• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    And that’s because a lot of them were appointed by trump because the Senate Republicans under Obama in his last term (when they got control of the Senate) held those seats open until the next Republican president was elected

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      11 months ago

      Which they will do again if Joe Biden is re-elected. Although he has managed to get a decent number of judges on the Federal bench.

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      11 months ago

      But these people are also very self-serving. They will look out for their own class, which is judges in this case. Even if they think that this particular judge is horrible, they will definitely back taking action to protect judges in general.