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Democrat Obstruction Leads to More Court Vacancies Than When Trump Took Office

  • Writer: Ashley Baker
    Ashley Baker
  • May 18, 2022
  • 1 min read

President Donald Trump greets, from left, Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Sonia Sotomayor, and Stephen Breyer after his State of the Union address Jan. 30 to a joint session of Congress. (Photo: Carlos Barria/Reuters /Newscom)

Senate Republicans blocked many Obama nominees, but primarily while they were in the majority, said Curt Levey, president of Committee for Justice, a conservative legal group.


“Trump started out with a historically high number [of court vacancies] and attrition has added to the high vacancies. And when you can’t keep up with retirements and deaths, you get an even bigger vacancy,” Levey told The Daily Signal in a phone interview.


“The biggest problem for Obama came during his last two years,” he said. “Now, Democrats don’t control the Senate. They are using a new tool to block judges...”


Read more in The Daily Signal.

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