39 confirmations on hundreds of vacancies.
There are currently 147 vacancies in the federal bench and only 80 candidates pending. And there are many, judges slated to retire in the next few years. As much as we’re concerned with GOP efforts to pack the bench. There’s also the more serious “judicial crisis” where in big chunks of the federal bench are just vacant.
So yeah they’ve managed to push through a bunch of unqualified and/or highly partisan judges. But Trump isn’t nominating fast enough. And Congress isn’t bringing them up for confirmation fast enough to keep pace with vacancies.
They created this situation in order to pack the bench. But as with most things our government is up to they can’t get their shit together to do evil properly.
http://www.uscourts.gov/judges-judgeships/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies
They were only able to do that, And obstruct Garland, because they controlled both houses of Congress. As they do now. But their margin there is slipping and it looks more and more possible to flip both houses in November.
They cant pack the bench if they don’t control the Senate. And given the infighting it might not be too practical if GOP senators in swing states start to worry more about challenges from the left. Than challenges from the right.
