about “a wholesale change among the federal judiciary.”
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How many judges, exactly? Calabresi has his eye on three distinct categories. First, he’d like to double or perhaps triple the number of appeals court (i.e., circuit court) judges, who are second only in power to the Supreme Court. Trump could then appoint at least as many appeals court judges as all other presidents combined. Second, he wants to add 185 trial (district court) judgeships, which would bring Trump’s appointments to 40 percent of the total. Third, he’d like to replace 158 nonpartisan, agency-appointed administrative law judges (ALJs) with Trump-appointed judges with lifetime tenure. These come from 20 different executive branch regulatory agencies —the EPA, FCC, SEC, etc. — but almost half come from just two: the Department of Labor (41) and the National Labor Relations Board (34), both of which look out for the rights of workers, whom Trump has a long history of exploiting. Allowing this president to appoint these judges would be a classic case of the fox guarding the henhouse."*
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