"What we need to do is stop the Supreme Court from sliding toward being viewed as a nakedly political institution. In time, the more conservative justices began to retire, and Roosevelt had his chance to appoint his own justices. "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges," he said. Democrats remain angry over Senate Majority Leader McConnell's action in 2016 blocking consideration of Obama's choice of a successor to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Supreme Court justices are appointed for life, as are lower court judges, according to the terms of the US Constitution.

Source: CNN March 11, 2019 19:18 UTC