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Trump's court takeover

This series examines the historic pace and nature of Trump’s remaking of the federal courts and the conservative agenda it will usher in on a range of issues, from voting rights to climate and from healthcare to criminal justice

1 May 2020

  • Inside three circuits that Trump has remade

    How Trump has tipped the scales in America's most powerful courts

    Tom McCarthy examines how three appeals courts are becoming more conservative with the arrival of judges picked by Trump

30 April 2020

  • % of federal judges confirmed under President Trump who were POC

    Datablog: Trump's courts takeover is male and white

  • Progressives have called Trump’s appointees ‘some of the most extreme judges we’ve ever seen’.

    Meet some of Trump’s most conservative judicial picks

29 April 2020

  • Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks with Judge Justin Walker during a Senate hearing for several judicial nominations, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 31, 2019. (Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times)<br>Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks with Judge Justin Walker during a Senate hearing for several judicial nominations, on Capitol Hill in Washington, July 31, 2019. Walker, a McConnell protégé, has been nominated by President Donald Trump for the influential United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, touching off what is likely to be a contentious confirmation fight in the Senate.

    Trump is seizing the courts – only a Democratic win in November can stop him

    Trump’s transformation of the federal judiciary means the stakes have never been higher in an election than they are for Democrats

28 April 2020

  • Donald Trump<br>FILE - In this April 24, 2020, file photo President Donald Trump looks on during the signing of a coronavirus aid package to direct funds to small businesses, hospitals, and testing, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

    Why has Trump appointed so many judges - and how did he do it?

    Trump promised in 2016 to fill the courts with conservative judges – signaling to evangelical Christians and others he was a safe pick
  • The U.S. Capitol is seen from the U.S. Supreme Court, as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues in Washington, U.S., April 27, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

    Trump's judges are a giant step backward for America

    Shira A Scheindlin
    After three years of Trump’s appointments, the federal judiciary is 73% white and 66% male, but it will be even more male and pale by the end of his term
  • Trump’s judges are remaking US courts.

    Trump's judges: a revolution to create a new conservative America

    The president’s judicial appointments have been a quieter project than most of his flamboyant presidency, but will have longer-lasting impacts on healthcare, voting rights, criminal justice and the climate
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