The most successful early actor, Barack Obama, named Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court and nine lower-court judges who were confirmed. Trump is on pace to more than double the number of federal judges nominated by any president in his first year. Dubbed “polemicists in robes” in a headline on a piece by Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick, Trump’s nominees are strikingly . With the abolition of the filibuster, Trump’s nominees need only the votes of Republican senators to win confirmation. The pace and conservatism of Trump’s judicial nominees reflect his close alliance with a conservative group, the Federalist Society.

Source: Washington Post July 19, 2017 23:25 UTC