Trump’s Most Enduring Legacy

Out next week: Dissent: The Radicalization of the Republican Party and Its Capture of the Court by Jackie Calmes.

Esquire has an excerpt: “Trump’s 226 appointments to the trial, appellate, and Supreme courts will stand as one of his foremost legacies, and all but certainly his most enduring: some appointees, mostly young and with life tenure, will be on the bench late into the twenty-first century.”

“Were Barrett to serve until her late eighties as Ginsburg did, she would be on the court until about 2060; Kavanaugh and Gorsuch could be there past 2050. Trump’s three justices in a single term are one more than Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton each named over two terms. He appointed fifty-four judges to the circuit courts—which are the final word on the overwhelming share of appeals, since the high court accepts few—just one less than Obama over eight years.”