Source: Chris Cioffi, ROLL CALL, 2/11/20


So far, filling the federal bench with conservative-approved judges has been relatively easy for President Donald Trump. Now comes the hard part — working with the opposition party. The Senate has confirmed 192 federal judges since Trump took office; most were from states with at least one Republican senator or circuit judges whose jurisdiction crosses many states. That’s important because home-state senators, regardless of their party affiliation, traditionally have been able to sign off on or block a judicial nomination through the Senate’s so-called blue slip process.

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