The resounding victories of the Democrats on Tuesday evening will soon put an end to the election of the president. that of Donald Trump most important achievements: the overhaul of the federal judicial system.
Democrats may even have some hope of chipping away at the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, depending on how many Senate seats they ultimately win and whether a vacancy arises.
Asset has already, during his two mandates, appointed nearly 300 judges who, collectively, will draw the federal bench on the right for a generation . Its second-term judges, in particular, have often these turned out to be outliers even among the conservative judiciary.
But the lame-duck president will be able to confirm few, if any, new judges once Democrats officially take over the Senate in January.
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