Trump could remake judiciary for '40 years' - with controversial picks

[DonViejo]

Senate Republicans are rallying behind Trump’s judicial nominees, including those considered unqualified or with explosive views.

By SEUNG MIN KIM 10/17/2017 05:05 AM EDT

President Donald Trump has nominated 50 candidates to lifetime appointments to the federal bench — including a man who asserted transgender children were evidence of “Satan’s plan,” one deemed unqualified by the American Bar Association and a handful of prolific bloggers.

And the GOP has unanimously stuck by Trump’s judges. Senate Republicans have cleared judicial nominees at a comparatively rapid clip this year — even as the conservative base has complained they’re not moving fast enough — and are planning to pick up the pace even more in the coming months.

Among the more eyebrow-raising judges is Charles Goodwin, who has been nominated to the federal bench in Oklahoma. He is the first judicial nominee since 2006 to earn a “not qualified” label from the American Bar Association, which has screened judicial candidates since the 1950s. But both of his Republican home-state senators, James Lankford and Jim Inhofe, say they’re still confident Goodwin is adequately qualified to serve on the bench and dismissed the ABA’s findings.

“He’s been a very solid jurist,” Lankford said. “We’re trying to find out the whys [of the ABA rating]. Of course, they’re very secretive about the process and why they make the decisions they do.”

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[dalton99a]

1. This is a serious long-term consequence of his seizure of our government

It deserves a lot more ink

[Joe941]

2. This is one of the most dangerous and damaging things tRump is doing...

I've posted on this subject a few times - it is horrible. Sadly it receives very little attention in the media and here as well.

[DetroitLegalBeagle]

3. My colleagues were just discussing this.

The 2016 election will have far reaching consequences for our legal system. It's not just the number of judges, but their age and views that are the problem. And I doubt trump even knows who 10% of these judges are. He is just nominating whoever the GOP wants, and for that reason alone I think they will stick with him to the end. They may lose seats later, but right now they can slant the judiciary and stack it deep with young ideologues who will hold the gavels for decades. Utterly terrible.

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. America is gone for 40 years or so. If you are gay, black, Asian, Muslim, Latino, educated,

reasonable, decent, this will be a hell hole for you.

[MineralMan]

4. That was always the risk of handing over federal government

to the Republicans. Some of us tried to shout that out prior to the 2016 election, because it was so dangerous. Sadly, not enough people understood or heard that message. Now, we're faced with the consequences. Will we learn? I hope so.

[Joe941]

5. It was stolen not handed over.

[MineralMan]

6. I know exactly what happened and it was preventable.

Eminently preventable.

[Joe941]

9. Even though robberies are preventable - it's still a crime.

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. Many who were yelled at are still alleging that if they arent happy with

candidate A they will do B.

In 2018.

yep

[treestar]

7. well you know there was no difference

between the Democrats and the Reupubjicans.

[Joe941]

8. I know a lot of people who say that. Sad.