Source: Allison Stevens, NC POLICY WATCH, 1/6/20

 The GOP-controlled U.S. Senate heads into 2020 with few major legislative victories but a significant one on the judicial front: a dramatic reshaping of the federal bench. Over the past three years, the Senate has confirmed 185 of President Trump’s judicial nominees, more than any of the last five presidents at the same time in their presidencies. That tally includes a raft of nominees approved just before lawmakers left Capitol Hill for the holiday recess, including UNC law professor Richard Myers II’s confirmation to North Carolina’s Eastern District, previously the longest running vacancy in the federal court system.

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